Philippe Contamine
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Education | University of Paris |
Philippe Contamine (born 7 May 1932 in Metz) is a French historian of the Middle Ages who specialises in military history and the history of the nobility.
Contamine is a past president of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, the Société de l'histoire de France, and the Societé des Antiquaires de France. He taught at the Université de Nancy, the Université de Paris X at Nanterre and Université de Paris IV (Paris-Sorbonne). He is an officer of the Légion d’Honneur and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Select bibliography[]
- Guerre, État et Société à la Fin du Moyen Âge. Études sur les armées des rois de France, 1337-1494 (doctoral thesis, Paris, 1972)
- La Guerre au Moyen-Âge (1980)
- La France et l'Angleterre pendant la guerre de Cent Ans, (Hachette, 1982).
- Guerre et Societie en France, en Angleterre et en Bourgogne XIVe et XVe siecle (Lille, 1991)
- Histoire Militaire de la France vol.1 (Paris, 1992)
- 'The Soldiery in Late Medieval Society', in French History 8 (1994)
- La noblesse au royaume de France, de Philippe le Bel à Louis XII (1997)
- Histoire de la France politique. I, Le Moyen Âge, 481-1514, le roi, l'Église, les grands, le peuple (2002)
References[]
- Biography at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Categories:
- 1932 births
- Living people
- French historians
- Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- French medievalists
- University of Paris alumni
- Nancy-Université faculty
- University of Paris faculty
- People from Metz
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society