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Philippe Contamine

Philippe Contamine

French historian (1932–2022)

Philippe Contamine (7 May 1932 – 26 January 2022) was a French historian of the Middle Ages who specialised in military history and the history of the nobility.

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Life

Contamine was a 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 Paris Nanterre University at Nanterre and Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris-Sorbonne). He was an officer of the Legion of Honour[citation needed] and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1]

He died on 26 January 2022, at the age of 89.[2]

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 Société en France, en Angleterre et en Bourgogne XIVe et XVe siècles (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

  1. [1]
    "Royal Historical Society Annual Newsletter 2022" (PDF). p. 34. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  2. [2]
    "L'historien Philippe Contamine est mort". Le Monde. 27 January 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  • Biography at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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