Philippe Contamine
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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.
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|date= August 2023}} and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.{{Cite news |title=Royal Historical Society Annual Newsletter 2022 |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/05181756/RHS-Annual-newsletter-2022-online-with-links-single-pages-4-MB-3.pdf |access-date=February 27, 2024 |pages=34}}
He died on 26 January 2022, at the age of 89.{{cite news |title=L'historien Philippe Contamine est mort |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2022/01/27/l-historien-philippe-contamine-est-mort_6111214_3382.html |access-date=27 January 2022 |newspaper=Le Monde |date=27 January 2022}}
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
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- [http://www.aibl.fr/fr/membres/academ/contamine.html Biography] at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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Category:20th-century French historians
Category:Officers of the Legion of Honour
Category:Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Category:University of Paris alumni
Category:Academic staff of Nancy-Université
Category:Academic staff of the University of Paris
Category:Fellows of the Royal Historical Society