Philippe Contamine

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{{short description|French historian (1932–2022)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_place = Metz, France

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| death_place = 14th arrondissement of Paris, France

| education = Lycée Hoche

| alma_mater = University of Paris

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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