Pierre Toubert
{{short description|French historian (1932–2025)}}
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Pierre Toubert (29 November 1932 – 5 June 2025) was a French historian. He was a professor of medieval history at the University of Paris and the Collège de France. Focusing on medieval history, his most monumental work is Les structures du Latium médiéval : Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle à la fin du XIIe siècle (1973), in which he outlines an influential, in-depth study of incastellamento (in English, encastellation) in the Lazio region of Italy.
Life and career
Pierre Toubert was born on 29 November 1932.{{cite book |title=Toubert, Pierre (1932-....) forme internationale |url=http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120883763 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 February 2017}} He earned the agrégation in history and graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1958.{{cite news |last1=Offenstadt |first1=Nicolas |title=Le Moyen Age total de Pierre Toubert |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2005/02/17/le-moyen-age-total-de-pierre-toubert_398424_3260.html |access-date=22 February 2017 |work=Le Monde |date=17 February 2005}}{{cite web|title=Pierre Toubert|url=https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/chaire/pierre-toubert-histoire-de-occident-mediterraneen-au-moyen-age-chaire-statutaire/biography |website=Collège de France |access-date=6 June 2025}} He earned a PhD in 1972.
Toubert was an associate professor of history at the University of Paris in 1972–1973, and he became a full professor in 1973. He was also a professor of history at the Collège de France.
Toubert was inducted into the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1986. He won the Silver Medal from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in 1973, and the Prix Augustin Thierry from the Académie française in 1995.{{cite web |title=Prix Augustin Thierry |url=http://www.academie-francaise.fr/prix-augustin-thierry |website=Académie française |access-date=22 February 2017}} He became an officer of the National Order of Merit in 1999, and a commander in 2010.{{cite web |title=Décret du 14 mai 2010 portant promotion et nomination |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000022209538&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id |work=Legifrance |publisher=French Republic |access-date=22 February 2017}}
Works
- {{cite book |last1=Toubert |first1=Pierre |title=Les structures du Latium médiéval : Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle à la fin du XIIe siecle |date=1973 |publisher=École Française de Rome |location=Rome |oclc=483641091}}
- {{cite book |last1=Toubert |first1=Pierre|title=Études sur l'Italie médiévale |date=1976 |publisher=Variorum Collected Studies |location=London |isbn=9780902089914|oclc=615075416}}
- {{cite book |last1=Toubert |first1=Pierre |title=Histoire du haut Moyen Âge et de l'Italie médiévale |date=1987 |publisher=Variorum Collected Studies |location=London |isbn=9780860782001 |oclc=928206623}}
- {{cite book |last1=Toubert |first1=Pierre |title=Leçon inaugurale faite le vendredi 9 mars 1993, Collège de France, Chaire d'histoire de l'occident méditerranéen au moyen âge |date=1993 |publisher=Collège de France |location=Paris |isbn=9782722600096 |oclc=489616673}}
- {{cite book |last1=Barceló |first1=Miquel |last2=Toubert |first2=Pierre |author-link1=Miquel Barceló (writer) |title=L'incastellamento : actas de las reuniones de Girona (26-27 noviembre 1992) y de Roma (5-7 mayo 1994) |date=1998 |publisher=Ecole française de Rome |location=Rome |isbn=9788400077099 |oclc=496053026}}
- {{cite book |last1=Toubert |first1=Pierre |title=L'Europe dans sa première croissance : De Charlemagne à l'an mil|date=2004 |publisher=Fayard |location=Paris |isbn=9782702895115}}
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Category:École Normale Supérieure alumni
Category:20th-century French historians
Category:21st-century French historians
Category:Academic staff of the Collège de France
Category:Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Category:Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite
Category:Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America