Philippe Contamine

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.

Philippe Contamine
Philippe Contamine in 2016
Born(1932-05-07)7 May 1932
Metz, France
Died26 January 2022(2022-01-26) (aged 89)
14th arrondissement of Paris, France
EducationLycée Hoche
Alma materUniversity of Paris

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 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. "Royal Historical Society Annual Newsletter 2022" (PDF). p. 34. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  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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