Philippe Contamine

Philippe Contamine
Philippe Contamine in 2016
Born	(1932-05-07)7 May 1932 Metz, France
Died	26 January 2022(2022-01-26) (aged 89) 14th arrondissement of Paris, France
Education	Lycée Hoche
Alma mater	University of Paris

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 and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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

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

• Biography at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres