Philippe Contamine | |
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![]() Philippe Contamine in 2016 | |
Born | |
Died | 26 January 2022 | (aged 89)
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.
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] and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1]
He died on 26 January 2022, at the age of 89.[2]