Jean Flori (7 April 1936 – 18 April 2018) was a French medieval historian. He was a research director for the
National Center for Scientific Research,
and the author of books about
chivalry
Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct that developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220. It is associated with the medieval Christianity, Christian institution of knighthood, with knights being members of ...
and the
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Papacy during the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and its surrounding t ...
.
A student of
Georges Duby, he is one of the twentieth century's "major historian
of chivalry".
References
1936 births
2018 deaths
French medievalists
20th-century French historians
21st-century French historians
People from Lillebonne
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