Guy Bois (25 December 1934 – 8 June 2019) was a French Marxist historian. He was noted for his contributions to the history of

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, which have been widely translated.

Biography

Bois was professor of medieval history at the Université de Paris-I (in 1989) and the Université de Franche-Comté (in 1990), and president of the

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(also in 1990). He died on 8 June 2019, aged 84.

Works

* Bois, Guy, ''The Crisis of Feudalism: Economy and Society in Eastern Normandy c.1300-1550'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984), (trans. from ''Crise du féodalisme'', Références (Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques), 2 (Paris: Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1981), [first edn. ''Crise du féodalisme: économie rurale et démographie en Normandie orientale du début du 14e siècle au milieu du 16e siècle'', Cahiers de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 202 (Paris: Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1976), ) * Bois, Guy, ''The Transformation of the Year One Thousand: The Village of Lournand from Antiquity to Feudalism'', trans. by Jean Birrell (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), , 071903566X (pbk) (trans. from ''La mutation de l'an mil. Lournand, village mâconnais de l'Antiquité au féodalisme'' (París, Fayard, 1989)) * Bois, Guy, ''La grande dépression médiévale: XIVe-XVe siècles: le précédent d'une crise systémique'' (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000), * Bois, Guy, ''Une nouvelle servitude: essai sur la mondialisation'' (François-Xavier de Guibert, 2003),

References

1934 births 2019 deaths Historians of France French medievalists 20th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers {{France-historian-stub