Michel Kaplan (born 15 April 1946) is a French medieval historian,
docteur d'État
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, professor emeritus and former president of
Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
He is a
Byzantinist specialising in
history of mentalities, rural space and
hagiography
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of the
Eastern Roman Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
.
Career
In his early years, Kaplan followed the courses taught by
Paul Lemerle. He began his career as an assistant professor and then lecturer at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), where he defended his
thèse d'état (doctoral dissertation) in 1987. He then became a professor of medieval history at Paris I since 1988 and had been president of this university from 1999 to 2004. Since 2003, his research had encompassed the history of Byzantine mentalities.
He retired from his job in 2015. On 13 November 2018, a lecture given by Kaplan took place at the
Athens Concert Hall in Greece.
Publications
* ''Les Propriétés de la Couronne et de l'Église dans l'Empire byzantin, V
e-VI
e siècles : documents'', Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976.
* ''Le Proche-Orient médiéval : des Barbares aux Ottomans'', Paris, Hachette, 1978, nouv. éd. 1988, 1990, 1997, 2003 et 2006 (avec
Alain Ducellier
Alain Ducellier (5 May 1934 – 29 September 2018) was a French historian and professor emeritus at Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail who specialized in Byzantine studies and Christianity in the middle east. He was the author or editor of more tha ...
et Bernadette Martin).
* ''Tout l'or de Byzance'', collection «
Découvertes Gallimard
(, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an editorial collection of illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in pocket format. The books are concise introductions to pa ...
» (nº 104), série Histoire. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1991.
* ''Les hommes et la terre à Byzance du VI
e au XI
e siècle : propriété et exploitation du sol'', Publications de la Sorbonne, 1992.
* ''Les Saints et leur sanctuaire à Byzance : textes, images et monument'', Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1993 (avec Catherine Jolivet-Lévy et Jean-Pierre Sodini).
* ''La Chrétienté orientale, du début du VII
e siècle au milieu du XI
e siècle. Textes et documents'', Paris, SEDES, 1996 (avec Marie-France Auzépy et Bernadette Martin-Hisard).
* ''La Chrétienté byzantine, du début du VIIe siècle au milieu du XI
e siècle : images et reliques, moines et moniales, Constantinople et Rome'', Paris, SEDES, 1997.
* ''Le Moyen Âge'', Paris, Bréal, 2000 (tome I : IV
e-X
e siècles, tome II : XI
e-XV
e siècles) (dir. Michel Kaplan, auteurs : Michel Zimmermann, Christophe Picard).
* ''Le Sacré et son inscription dans l'espace à Byzance et en Occident : études comparée'', Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2001 (direction).
* ''Monastères, images, pouvoirs et société à Byzance'', Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006 (codirection avec Paule Pagès).
* ''Byzance : villes et campagnes'', Paris, Picard, 2006 (recueil d'articles).
* With A. Ducellier, ''Byzance : IV
e-XV
e siècle'', Paris, Hachette, 2006.
* ''Byzance'', Paris, Les Belles lettres, 2007.
* ''Pouvoirs, Église et sainteté : essais sur la société byzantine'', Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011 (recueil d'articles).
* ''Le Moyen Âge en Orient : Byzance et l'islam'' (avec A. Ducellier, B. Martin, F. Micheau), Paris, Hachette, 2012.
* ''Pourquoi Byzance ? : Un empire de onze siècles'', Paris, Gallimard, 2016.
References
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1946 births
Living people
French Byzantinists
20th-century French historians
21st-century French historians