Noël Coulet (4 October 1932 – 15 January 2023) was a French academic and medieval historian.

Biography

Born on 4 October 1932, Coulet took preporatory classes at the , where he was notably taught by and

Marc Soriano Marc Soriano (7 July 1918, in Cairo – 18 December 1994) was a 20th-century French philosopher. After the death of his father, his family went to Italy. He stayed in Pisa between 1921 and 1927, then went to live in Paris. A pupil at Lycée Cond ...

. During his doctoral studies, he was a student of

Georges Duby Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of Franc ...

. After his thesis titled ''Aix-en-Provence, espace et relations d'une capitale, mi-XIVe - mi-XVe s.'', he researched

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

during the 14th and 15th Centuries and particularly focused on religious history. He was a professor emeritus of medieval history at the

University of Provence The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I (french: Université de Provence) was a public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of the Academy of ...

. Coulet died in

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

on 15 January 2023, at the age of 90.

Publications

*Ten articles published in ''Les Cahiers de Fangeaux'' *"Les jeux de la Fête Dieu d'Aix, une fête médiévale ?" (1981) *Les Templiers de Bayle au xiie siècle : un document inédit" (2004) *''Histoire de la Provence'' (with ) *''La Provence au Moyen Âge'' (with and , 2005) *''Histoire d'Aix-en-Provence'' (with , 2020)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coulet, Noel 1932 births 2023 deaths 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians University of Provence alumni Academic staff of the University of Provence