Olivier Guyotjeannin (born 13 March 1959,

Suresnes Suresnes () is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. Located in Hauts-de-Seine, from the centre of Paris, it had a population of 49,145 as of 2016. The nearest communes are Nanterre, Puteaux, Rueil-Malmaison, Saint-Cloud a ...

) is a French

medievalist The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vo ...

and diplomatist.

Career

Olivier Guyotjeannin graduated as archivist-

paleographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

from the

École Nationale des Chartes The École Nationale des Chartes (, literally National School of Charters) is a French ''grande école'' and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at ...

in 1981 with a thesis entitled ''La seigneurie des évêques de Beauvais et de Noyon (Xe-début du XIIIe)'' which earned him first place of his class. He was a member of the

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et ...

(1983–1986). First a curator of archives in

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Saint Pierre and Miquelon (), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (french: link=no, Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in t ...

, he was later appointed at the Archives nationales in Paris. In 1989, succeeding

Robert-Henri Bautier Robert-Henri Bautier (19 April 1922, Paris – 19 October 2010, Paris) was a French historian, archivist, and medievalist. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1986.Index biographique des me ...

, he was elected at the chair of institutions, archives and

diplomatics Diplomatics (in American English, and in most anglophone countries), or diplomatic (in British English), is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents: especially, historical documents. It focuses on the conventions, p ...

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

at the École des Chartes where he also taught

medieval Latin Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. Latin functione ...

Works

*1986: ''Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon'', Paris,

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*1987: ''Episcopus et comes : affirmation et déclin de la seigneurie épiscopale au nord du royaume de France : Beauvais-Noyon, Xe-début XIIIe'', Geneva: , (Mémoire et documents de l’École des chartes) *1992: ''Archives de l'Occident. Tome 1er, Le Moyen âge'' (éd.), Paris,

Fayard Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard ...

*1993: ''Les Cartulaires : actes de la Table ronde organisée par l'École nationale des chartes et le GDR 121 du CNRS, Paris, 5-7 December 1991'', Geneva : Droz (Mémoire et documents de l’École des chartes) (coll.) *1994: ''Diplomatique médiévale'', with vec Pycke et Tock, Turnhout, Brepols *1995: ''Salimbene de Adam : un chroniqueur franciscain'', Turnhout : Brepols *1996: ''Autour de Gerbert d'Aurillac, le pape de l'an mil : album de documents commentés'', Paris, École des chartes (with Emmanuel Poulle) *1996: ''Clovis chez les historiens'', Geneva, Librairie Droz (dir.) *1998: ''Les Sources de l'histoire médiévale'', Paris,

Le Livre de Poche Le Livre de Poche (literally "The Pocket Book") is the name of a collection of publications which first appeared on 9 February 1953 under the leadership of and published by the , a subsidiary of Hachette. In terms of its influence on the mainstr ...

*2000: ''Le Chartrier de l'abbaye prémontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250)'', Paris : École des chartes (éd. ; dir.) *2001: ''Conseils pour l'édition des textes médiévaux'', fasc. 1-2, Paris : CTHS (coord.) *2002: ''Terriers et plans-terriers du XIIIe au XVIIIe, actes du colloque de Paris, 23-25 septembre 1998'', Paris, Rennes, Geneva (codir.) *2002: ''Histoire de la France politique, Tome 1 : Le Moyen Age : Le roi, l'Église, les grands, le peuple 481-1514'', with

Philippe Contamine 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, t ...

and Régine Le Jan, Paris,

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as ''Le Seuil'', is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil' ...

*2003: ''La Langue des actes : actes du XIe Congrès international de diplomatique (Troyes, Thursday 11-Saturday 13 September 2003)''
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*2005: ''Atlas de l'histoire de France, La France médiévale, IXe-XVe siècle'', Autrement, Paris (coll.) 102 p. *2005: ''Le Formulaire d'Odart Morchesne'', Paris, École des chartes (éd. ; en coll.)

External links

Olivier Mattéoni and Olivier Guyotjeannin, séminaire de méthodologie

on Histoire pour tous
''Portrait Olivier Guyotjeannin, Diplomatique : définition et évolutions''
on Daily motion
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on CTHS
Olivier Guyotjeannin
on the site of the École Nationale des Chartes
On overinterpretation of medieval deeds. Some French examples around the year one thousand
by Olivier Guyotjeannin {{DEFAULTSORT:Guyotjeannin, Olivier École Nationale des Chartes alumni Academic staff of the École Nationale des Chartes 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians French medievalists People from Suresnes 1959 births Living people