Lucien Musset (26 August 1922 – 15 December 2004) was a French historian, specializing in the
Duchy of Normandy
The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and the Viking leader Rollo. The duchy was named for its inhabitants, the Normans.
From 1066 until 1204, as a result of the Norman c ...
and the history of the
Viking
Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden),
who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
s.
Biography
Born in
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine departme ...
, Musset served as a professor of history at the
University of Caen
The University of Caen Normandy (French: ''Université de Caen Normandie''), also known as Unicaen, is a public university in Caen, France.
History
The institution was founded in 1432 by John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, the first rector ...
.
Selected works
Musset's major works include:
* ''Les Peuples scandinaves au Moyen Âge'' (Scandinavian Peoples in the Middle Ages), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1951, 352 p.
* ''Les Invasions : les vagues germaniques'' (Invasions: The Germanic Waves), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965
* ''Les Invasions ; le second assaut contre l’Europe chrétienne VII
e−XI siècles'' (Invasions: The Second Assault Against Christian Europe, 7th – 11th Centuries), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965
* ''Nordica et normannica : recueil d’études sur la Scandinavie ancienne et médiévale, les expéditions des Vikings et la fondation de la Normandie'' (Nordica and Normannica: collection of essays on ancient and medieval Scandinavia, the Viking expeditions and the founding of Normandy), Société des études nordiques, Paris, 1997
* "Naissance de la Normandie" ("Birth of Normandy"), in Michel de Boüard (editor), ''Histoire de la Normandie'', Privat, Toulouse, 1970, p. 75-129 ()
See also
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Georges Dumézil
Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil (4 March 189811 October 1986) was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University, École pratique d ...
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Claude Lecouteux
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François-Xavier Dillmann
References
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1922 births
2004 deaths
Writers from Rennes
University of Caen Normandy faculty
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French historians
20th-century French male writers
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