André Vauchez
FBA (born 24 July 1938,
Thionville
Thionville (; ; ) is a city in the northeastern French Departments of France, department of Moselle (department), Moselle. The city is located on the left bank of the river Moselle (river), Moselle, opposite its suburb Yutz.
History
Thionvi ...
) is a French
medievalist
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Computer scientists and Mathematici ...
specialising in the
history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the
École normale supérieure
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...
and the École française de Rome. His
thesis
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, defended in 1978, was published in English as ''Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages'' in 1987 and has become a standard reference work.
Vauchez served as the director of medieval studies at the École française de Rome (1972–1979), master of studies at the
French National Centre for Scientific Research
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...
, and professor of medieval history at the
University of Rouen (1980–1982) and at the University of Paris X Nanterre (1983–1995). He was awarded the
Balzan Prize for Medieval History in 2013. Vauchez was elected as a
Corresponding Fellow of the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...
in 2015.
Bibliography
Books
;As author
* ''La spiritualité du Moyen Âge occidental VIII
e–XIII
e'' (''The spirituality of the medieval West''), Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1975.
*
La sainteté en Occident aux derniers siècles du Moyen Âge (1198-1431)', Rome, École française de Rome, 1981
nglish trans.: ''Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages'', Cambridge, 1987 and Italian trans.: ''La santità nel Medioevo'', Bologne, 1989
* ''Les laïcs au Moyen Âge'' (''The Laity in the Middle Ages''), Paris, Cerf, 1987.
* ''Saints, prophètes et visionnaires : le pouvoir du surnaturel au Moyen Âge'' (''Saints, prophets and visionaries: the power of the supernatural in the Middle Ages''), Paris, Albin Michel, 1999.
* ''François d'Assise'', Paris, Fayard, 2009 (
Prix Chateaubriand 2010)
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* ''Les hérétiques au Moyen Âge : suppôts de Satan ou chrétiens dissidents'', Paris, CNRS, 2014.
* ''
Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint'', Yale University Press, 2012. Translator Michael F. Cusato.
;As editor
* ''Histoire du christianisme'', Paris, Desclée, t. IV, V et VI, 1990–1993.
* ''Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Moyen Âge'', Paris, Cerf, 2 vol., 1997–1998.
* ''Christianisme : dictionnaire des temps, des lieux et des figures'', Paris, Le Seuil, 2010.
* ''Rome au Moyen Âge'', Riveneuve éditions, 2010.
Critical studies and reviews
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References
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People from Thionville
1938 births
Living people
French medievalists
20th-century French historians
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
French male non-fiction writers
Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
21st-century French historians