Jean Flori
| Jean Flori | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 April 1936 Lillebonne, France |
| Died | Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day Carnac, France |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic background | |
| Doctoral advisor | Georges Duby |
| Academic work | |
Jean Flori (7 April 1936 – 18 April 2018) was a French medieval historian. He was a research director for the National Center for Scientific Research,[1] and the author of books about chivalry and the Crusades.[2] A student of Georges Duby, he is one of the twentieth century's "major historian[s] of chivalry".[3]
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Biography
The son of a leather worker and a school principal, Jean Flori began engineering studies at the École Breguet in Paris. He ended his studies just before graduation to turn to teaching. Having become a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he began studying theology at the Adventist Seminary in Collonges-sous-Salève while teaching mathematics at the institution's secondary school.6 Having become a theology professor in 1964, he simultaneously began studying medieval history at the Grenoble faculty. He obtained his title in 1968. In 1970, he met Professor Georges Duby, who was to become his thesis director.
His state thesis was entitled: Chivalry and chivalric ideology. A Study of the Formation of the Concept of Chivalry to the Early Thirteenth Century.
He was awarded a doctorate in literature and humanities (Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1981) and is director of research at the CNRS (Center for Advanced Studies in Medieval Civilization of Poitiers). He was a specialist in the tenth and eleventh centuries and in warrior ideologies (chivalry, crusades, holy war, jihad, eschatology)
Jean Flori died in Carnac.
Works
- Évolution ou création? (1974; with Henri Rasolofomasoandro)
- L'Idéologie du glaive. Préhistoire de la chevalerie (1983; preface by Georges Duby)
- L'Essor de la chevalerie, XIe et XIIIe siècles (1986; preface by Léopold Genicot)
- La Première Croisade. L'occident chrétien contre l'Islam (1992; 1997; 2001)
- La Chevalerie en France au Moyen Âge (1995)
- Chevaliers et chevalerie au Moyen Âge (1998; 2004)
- La Chevalerie (1998)
- Croisade et chevalerie (1998)
- Brève histoire de la chevalerie (1999)
- Pierre l'Ermite et la première croisade (1999; awarded the History and Sociology Prize in 2000 by the Académie française)
- Richard Cœur de lion, le roi-chevalier (1999)
- La Guerre sainte. La formation de l'idée de croisade dans l'Occident chrétien (2001)
- Les Croisades (2001)
- Philippe Auguste, la naissance de l'État monarchique (2002; 2007)
- Guerre sainte, jihad, croisade. Violence et religion dans le christianisme et l'islam (2002)
- Aliénor d’Aquitaine. La reine insoumise (2004)
- L'Islam et la fin des Temps. L'interprétation prophétique des invasions musulmanes dans la chrétienté médiévale (2007)
- Bohémond d'Antioche, chevalier d'aventure (2007)
- La Croix, la tiare et l'épée (2007)
- La Fin du monde au Moyen Âge (2008)
- Les Croisades (2009)
- Chroniqueurs et propagandistes. Introduction critique aux sources de la Première Croisade (2010)
- Prêcher la croisade. Communication et propagande, XIe – XIIIe siècles (2012)
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