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Professor Dominique Barthélemy FBA

French medieval history 900-1300; charters and narrative sources as evidence for social and religious history; war, justice and society; serfdom and nobility; chivalry; peace of God, ordeals, miracle stories
Headshot of Professor Dominique Barthélemy FBA
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2025
Subjects
Medieval studies
Sections
Medieval Studies
Website
https://centrerolandmousnier.cnrs.fr/annuaire/fiche_personnelle_dominique_barthelemy/

Summary

Professor Barthélemy has taught many years in the Sorbonne and is now retired (but continues to teach in other contexts). He is a member, since 2020, of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. He has provided two monographic studies, on the lordship of Coucy and on the county of Vendôme. He took special attention to war and justice, and to religion as well, rejecting the so called feudal revolution of the Year 1000, in favour of a feudal reproduction.

For his study of this social process he uses carefully some suggestions of social anthropology. His main purpose is to take account of codes and limits in feudal war and of a survival of feudal justice. His work on the origins and beginnings of chivalry owes many to Maurice Keen and John Gillingham and is mainly based on new insights in Norman chronicles. He is now finishing a book on diocesan peaces and Truce of God.

Current post

Sorbonne Université and École pratique des hautes études Professor Emeritus

Previous post

Sorbonne Université Professor

2000 - 2022

École pratique des hautes études Directeur d’études

1994 - 2022

Université Paris XII- Val de Marne Professor

1992 - 2000

Université Paris IV Sorbonne Assistant and maître de conférences

1979 - 1992

Publications

Miracles de l’an mil

Dominique Barthélemy - Published in 2023

La bataille de Bouvines, histoire et légendes

Dominique Barthélemy - Published in 2028, 2nd ed. 2024

Nouvelle histoire des Capétiens 987-1214

Dominique Barthélemy - Published in 2012

La chevalerie

Dominique Barthélemy - Published in 2007, 2nd ed., 2012

La mutation de l’an mil a-t-elle eu lieu?

Dominique Barthélemy - Published in 1997, English translation 'The Serf, the Knight and the Historian', 2009

La société dans le comté de Vendôme, de l’an mil au XIVe siècle

Dominique Barthélemy - Published in 1993

Les deux âges de la seigneurie banale, Coucy (milieu XIe-milieu XIIIe siècle)

Dominique Barthélemy - Published in 1984, 2nd ed., 2000

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