Jean Richard (historian)

Jean Barthélémy Richard (7 February 1921 – 25 January 2021) was a French historian, who specialized in medieval history. He was an authority on the Crusades, and his work on the Latin missions in Asia has been qualified as "unsurpassed".^[1] Richard was a member of the Institut de France. He was President of the prestigious Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002. He was born in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France in February 1921.^[2] Richard died in January 2021, two weeks shy of his 100th birthday.^[3]

Publications

Le comté de Tripoli sous la dynastie toulousaine (1102-1187), 1945
Longnon, Jean (1953). "Le royaume latin de Jérusalem". Journal des Savants. 4 (1). Presses universitaires de France: 161–183. OCLC 1225909.
Les ducs de Bourgogne et la formation du duché XIe-XIVe siècle, 1954 (thèse)
Le cartulaire de Marcigny-sur-Loire (1045-1144), 1957 (thèse complémentaire)
Histoire de la Bourgogne, 1957
Chypre sous les Lusignans. Documents chypriotes des Archives du Vatican (XIVe et XVe siècles), 1962
Simon de Saint-Quentin. Histoire des Tartares, 1965
L'esprit de la croisade, 1969
La papauté et les missions d'Orient au Moyen Âge, 1977
Histoire de la Bourgogne, 1978 (dir.)
Les récits de voyages et de pèlerinages, 1981
Le livre des remembrances de la Secrète du Royaume de Chypre (1468-1469), 1983 (en coll. avec T. Papadopoullos)
Saint Louis, roi d'une France féodale, soutien de la Terre Sainte, 1983
The Crusades: c. 1071 - c. 1291 (1999), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-62566-1, translated by Jean Birrell
Histoire des croisades, Fayard, (1996)

Notes

^ "Richard's characteristically thorough examination of the Latin mission to Asia remains unsurpassed", Peter Jackson, "The Mongols and the West", p.2.
^ "Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres". Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
^ Décès de Jean Richard (prom. 1943)

References

Jackson, Peter. 2005. The Mongols and the West, 1221-1410. The Medieval World. Harlow, England; New York: Pearson Longman.

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[1] "Richard's characteristically thorough examination of the Latin mission to Asia remains unsurpassed", Peter Jackson, "The Mongols and the West", p.2.

[2] "Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres". Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2012.

[3] Décès de Jean Richard (prom. 1943)

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