André Vauchez
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André Vauchez FBA (born 24 July 1938, Thionville) is a French medievalist specialising in the history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome. His thesis, defended in 1978, was published in English as Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages in 1987 and has become a standard reference work.[1]
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, 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 in 2015.[2]
Bibliography
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Books
- As author
- La spiritualité du Moyen Âge occidental VIIIe–XIIIe (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 [English 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)[3]
- 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
- Acocella, Joan (14 January 2013). "Rich man, poor man : the radical visions of St. Francis". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 43. pp. 72–77. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
References
- ^ Sainthood in the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. 17 February 2005. ISBN 978-0-521-61981-3.
- ^ "British Academy Fellowship reaches 1,000 as 42 new UK Fellows are welcomed". 16 July 2015.
- ^ Le Magazine Littéraire, 22 novembre 2010 Fil des lettres - Le prix Chateaubriand 2010 couronne André Vauchez - Le Magazine Littéraire Archived 1 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- 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