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{{infobox Person | name = Philippe Contamine | image = Philippe Contamine.jpg | caption = Philippe Contamine in 2016 | birth_date = {{birth date|1932|05|07|df=yes}} | birth_place = Metz, France | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|01|26|1932|05|07|df=yes}} | death_place = 14th arrondissement of Paris, France | education = Lycée Hoche | alma_mater = University of Paris }}
'''Philippe Contamine''' (7 May 1932 – 26 January 2022) was a French historian of the Middle Ages who specialised in military history and the history of the nobility. ==Life== Contamine was a president of the ''Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres'', the ''Société de l'histoire de France'', and the ''Societé des Antiquaires de France''. He taught at the Université de Nancy, the Paris Nanterre University at Nanterre and Paris-Sorbonne University.
He was an officer of the Legion of Honour{{citation needed|date= August 2023}} and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Royal Historical Society Annual Newsletter 2022 |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/05181756/RHS-Annual-newsletter-2022-online-with-links-single-pages-4-MB-3.pdf |access-date=February 27, 2024 |pages=34}}</ref>
He died on 26 January 2022, at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite news |title=L'historien Philippe Contamine est mort |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2022/01/27/l-historien-philippe-contamine-est-mort_6111214_3382.html |access-date=27 January 2022 |newspaper=Le Monde |date=27 January 2022}}</ref>
== Select bibliography == * ''Guerre, État et Société à la Fin du Moyen Âge. Études sur les armées des rois de France, 1337-1494 (doctoral thesis, Paris, 1972)'' * ''La Guerre au Moyen-Âge (1980)'' * ''La France et l'Angleterre pendant la guerre de Cent Ans'', (Hachette, 1982). * ''Guerre et Société en France, en Angleterre et en Bourgogne XIVe et XVe siècles'' (Lille, 1991) * ''Histoire Militaire de la France'' vol.1 (Paris, 1992) * 'The Soldiery in Late Medieval Society', in ''French History'' 8 (1994) * ''La noblesse au royaume de France, de Philippe le Bel à Louis XII (1997)'' * ''Histoire de la France politique. I, Le Moyen Âge, 481-1514, le roi, l'Église, les grands, le peuple (2002)''
== References == {{Reflist}} * [http://www.aibl.fr/fr/membres/academ/contamine.html Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214050720/http://www.aibl.fr/fr/membres/academ/contamine.html |date=14 February 2012 }} at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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