Jean Richard (historian)

Jean Barthélémy Richard (born 7 February 1921) is a French historian, who specializes in medieval history. He is an authority on the Crusades, and his work on the Latin missions in Asia has been qualified as "unsurpassed".[1] Richard is a member of the Institut de France. He has been President of the prestigious Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002. He was born in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.[2]

Publications
  • Le comté de Tripoli sous la dynastie toulousaine (1102-1187), 1945
  • Le royaume latin de Jérusalem, 1953
  • 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
  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
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References
  • Jackson, Peter. 2005. The Mongols and the West, 1221-1410. The Medieval World. Harlow, England; New York: Pearson Longman.


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