Pierre Riché (October 4, 1921 – May 6, 2019)[1] was a French historian specializing in the early Middle Ages and the year 1000 (French: An mil or An mille).
Biography
After studying at the
Faculté des lettres de Paris, he passed the
aggregation of history in 1948,[2] and taught at the high school of Constantine (Algeria) and at
Le Mans. In 1953, he was appointed assistant at the Sorbonne.
From 1957 to 1960 Pierre Riché taught as assistant professor in Tunis, before joining the
University of Rennes. In 1962, he obtained his doctorate[3] of 3 with a thesis on Education and culture in the barbaric West. He was then appointed professor at the
Faculty of letters of Nanterre in October 1967. In 1968, he founded the Center for Research on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. He retired in 1989.
Éducation et culture dans l'Occident barbare : s-VIe -VIIIe, Seuil, coll. «Points Histoire», 1995 (4th edition)
Césaire d'Arles, De l'Atelier, 1989
L'Europe barbare de 476 à 774, SEDES, Paris, 1989
Gerbert d'Aurillac : Le Pape de l'an mil, Fayard, 1987
Abbon de Fleury, un moine savant et combatif, Brepols, 2004
Grandeur et faiblesse de l'Église au Moyen Âge, Cerf, 2006
Des nains sur des épaules de géants : maître et élèves au Moyen Âge, Tallandier, 2006
C'était un autre millénaire, souvenir d'un professeur de la communale à Nanterre, Tallandier, 2008
References
^Philippe-Jean Catinchi (8 May 2019).
"L'historien Pierre Riché est mort" [The historian Pierre Riché is dead] (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 8 June 2019.