Jean-Louis Biget Explained

Jean-Louis Biget
Birth Date:1937 5, df=y
Birth Place:Deux-Sèvres, France
Nationality:French
Occupation:Historian

Jean-Louis Biget (26 May 1937 – 21 March 2024) was a French historian who specialized in the Middle Ages.[1]

Biography

Born in Deux-Sèvres on 26 May 1937, Biget graduated from the in 1957.[2] He became a professor at the and the École normale supérieure de Lyon. He specialized in the history of the medieval Languedoc region, notably the village of Albi. He also studied Catharism and other Christian heresies, works which were expanded on by the likes of R. I. Moore and Mark Gregory Pegg. He served as Secretary-General of the Comité historique de Fanjeaux and published in the scholarly journal . In 1994, after the death of, he was editor-in-chief of the journal until 2004. He was a member of the Goods Committee of the when it was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.[3]

Jean-Louis Biget died on 21 March 2024, at the age of 86.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. News: 23 March 2024. Carnet noir : l’historien Jean-Louis Biget nous a quittés. French. La Dépêche du Midi. 27 March 2024.
  2. Web site: Jean-Louis BIGET – ENS Saint-Cloud – 1957 – concours Lettres. École normale supérieure de Lyon. French.
  3. Web site: Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne. UNESCO. French.
  4. News: de Buzon. Christine. 22 March 2024. Disparition de Jean-Louis Biget (1937-2024). French. École normale supérieure de Lyon. 27 March 2024.
  5. Web site: Le Livre des sentences de l'inquisiteur Bernard Gui.. Cairn.info. French.
  6. Web site: Préface à Jean-Louis Biget, « Église, dissidences et société dans l'Occitanie médiévale », études réunies par Julien Théry, Lyon : CIHAM Éditions, 2020, p. 9-12. Academia.edu. French.