Philippe Wolff Explained

Philippe Wolff (1913–2001) was a French medievalist who specialised in the economic and social history of Languedoc.

Life and career

Wolff was born in Montmorency, Seine-et-Oise, on 2 September 1913.^[1] He graduated licentiate of history and geography in 1934, and doctor of letters in 1939. At the beginning of the Second World War he was a liaison officer with the British Expeditionary Force in France.^[1] From 1945 to 1974 he taught, from 1953 as a full professor, at the Université de Toulouse II. From 1968 to 1980 he served as president of the International Commission for the History of Towns. On 9 February 1973 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.^[1] He was also a member of the Royal Historical Society, the Institute for Catalan Studies, the Medieval Academy of America and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. He died in Andorra on 3 September 2001.^[1]

1954: Commerces et marchands de Toulouse, vers 1350-1450
1960: with F. Mauro, Histoire du travail. II, L’âge de l’artisanat, Ve-XVIIIe siècles
1962: with J. Dieuzaide, Voix et images de Toulouse
1965: with P. Gérard and E. Magnou, Les cartulaires des Templiers de Douzens
1968: The Awakening of Europe (Pelican History of European Thought, 1)
1969: with G. Wiet and V. Elisseeff, Histoire du développement scientifique et culturel de l’Humanité. III, De 400 à 1300 après J.-C.
1971: Les origines linguistiques de l’Europe occidentale
1978: Regards sur le Midi médiéval
1980: (editor), Histoire du diocèse de Toulouse
1985: (editor), Histoire de Perpignan
1986: Automne du Moyen Âge ou Printemps des temps nouveaux? L'économie européenne aux XIVe et XVe siècles
1993: Histoire internationale du vouvoiement

"The 1391 Pogrom in Spain. Social Crisis or Not?", Past & Present, 50 (1971), pp. 4-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/650241