Alain Demurger
Encyclopedia
Alain Demurger is a modern French
historian
, and a leading specialist of the history of the Knights Templar
and the Crusades
.
Alain Demurger is honorary maître de conférences at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He specializes in the history of the Crusades, the history of the religious orders, and the state of France at the end of the Middle Ages.
Demurger has been praised as the author of a good general survey on the Knights Templar, in Malcolm Barber
's book The New Knighthood (p. 397): "There are good general surveys, by Marie-Louise Bulst-Theile, Sacrae Domus Militiae Templi Hierosolymitani Magistri (1974), and Alain Demurger, Vie et mort de l'ordre du Temple" (Life and Death of the Order of the Temple).
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, and a leading specialist of the history of the Knights Templar
Knights Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon , commonly known as the Knights Templar, the Order of the Temple or simply as Templars, were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders...
and the Crusades
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem...
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Alain Demurger is honorary maître de conférences at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He specializes in the history of the Crusades, the history of the religious orders, and the state of France at the end of the Middle Ages.
Demurger has been praised as the author of a good general survey on the Knights Templar, in Malcolm Barber
Malcolm Barber
Malcolm Charles Barber is a British scholar of medieval history, described as the world's leading living expert on the Knights Templar. He is considered to have written the two most comprehensive books on the subject, The Trial of the Templars and The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the...
's book The New Knighthood (p. 397): "There are good general surveys, by Marie-Louise Bulst-Theile, Sacrae Domus Militiae Templi Hierosolymitani Magistri (1974), and Alain Demurger, Vie et mort de l'ordre du Temple" (Life and Death of the Order of the Temple).
Military orders
- Chevaliers du Christ, les ordres religieux militaires au Moyen Âge, Le Seuil, 2002, ISBN 202049888X, 416 pages.
Ordre of the Temple
- Vie et mort de l'ordre du Temple, 1120-1314, Edition Nathan, Paris, 1998, ISBN 2020208156, 448 pages.
- Jacques de MolayJacques de MolayJacques de Molay was the 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, leading the Order from 20 April 1292 until it was dissolved by order of Pope Clement V in 1312...
: le crépuscule des templiers, Biographie Payot, Paris, 2002, ISBN 9782228896283, 396 pages. - Les Templiers. Une chevalerie chrétienne au Moyen Âge, Le Seuil, 2005, ISBN 20200669412
- Les Templiers, Editions Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2007, ISBN 2877479552
Crusades
- La croisade au Moyen Âge. Idée et pratiques, Paris, F. Nathan, (Coll. 128), 1998.
- Brève histoire des Ordres religieux-militaires [Guide aide-mémoire], Gavaudun, Ed. Fragile. 1997.
- Croisades et croisés au Moyen Âge, Champs Flammarion, Paris 2006, ISBN 9782080801371
Middle ages
- Nouvelles histoires de la France médiévale. Tome 5 : Temps de crises. Temps d'espoirs. Points Seuil, Paris, 1990.
- L'Occident médiéval : XIII-XV siècle, Hachette Education, collection « Les fondamentaux - histoire géographie », 2004.
Articles
- « La Famille Jouvenel. Quelques questions sur un tableau », Annuaire-Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de France, 1997, p. 39-56.
- « Trésor des Templiers, trésor du roi. Mise au point sur les opérations financières des templiers », dans Pouvoir et Gestion, Toulouse, Presses de l'Université des Sciences sociales, 1997, p. 73-86.
- « Le religieux de Saint-Denis et la croisade », dans Saint-Denis et la royauté. Mélanges offerts à Bernard Guenée, Actes du Colloque international en l'honneur de B. Guenée. Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1999, pp. 181–196.
- « Les templiers à Auxerre », dans P. Boucheron et Jacques Chiffoleau, Religion et société urbaine au Moyen Age. Etudes offertes à Jean-Louis Biget, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2000, p. 301-312.
- « Pour trois mille livres de dette : Geoffroy de Sergines et le Temple », dans La présence latine en Orient au Moyen Âge, Paris, Centre historique des Archives Nationales, 2000, p. 67-76.
- « De Jérusalem à la Baltique, les chevaliers Teutoniques », Clio.fr, avril 2002
- Les Templiers : Guerriers du Pape
Video
- Les Templiers partent en croisade, émission "C'est pas sorcier", France Télévision http://www.cestpassorcier.com/