Charles-Edmond Perrin
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Charles-Edmond Perrin was a French medieval historian, a professor at the University of Strasbourg and then the Sorbonne
, and a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
, of which he became president.
Born in Lorraine
, he made a name above all for his basic research in archives concerning the feudal seigneurie in Lorraine and eastern France.
His intellectual biography of his former colleague at Strasbourg and Paris, Marc Bloch
, long delayed by Perrin's duties at the Sorbonne, was published in 1948. His most famous pupil was Georges Duby
, who absorbed and expanded Perrin's analytical techniques.
Selected works
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
, and a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French learned society devoted to the humanities, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France.-History:...
, of which he became president.
Born in Lorraine
Lorraine (région)
Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...
, he made a name above all for his basic research in archives concerning the feudal seigneurie in Lorraine and eastern France.
His intellectual biography of his former colleague at Strasbourg and Paris, Marc Bloch
Marc Bloch
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...
, long delayed by Perrin's duties at the Sorbonne, was published in 1948. His most famous pupil was Georges Duby
Georges Duby
Georges Duby was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages...
, who absorbed and expanded Perrin's analytical techniques.
Selected works
- Essai sur la fortune immobilière de l'abbaye alsacienne de Marmoutier aux 10e et 11e siècles, (Collection d'études sur l'histoire du droit et des institutions de l'Alsace, 10), 1935
- Recherches sur la seigneurie rurale en Lorraine d'après les plus anciens censiers (IXe-XIIe siècle) (Publications de la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Strasbourg, 17) 1935
- L' Allemagne, l'Italie et la Papauté de 1125 a 1250, 1949
- Trois provinces de l'Est: Lorraine, Alsace, Franche-Comté, 1957
- Seigneurie rurale en France et en Allemagne du début du IXe à la fin du XIIe siècle, 1966