André Vauchez
André Vauchez FBA is a French medievalist specialising in the history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome. His thesis, defended in 1978, was published in English as Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages in 1987 and has become a standard reference work.
Vauchez served as the director of medieval studies at the École française de Rome, master of studies at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and professor of medieval history at the University of Rouen and at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He was awarded the Balzan Prize for Medieval History in 2013. Vauchez was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.
Books
;As authorLa spiritualité du Moyen Âge occidental VIIIe–XIIIe, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1975., Rome, École française de Rome, 1981 .Les laïcs au Moyen Âge, Paris, Cerf, 1987.Saints, prophètes et visionnaires : le pouvoir du surnaturel au Moyen Âge, Paris, Albin Michel, 1999.François d'Assise, Paris, Fayard, 2009 Les hérétiques au Moyen Âge : suppôts de Satan ou chrétiens dissidents, Paris, CNRS, 2014.Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint, Yale University Press, 2012. Translator Michael F. Cusato.;As editorHistoire du christianisme, Paris, Desclée, t. IV, V et VI, 1990–1993.Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Moyen Âge, Paris, Cerf, 2 vol., 1997–1998.Christianisme : dictionnaire des temps, des lieux et des figures, Paris, Le Seuil, 2010.Rome au Moyen Âge, Riveneuve éditions, 2010.