Jean Richard (historian)
Jean Barthélémy Richard was a French historian, who specialized in medieval history. He was an authority on the Crusades, and his work on the crusades has been qualified as "unsurpassed". Richard was a member of the Institut de France. He was President of the prestigious Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002. He was born in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France in February 1921. Richard died in January 2021 in Dijon, two weeks shy of his 100th birthday.
Publications
- Le comté de Tripoli sous la dynastie toulousaine , 1945
- Les ducs de Bourgogne et la formation du duché XIe-XIVe siècle, 1954
- Le cartulaire de Marcigny-sur-Loire , 1957
- Histoire de la Bourgogne, 1957
- Chypre sous les Lusignans. Documents chypriotes des Archives du Vatican , 1962
- Simon de Saint-Quentin. Histoire des Tartares, 1965
- L'esprit de la croisade, 1969
- La papauté et les missions d'Orient au Moyen Âge, 1977
- Histoire de la Bourgogne, 1978
- Les récits de voyages et de pèlerinages, 1981
- Le livre des remembrances de la Secrète du Royaume de Chypre , 1983
- Saint Louis, roi d'une France féodale, soutien de la Terre Sainte, 1983The Crusades: c. 1071 - c. 1291, Cambridge University Press,, translated by Jean BirrellHistoire des croisades, Fayard,