Louis Halphen

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Louis Halphen (February 4, 1880 - October 7, 1950) was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career. He was noteworthy as the editor of a modern edition of the famous classic Einhard's "Vie de Charlemagne" (Paris, , 1947) , He was also known as being one of the general editors of the monumental series Peuples et civilisations,

[edit] Selected Published Books

  • Le comté d'Anjou au XIe siècle, 1906
    • review by S Fanning in Speculum, 1985 "...The essential works on Anjou in this period are Louis Halphen, Le comte d'Anjou au XIe siecle (Paris, 1906) JSTOR
  • La Conquête romaine (with A Piganiol,& P Sagnac (1926) - Presses universitaires de France
  • Charlemagne et l'empire carolingien, 1947
  • Études sur l'administration de Rome au Moyen Âge (751-1252). (1972) Multigrafica Editrice
    • translated into English as Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire (1977) North-Holland Pub. Co
    • translated into Spanish as Carlomagno y el imperio carolingio, Unión Tipográfica Editorial Hispano Americana (1955)
  • À travers l'histoire du Moyen âge, (1950) - Presses universitaires de France

[edit] References

  • S. Woolf, "Europe and its Historians" Contemporary European History (2003), 12: 323-337 Cambridge University Press
  • Edward R. Tannenbaum "French Scholarship in Modern European History: New Developments since 1945" The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep., 1957), pp. 246-252 JSTOR
  • Mélanges d'histoire du Moyen âge, dédiés à la mémoire de Louis Halphen : Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1951.
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