About Jean-Louis Biget
Lived 1937 – 2024 (aged 86). Jean-Louis Biget was a French historian, medievalist and university teacher.
Jean-Louis Biget (26 May 1937 – 21 March 2024) was a French historian who specialized in the Middle Ages.
Biography Born in Deux-Sèvres on 26 May 1937, Biget graduated from the in 1957. He became a professor at the and the École normale supérieure de Lyon. He specialized in the history of the medieval Languedoc region, notably the village of Albi. He also studied Catharism and other Christian heresies, works which were expanded on by the likes of R. I. Moore and Mark Gregory Pegg. He served as Secretary-General of the Comité historique de Fanjeaux and published in the scholarly journal . In 1994, after the death of , he was editor-in-chief of the journal until 2004. He was a member of the Goods Committee of the when it was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.
Jean-Louis Biget died on 21 March 2024, at the age of 86.
Publications Articles "Un procès d’Inquisition à Albi en 1300" (1971) "Mythographie du catharisme" (1979) "L’évolution des noms de baptême en Languedoc au Moyen Âge (IXe-xive siècle)" (1982) "Autour de Bernard Délicieux : franciscanisme et société en Languedoc entre 1295 et 1330" (1984) "La cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d’Albi : l’architecture" (1985) "Les villes du Midi de la France au Moyen Âge" (1995) "Les 'Albigeois', histoire d'une dénomination" (1998) "Le Livre des sentences de l’inquisiteur Bernard Gui" (2005) "Béziers, citadelle de l'hérésie ?" (2010) "Jean Guiraud, historien du Moyen Âge, de l'hérésie et de l'Inquisition" (2014)
Books Histoire d’Albi (1983) Les cadastres anciens des villes et leur traitement par l'informatique : actes de la table ronde (1989) Sainte-Cécile d'Albi : peintures (1995) Sainte-Cécile d'Albi : sculptures (1997) La cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi : voir et comprendre (1998) Hérésie et inquisition dans le midi de la France (2007) Les cathares albigeois et "bons hommes" (2008) Eglise, dissidences et société dans l'Occitanie médiévale (2020) Albi et l'Albigeois au Moyen Âge (2022)
CD Albums Les Cathares L'Inquisition La grande peste noire
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French historian (1937–2024)
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Jean-Louis Biget was born on 26 May 1937 in Deux-Sèvres, Vanzay.
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