Pierre Toubert

Pierre Toubert (29 November 1932 – 5 June 2025) was a French historian. He was a professor of medieval history at the University of Paris and the Collège de France. Focusing on medieval history, his most monumental work is Les structures du Latium médiéval : Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle à la fin du XIIe siècle, in which he outlines an influential, in-depth study of incastellamento (in English, encastellation) in the Lazio region of Italy.

Life and career Pierre Toubert was born on 29 November 1932. He earned the agrégation in history and graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1958. He earned a PhD in 1972. He became an officer of the National Order of Merit in 1999, and a commander in 2010.

Toubert died on 5 June 2025, at the age of 92.

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