Claude Gauvard is a French historian and Middle Ages specialist. She has been the President of Société de l'histoire de France since 2009.[1]
Claude Gauvard | |
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Born | Claude Huguet 10 December 1942 |
Nationality | French |
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Notable work | Ordre des Arts et des Lettres recipient |
She was an assistant at the University of Rouen in 1969, then at the Sorbonne in 1971. She is a professor at the Pantheon - Sorbonne University. In 1989, she defended her doctoral thesis, Crime, État et société en France à la fin du Moyen Âge (which received the Malesherbes Prize and the Gobert Award from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres).
In 1990, she became a professor of history of the Middle Ages at the University of Reims. She returned to the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 1992, where she taught history of the Middle Ages until 2009.[2]