Ferdinand Chalandon (February 10, 1875 – October 31, 1921) was a French
medievalist
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Byzantinist
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Chalandon's work remains the most substantial study of the
Normans
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in Italy and though the details of what he wrote a hundred years ago have in places been modified, it remains the single most important work available to historians.
Being a former member of the
École française de Rome, Ferdinand Chalandon was a winner of the
Grand prix Gobert in 1909.
Publications
* ''Essai sur le règne d'Alexis Ier Comnène (1081-1118)''. Paris : A. Picard, 1900.
* ''La diplomatique des Normands de Sicile et de l'Italie méridionale''. ''
Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'École française de Rome'', 1900
* ''Numismatique des Normands en Sicile'', 1903
* ''Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile''. Paris : A. Picard, 1907
Tome ITome II
* ''Jean II Comnène, 1118-1143, et Manuel I Comnène, 1143-1180''. Paris. 1912
* ''Histoire de la Première Croisade jusqu'à l'élection de Godefroi de Bouillon'' (1925).
[Chalandon, F. (1925)]
Histoire de la première croisade jusqu'à l'élection de Godefroi de Bouillon
Paris: A. Picard.
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Il cronista dei normanni Corriere della Sera
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Writers from Lyon
French Byzantinists
Historians of the Crusades
1875 births
1921 deaths
French male non-fiction writers
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
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