André Vauchez FBA (born 24 July 1938,

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) is a French

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specialising in the history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the

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and the École française de Rome. His

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, defended in 1978, was published in English as ''Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages'' in 1987 and has become a standard reference work. Vauchez served as the director of medieval studies at the École française de Rome (1972–1979), master of studies at the

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, and professor of medieval history at the

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(1980–1982) and at the University of Paris X Nanterre (1983–1995). He was awarded the

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for Medieval History in 2013. Vauchez was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

in 2015.

Bibliography

Books

;As author * ''La spiritualité du Moyen Âge occidental VIII^e–XIII^e'' (''The spirituality of the medieval West''), Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1975. *
La sainteté en Occident aux derniers siècles du Moyen Âge (1198-1431)
', Rome, École française de Rome, 1981 nglish trans.: ''Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages'', Cambridge, 1987 and Italian trans.: ''La santità nel Medioevo'', Bologne, 1989 * ''Les laïcs au Moyen Âge'' (''The Laity in the Middle Ages''), Paris, Cerf, 1987. * ''Saints, prophètes et visionnaires : le pouvoir du surnaturel au Moyen Âge'' (''Saints, prophets and visionaries: the power of the supernatural in the Middle Ages''), Paris, Albin Michel, 1999. * ''François d'Assise'', Paris, Fayard, 2009 ( Prix Chateaubriand 2010)''Le Magazine Littéraire'', 22 novembre 201
Fil des lettres - Le prix Chateaubriand 2010 couronne André Vauchez - Le Magazine Littéraire
* ''Les hérétiques au Moyen Âge : suppôts de Satan ou chrétiens dissidents'', Paris, CNRS, 2014. ** ;As editor * ''Histoire du christianisme'', Paris, Desclée, t. IV, V et VI, 1990–1993. * ''Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Moyen Âge'', Paris, Cerf, 2 vol., 1997–1998. * ''Christianisme : dictionnaire des temps, des lieux et des figures'', Paris, Le Seuil, 2010. * ''Rome au Moyen Âge'', Riveneuve éditions, 2010.

Critical studies and reviews

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vauchez, Andre People from Thionville 1938 births Living people French medievalists 20th-century French historians Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French male non-fiction writers Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy 21st-century French historians