Lucien Musset (26 August 1922 – 15 December 2004) was a French historian, specializing in the
Duchy of Normandy
The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple, King Charles III of West Francia and the Viking leader Rollo. The duchy was named for its inhabitants, the Normans.
From 1066 until 1204, as a r ...
and the history of the
Viking
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden),
who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9â ...
s.
Biography
Born in
Rennes
Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...
, Musset served as a professor of history at the
University of Caen.
Selected works
Musset's major works include:
* ''Les Peuples scandinaves au Moyen Âge'' (Scandinavian Peoples in the Middle Ages), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1951, 352 p.
* ''Les Invasions : les vagues germaniques'' (Invasions: The Germanic Waves), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965
* ''Les Invasions; le second assaut contre l’Europe chrétienne VII
e−XI siècles'' (Invasions: The Second Assault Against Christian Europe, 7th – 11th Centuries), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965
* ''Nordica et normannica : recueil d’études sur la Scandinavie ancienne et médiévale, les expéditions des Vikings et la fondation de la Normandie'' (Nordica and Normannica: collection of essays on ancient and medieval Scandinavia, the Viking expeditions and the founding of Normandy), Société des études nordiques, Paris, 1997
* "Naissance de la Normandie" ("Birth of Normandy"), in Michel de Boüard (editor), ''Histoire de la Normandie'', Privat, Toulouse, 1970, p. 75-129 ()
See also
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Georges Dumézil
Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil (4 March 189811 October 1986) was a French Philology, philologist, Linguistics, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and comparative mythology, mythology. He was a prof ...
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Claude Lecouteux
Claude Lecouteux (born 8 February 1943) is a French philologist and medievalist who specializes in Germanic studies. He is Professor Emeritus and Chair of the Literature and Civilization of Medieval Germanic Peoples at Sorbonne University.
In 19 ...
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François-Xavier Dillmann
References
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1922 births
2004 deaths
Writers from Rennes
Academic staff of the University of Caen Normandy
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French historians
20th-century French male writers
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