Paul Lemerle

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Paul Lemerle (French pronunciation:

Byzantinist
, born in Paris.

Biography

Lemerle taught at the

École Pratique des Hautes Études (1947–1968), at the Sorbonne (1958–1967) and at the Collège de France (1967–1973). He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1945, on the city of Philippi and eastern Macedonia
during the Byzantine period.

He was the founding president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB).

He died in Paris.

Works

  • Le style byzantin. 1943.
  • Philippes et la Macédoine orientale à l'époque chrétienne et byzantine. Thèse de doctorat, Paris, 1945.
  • L'émirat d'Aydin, Byzance et l'Occident. 1957.
  • Histoire de Byzance. 1960. Translated into English as A history of Byzantium. 1964.
  • Élèves et professeurs à Constantinople au Xe siècle. 1969.
  • Le premier humanisme byzantin. 1971. Translated into English as Byzantine humanism, the first phase. 1986. Translated into Russian as Первый византийский гуманизм. 2012.
  • Cinq études sur le XIe siècle Byzantin. 1977.
  • Le monde de Byzance. 1978.
  • Les plus anciens recueils des miracles de Saint Démétrius et la pénétration des Slaves dans les Balkans. 1979.
  • The agrarian history of Byzantium from the origins to the twelfth century. 1979.
  • Essais sur le monde byzantin. 1980.

Sources

  • Dagron, Gilbert. "Paul Lemerle 1903–1989" (PDF) (in French). Collège de France. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-28.
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