Lucien Musset
Appearance
Lucien Musset | |
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Born | Rennes, France | 26 August 1922
Died | 15 December 2004 Caen France | (aged 82)
Nationality | French |
Known for | Pioneering research on Germanic peoples, Vikings and Normans |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History |
Institutions |
Lucien Musset (26 August 1922 – 15 December 2004) was a French historian, specializing in the Duchy of Normandy and the history of the Vikings.
Biography
[edit]Born in Rennes, Musset served as a professor of history at the University of Caen.
Selected works
[edit]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 VIIe−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 (ISBN 2-7089-1707-2)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- "The Barbarian Invasions". January 12, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2012.[permanent dead link]