Jacques Heers
Jacques Heers (6 July 1924 – 10 January 2013), was a French historian, specialist in the history of the Middle Ages, professor at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Paris-Nanterre, then director of medieval studies at Paris IV.
Although a student of Braudel, he does not belong to any historical school.
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Biography
Early life and education
Born in Paris, Jacques Heers was raised in La Ferté-Bernard in the Sarthe region of France, where his parents ran a business. His family was of German and Swiss origin. After a good school career, he passed the competitive examination for the École normale d'instituteurs in 1940. However, the Vichy govenment abolished the Écoles normales in September of the same year. Jacques Heers then found himself in the second year of secondary school at the Lycée Montesquieu in Le Mans, as a boarding student, until he obtained his baccalaureate in 1943.
While fulfilling his duties at the college of Saint-Calais (Sarthe), he prepared for the history degree at the Sorbonne. He passed the secondary school teaching exams, successively the Capes and the agrégation in history in 1948 and 1949, the first year in which Fernand Braudel was appointed president of the jury.
Between 1949 and 1951, Jacques Heers worked as a teacher at the high schools of Le Mans, then Alençon, and finally at the Prytanée National Militaire in La Flèche.
Private life
Jacques Heers married Marie-Louise Bois,[1] a student of history, thus becoming the son-in-law of the historian Paul Bois (1906–1990), his former teacher at the Lycée du Mans.
Academic career
In 1951, he joined the CNRS. From then on, he worked with Fernand Braudel, who sent him to Italy to prepare a doctorate on Genoa in the 15th century. He defended his thesis at the Sorbonne in 1958. On his return from Italy, he became Georges Duby's assistant at the Faculty of Letters in Aix-en-Provence. In 1957, he was appointed professor at the University of Algiers where he worked for five years until 1962. Thereafter, he was successively professor at Caen, Rouen, Paris-Nanterre University and at the Sorbonne.
Honorary professor at the University of Paris IV where he held the chair of medieval history for many years, he was vice-president of the SHMESP (Société des Historiens Médiévistes de l'Enseignement Public) from 1971 to 1973. In retirement, Jacques Heers, apart from writing and research, was often present on Radio Courtoisie programs.
In 1999, he opposed the war in Serbia and signed the petition "Europeans want peace", launched by the collective No to war.
From 2012 until his death, he was a member of the scientific council of Figaro Histoire.
Notes
- ↑ Later a historian herself, Marie-Louise Heers is notably the author of "Les Génois et le Commerce de l'Alun à la Fin du Moyen Âge," Revue d'histoire économique et sociale, Vol. XXXII, No. 1 (1954), pp. 32–53, and Du Printemps des Peuples à l'Affrontement des Nations (1848-1914), ed. des P.U.F. (1974; review by Jacques Neré); and, in Spanish, El mundo contemporaneo (1848-1914), Madrid (1986).
Works
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- Gênes au XVe siècle. Activité économique et problèmes sociaux (1961)
- L'Occident aux XIVe et XVe siècles. Aspects économiques et sociaux (1963)
- Le Travail au Moyen Âge (1965)
- Précis d'histoire du Moyen Âge (1968)
- Le Clan familial au Moyen Âge (1974)
- Christophe Colomb (1981)
- Esclaves et domestiques au Moyen Âge dans le monde méditerranéen (1981)
- Fête des fous et carnavals au Moyen Âge (1983)
- Marco Polo (1983)
- Machiavel (1985)
- La Vie quotidienne à la cour pontificale au temps des Borgia et des Médicis (1986)
- La Ville au Moyen Âge (1990)
- La Découverte de l’Amérique (1991)
- La Ruée vers l’Amérique. Le Mirage et les Fièvres (1992)
- Le Moyen Âge, une imposture (1992)
- Gilles de Rais (1994)
- Libérer Jérusalem. La première croisade (1995)
- Jacques Cœur (1997)
- De Saint Louis à Louis XI. Forger la France (1997)
- Louis XI (1999)
- Les Barbaresques (2001)
- Les Négriers en terres d’islam (2003)
- Chute et mort de Constantinople (2005)
- L'Histoire assassinée. Les pièges de la mémoire (2006)
- Un homme, un vote? (2007)
- Le clan des Médicis. Comment Florence perdit ses libertés (1200-1500) (2008)
- L'histoire oubliée des guerres d'Italie (2009)
- L'Islam cet inconnu, Versailles (2010)
- La Naissance du capitalisme au Moyen Âge. Changeurs, usuriers et grands financiers (2012)
- Histoire des croisades (2014)
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