Claude Gauvard


Claude Gauvard is a French historian and Middle Ages specialist. She is also a President of Société de l'histoire de France since 2009.

Life

She was an assistant at the University of Rouen in 1969, then at Sorbonne in 1971. She is a professor at the Pantheon - Sorbonne University. In 1989, she defended her doctoral thesis, Crime, État et société en France à la fin du Moyen Âge.
In 1990, she became a professor of history of the Middle Ages at the University of Reims. She returned to Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 1992 where she taught history of the Middle Ages until 2009.

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