Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot (Le Plessis Piquet

Le Plessis-Robinson

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, 20 September 1866 – Fontenay-aux-Roses

Fontenay-aux-Roses

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, 20 July 1952) was a French

France

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 historian

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 and medievalist.

Lot was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

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, part of the Institut de France

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, and an honorary professor at the Sorbonne

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.

Select bibliography

• La France, des origines à la guerre de cent ans. Paris: Gallimard, 1941.
• La Gaule, Les fondements ethniques, sociaux et politiques de la nation française. Paris: Fayard, 1947.
• The End of the Ancient World and the Beginning of the Middle Ages. London: Kegan Paul, 1931. (La Fin du monde antique et le début du Moyen Age.)

Further reading

Mahn-Lot, Marianne, "À propos des papiers inédits de Ferdinand Lot" in Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes

Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes

The Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes is a journal dedicated to the study and use of medieval manuscripts. It was founded in 1839 and continues to provide bi-annual issues with articles and abstracts in French, English, and German. Starting in 1995, one issue each year is devoted to a...

, Volume 155, Number 1, 1977. (Available online at Persée) Perrin, Charles Edmond, "Ferdinand Lot, 1866–1952" in Hautes études médiévales et modernes, no. 4, 1968.

External links

Works by Ferdinand Lot at Les classiques des sciences sociales (UQAC)