Jacques Chiffoleau

Jacques Chiffoleau is a historian French Moyen-âge. Born in 1951, he becomes pupil of the National university of Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, passes the aggregation of history, then becomes member of the French École of Rome. It was then university lecturer then professor with the Université Light - Lyon 2, then professor with the Université of Avignon and the Countries of Vaucluse. He is currently director of studies to the École of the high studies in social sciences. He was the pupil of Jacques Le Goff and Michel Mollat of Jourdin.

Work

Appeared in 1980, its first book, Accounts Department of beyond. The men, death and the religion in the area of Avignon at the end of the Middle Ages (towards 1320-towards 1480) , renewed the history of the Christianisme at the last centuries of the Moyen-âge, with an anthropological approach which shows how the crisis " mélancolique" end of the Middle Ages cannot be included/understood without the rupture of a certain bond with deaths, the ancestors, and the discovery of a loneliness which does not exclude the development from social links, in particular downtown (brotherhoods), a new relationship with God and beyond and the invention also of new cultural forms. Its contribution to the religious French history appeared in 1988, entitled the blazing Religion (towards 1320-towards 1520) , also made date.

Work of Jacques Chiffoleau also has a great influence in the field of the history of justice, the right and the institutions. After the publication in 1984 of one entitled book Justices of the pope , on the history of criminality with Avignon at the time when papacy lay in this city, it published a series of important articles on the procedure, the consent, the crime of lese-majesty and the concept of " against-nature" at the last centuries of the the Middle Ages. He is specialist in the lawsuit of Gilles de Rais. In addition, it translated into French the book of the American historian Brian Levack entitled Great hunting for the witches in Europe at the beginning of modern times (ED. Field Small valley, 1991).

One of the recent articles of Jacques Chiffoleau analyzes the separation of for intern (or for of conscience) of the external for, i.e. the legal for, starting from the XII {{E}} 13th centuries. Jacques Chiffoleau examines and gives partially in question the traditional assumption according to which the refusal of the Catholic church of " to judge things occultes" (which relates to the conscience and raise only of the sacramental confession) as from the 13th century would be at the remote origins of the Freedom of conscience in Occident.

In 2006, Jacques Chiffoleau organized a conference with Fanjeaux dedicated to the history of the " justices of Eglise" in the South at the end of the the Middle Ages and published in number 42 of the Books of Fanjeaux. In addition, he is director of program CORELPA ( electronic Corpus of the pontifical letters ), financed by the National agency of the research, whose objective is the digitalization and the exploitation of the hundreds of thousands of letters emitted by the popes in XIIIe and XIVe century, at time when they controlled (or tried to control) the whole of the Latin Chrétienté (i.e. Western Europe) since their court of Rome then of Avignon.

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