Jacques Heers is a historian French, specialist in the history of the Moyen-âge, professor with the Faculty of Arts and Social sciences of Paris-Nanterre, then director of studies medieval to the Sorbonne (Paris IV).

Although Braudel raises, it is not attached to any historical school.

Biography

Jacques Heers, born in Paris, was high with the Ferté-Bernard in the the Sarthe, where his/her parents held a Commerce. After a very good school course, it becomes Instituteur in 1945. While achieving its function, it prepares, by taste, the license of history to the Sorbonne. It makes a success of successively the Capes then the aggregation of history in 1948 and 1949. Between 1949 and 1951, it becomes Professor with the Mans, then with Alençon, and finally with the military national Prytanée.

Starting from 1951, it is attached to CNRS. Consequently, it cotoie large the Fernand Braudel which sends it in Italy to prepare a Doctorat state devoted to Genoa to the 15th century . It supports its Thèse with the Sorbonne in 1958. On its return of Italy, he becomes the assistant of Georges Duby with the Faculty of Arts of Aix-en-Provence. In 1957, it is named professor at the University of Algiers where it exerts during five years until in 1962. Thereafter, he is successively professor with Caen, Rouen, Université Paris X and with the Sorbonne.

Work

Its research topics are:
  • the city and last centuries of the the Middle Ages: part of its work tends to show that the historical tradition which divides the European history into Moyen-âge and Renaissance is not founded, and that categorization in so distinct historical periods masks on the one hand a true solution of continuity and on the other hand geographical disparities some. It is the object, inter alia, of its test the Middle Ages, an imposture (1999).

  • the Trade in the Mediterranean at the 14th century and 15th century: its thesis of doctorate aims at showing that the importance of the trade of the spice in the Mediterranean was largely over-estimated by the historians. Actually, according to its work, the corn, salt and other products held much more place than the trade of spice (in term of volume and value in the exchanges). Fernand Braudel, which always evoked the importance of spice in the exchanges, recognizes the serious scientist of work of Jacques Heers.

  • the legend of the Arab contribution in the redécouverte of the Greek thought in Europe: today, Jacques Heers thinks that one largely over-estimates the contribution of the Arabs in the redécouverte of the philosophy of Aristote in Occident. According to him, “teaching the Greek thought in Occident, that of the Logical in particular, forever ceased in the schools cathedrals then in the very first universities. One made use then of Latin translations of the Greek texts of origin that the clerks and the scholars of Constantinople piously had kept and largely diffused. Translations of the Greek in Arab language and Latin Arabic, whom one generally allots to Avicenne and with Averoès appeared relatively late, whereas all the lesson was already places from there to Occident and that made more than one century that the Logique , directly inspired by Aristote, like one of the seven " was recognized; arts libéraux" university course. ”

Activity

Today, Jacques Heers is in retirement, and apart from the writing and of research, one can often hear it in emissions of Radio Courtesy.

Works

  • To release Jerusalem the first crusade , Perrin Editions.
  • Of Saint Louis with Louis XI , Bartillat Editions.
  • Jacques Heart , Perrin Editions.
  • Festivals of insane and carnivals , Editions Hatchet.
  • Precise of medieval history , university Presses of France.
  • the family clan with the Middle Ages - Study on the political structures and social of urban environments, university Presses of France.
  • 1492 - 1530 rush towards America - mirages and fevers? , Complex Editions.
  • Christophe Colomb , Hatchet Literature.
  • the discovery of America , Editions Complexes, 1991.
  • the Middle Ages, an imposture , Perrin Editions, 1999.
  • Occident with 14th and 15th centuries , university Presses of France.
  • the barbaresque ones - Race and war in the Mediterranean, 14th-16th century , Perrin Editions.
  • the first crusade , Perrin Editions.
  • Louis XI , Perrin Editions.
  • pontifical court at the time of Borgia and Médicis , Editions Hatchet.
  • the city with the Middle Ages in Occident , Editions Hatchet.
  • Fall and died of Constantinople - 1204 - 1453 , Editions Perrin
  • Slave traders of Islam - first draft of the blacks 7th-15th centuries, Perrin Editions, 2003.
  • Gilles de Rais , Perrin Editions, 2005.
  • assassinated History - traps of the memory , Editions of Paris, 2006.
  • Work with the Middle Ages , university Presses of France, 1965.

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