Michel Kaplan


Michel Kaplan is a French medieval historian, docteur d'État, professor emeritus and former president of Pantheon-Sorbonne University. He is a Byzantinist specialising in history of mentalities, rural space and hagiography of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Career

In his early years, Kaplan followed the courses taught by Paul Lemerle. He began his career as an assistant professor and then lecturer at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, where he defended his thèse d'état Les hommes et la terre à Byzance du VIᵉ au XIᵉ siècle : propriété et exploitation du sol in 1987. He then became a professor of medieval history at Paris I since 1988 and had been president of this university from 1999 to 2004. Since 2003, his research had encompassed the history of Byzantine mentalities. He retired from his job in 2015. On 13 November 2018, a lecture given by Kaplan took place at the Athens Concert Hall in Greece.

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