Charles Higounet
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Charles Higounet was a French
France
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 historian
Historian
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 medievalist, specialising in bastides and the medium age period in south-west of France.

Biography

Charles Higounet was a French medievalist who taught in Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

 III university from 1946 to 1979, where a research center was named after him.
He used to be a specialist of bastides
Bastides
Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides...

, (a new and specific form of city in the middle age), and south-west of France history, and he was especially noticed after his history of Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

, for which he won the historical prize Grand prix Gobert in 1973. He also led a team work of an historical atlas for French cities.
He also the "Que sais-je ?" (famous French collection of thousands of shorts reference essays, summarising the state of the knowledge on various subjects) on various forms of writing. The book has been re-edited more than ten times.

Published works

  • Les Allemands en Europe centrale et orientale au Moyen âge 1989 Aubier, ISBN 2-7007-2223-X
  • Atlas historique des villes de France, 1982 -
  • Le Comté de Comminges, 1949
  • Défrichements et villeneuves du Bassin parisien, 1990 Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, ISBN 2-222-04210-0, 384 P
  • L'Écriture, 1976
  • La Gascogne au XIVe et XVe siècles, 1969
  • Grand cartulaire de La Sauve-Majeure, 1996, Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest, ISBN 2-85408-026-2
  • Histoire de Bordeaux..., dir, 1962 Editions Privat, ISBN 2-7089-4711-7, 418 p
  • Histoire de l'Aquitaine, dir, 1976
  • Paysages et villages neufs du Moyen âge, 1975
  • Recherches sur l'histoire de l'occupation du sol du Périgord, 1978, Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, ISBN 2-222-02279-7
  • Recueil des actes de l'Abbaye cistercienne de Bonnefont en Comminges, publ. par Charles Samaran,... et Charles Higounet,.1970, Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France. Série in 8,
  • La Seigneurie et le vignoble de Château-Latour, 1974
  • Villes, sociétés et économies médiévales, recueil d'articles, 1992
  • L'écriture, Que Sais-je, Presses universitaires de France, ISBN 2-13-039397-7, 2003.

Articles

  • "Les anciennes bastides du Sud-Ouest de la France", L’Information Historique, 1946, ps. 28-35.
  • "Bastides et frontières", Le Moyen Age, 1948, t. LIV.
  • "Les bastides du Sud-Ouest", Le Moyen Age, 1948.
  • "La frange orientale des bastides", Annales du Midi, Tolosa, Privat, 1948–1949, t. LXI, ps. 359-367.
  • "Villeneuves et bastides désertées", Villages désertés et histoire économique (XI-XVIIIe siècle), Les hommes et la terre-IX- Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1965, ps. 253-265.
  • "Nouvelle approche sur les bastides du Sud-Ouest aquitain", Revue Urbanisme, Paris, 1967, n°101, ps. 32-35.
  • "Les villeneuves du Piémont et les bastides de Gascogne (XIIe-XIVe siècles)", Compte-Rendus de l'Acad. des Inscr. et Belles Lettres, Paris, 1970, ps. 130-139.
  • "Paysages et Villages neufs du Moyen Age", recueil d'articles, Bordeaux, 1975, 492 p.
  • "Les bastides en question ", Revue Urbanisme, Paris, n°173-174, Paris, 1979, p. 6-10.
  • "La place dans les bastides médiévales", Plazas et sociabilité en Europe et Amérique latine, Publications de la Case de Velasquez, sér. Recherches en Sciences Sociales, Paris, fasc. VI, 1982, p. 119
  • "Villes, sociétés et économies médiévales" / Recueil d'articles de Charles Higounet, Talence, Institut d'histoire, Université de Bordeaux III, Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest, 1992.
  • and many others...
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