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Jean Claude Cheynet

Jean-Claude Cheynet (born 21 February 1947 ) is a historian French specialist of the Byzantine Empire.

Summary

Associate of History ( 1970 ).
Doctorate in Byzantine History ( 1977 ).
Entry to the CNRS (1977).
Doctor of Letters Paris I ( 1987 ).
Director of Research at CNRS ( 1990 ).
Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Paris IV (since 1995 ).
Director of Byzantine Studies Review (1996-2005).
Director of the Centre for Research on the history and civilization of Byzantium (CNRS- College de France since 2000 ).

Study of Byzantine society between the ^eighth and ^thirteenth centuries.
Prosopography of the Byzantine aristocracy.
Sigillography Byzantine.
Political history, military and administrative jurisdiction of the Byzantine Empire.

Cheynet BC, revolts and movements of dissent in the Byzantine Empire from 1180 to 1208, Edition Sorbonne, 1977 ^(3rd cycle thesis, Paris I).
AD Cheynet, Power and challenges in Byzantium (963-1210), Sorbonne Edition, 1987 (dissertation, dir. Helene Ahrweiler , Paris I).
C. Morrison, AD and W. Cheynet Seibt, seals from the collection H. Seyrig kept in the Bibliothque Nationale de Paris, Paris 1991.
Cheynet AD (eds.), medieval Christianity ^{VII-XI century,} Paris, 1997.
Cheynet BC, Seals Zacos collection (National Library of France) relating to the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire, Paris 2001.
Cheynet AD, Byzantium. The Eastern Roman Empire, Paris, Colin, Curricula, 2001.
Cheynet AD, History of Byzantium. 1. The State and society, PUF, Que sais-je?, Paris 2005.
Cheynet AD, the Byzantine world. II The Byzantine Empire (641-1204), PUF, New Clio, Paris, 2006.