Jean Marie Weigh
Jean-Marie Weigh ( in 1929 - 1 998 ), archaeologist and historian of civilization rural material culture of medieval and preindustrial.
Professor of History ( 1958 ), director of studies at the EPHE , then at the EHESS from 1975 , he was one of the pioneers of archeology medieval France starting in 1965, with Michel de Board ( University of Caen ) and Gabrielle d'Archimbaud Demians ( University of Aix-en-Provence ).
Through his work he has promoted studies on material culture and rural life in the Middle Ages. He has been co-director of the Franco-Polish survey on the deserted villages in Europe, which has attracted the interest of archaeologists and historians for the study of rural housing and rural civilization in France. His teaching and his work has contributed to bringing innovative history, archeology, ethnography and anthropology.
As part of his seminar at the EHESS, at its excavations in France ( Dracy , Saint-Jean-le-Froid ), in Sicily and Greece , especially in collaboration with the French Laboratory of Ethnology, the National Museum arts and popular traditions , the Polish Institute of Material Culture, he formed from the 1960s and until 1997, many professional and amateur archaeologists. He chaired the Board of archeology for many years.
Bibliography
- Weigh (Jean-Marie), Archaeology: mutations, missions, methods, Paris, Armand Colin, 2007, 128 p.
- Collective, The medieval village and its environment: studies offered to Jean-Marie Weigh, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1998, 682 p. (Bibliography)
- Weigh (Jean-Marie), Archaeology of the village and the rural house in the Middle Ages, Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1998, 515 p. (Collection of all items)
- Weigh (Jean-Marie), "History of Material Culture", in Jacques Le Goff (ed.), The New History, Paris, Retz, Modern Encyclopedia, 1978, p. 98-130
- Weigh (Jean-Marie, dir. Et al.) Brucato: History and Archaeology of a medieval settlement in Sicily, Rome, French School of Rome, 1978
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