Régine Pernoud

Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909, Château-Chinon, Nièvre – 22 April 1998, Paris) was a French historian and archivist.

Career overview

In 1929 she obtained an undergraduate degree in literature at the University of Aix-en-Provence. She then achieved a Doctorate in Literature from the École Nationale des Chartes and the École du Louvre. Having grown up in an impoverished family, she worked in various professions (teacher, coach, archiver) while completing her university studies and while waiting for a post in a museum. She later became curator at the Museum of Reims in 1947, at the Museum of the History of France in 1949, at the National Archives, and at the Centre of Joan of Arc (which she had founded in 1974 at the request of André Malraux).

She is known for writing extensively about Joan of Arc and the social standing of women in the Middle Ages (500–1500), e.g., on Robert of Arbrissel who in 1099 founded the double monastery — one with nuns, and one with monks — of Fontevraud, where he put a nun, Petronilla Chemillé, who was 22 years of age, in charge of leading it. She primarily did the work of a medieval historian, however she also published several popular works. She was a founding member of the Academy of the Morvan in 1967. She received the Grand Prize of the City of Paris in 1978 and in 1997 the French Academy awarded her for her lifetime's work.

She is the aunt of George Pernoud, presenter of Thalassa.

Works

• Essai sur l'histoire du port de Marseille des origines à la fin du XIII^e (1935; doctoral thesis)
• L'Unité française (1944)
• Lumière du Moyen Âge (1944)
• Les villes marchandes aux XIVe et XVe siècles, impérialisme et capitalisme au Moyen-âge (1948)
• Vie et mort de Jeanne d'Arc; les témoignages du procès de réhabilitation 1450-1456 (1953)
• Les grandes Époques de l'Art en Occident (1954)
• Les Gaulois (1957)
• Les Croisés (1959)
• Un Chef d'État, Saint Louis de France (1960)
• Histoire de la Bourgeoisie en France; I. Des origines aux temps modernes; II. Les temps modernes (1960–62; 1981)
• Les Croisades (1960)
• Histoire du peuple français ; I. Des origines au moyen âge (1961)
• Croyants et incroyants d'aujourd'hui (1962)
• Jeanne d'Arc par elle-même et par ses témoins (1962)
• Notre Dame de Paris (1963)
• L'histoire des rois mages: selon l'Évangile de saint Matthieu (1964)
• La Formation de la France (1966)
• Aliénor d'Aquitaine (1965)
• Héloïse et Abélard (1967)
• 8 mai 1429, la libération d'Orléans (1969)
• L'histoire racontée à mes neveux (1969; illustrated by René Follet)
• Jeanne devant les Cauchons (1970)
• Beauté du Moyen Âge (1971)
• La Reine Blanche (1972)
• Les Templiers (1974)
• Pour en finir avec le Moyen Âge (1977)
• Les Hommes de la Croisade (1977)
• La Femme au temps des cathédrales (1980)
• Sources de l'art roman (1980; with Madeleine Pernoud)
• Jeanne d'Arc (1981; with Madeleine Pernoud)
• Christine de Pisan (1982)
• Le Tour de France médiéval: l'histoire buissonnière (1982; with Georges Pernoud)
• La Plume et le parchemin (1983)
• Jeanne et Thérèse (1984)
• Les Saints au Moyen Âge: la sainteté d'hier est-elle pour aujourd'hui? (1984)
• Saint Louis et le crépuscule de la féodalité (1985)
• Le Moyen Âge pour quoi faire ? (1986; with Raymond Delatouche and Jean Gimpel)
• Jeanne d'Arc (1986; with Marie-Véronique Clin)
• Isambour: la reine captive (1987)
• Richard Cœur de Lion (1988; 1995)
• Jeanne d'Arc et la guerre de Cent ans (1990)
• La Femme au temps des croisades (1990)
• La Vierge et les saints au Moyen âge (1991)
• La Spiritualité de Jeanne d'Arc (1992)
• Villa Paradis: souvenirs (1992)
• Hildegarde de Bingen: conscience inspirée du XII^e (1994)
• J'ai nom Jeanne la Pucelle (1994)
• Réhabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc, reconquête de la France (1995)
• Les Templiers, chevaliers du Christ (1995; 2009)
• Celui par qui la Gaule devint chrétienne (1996)
• Jardins de monastères (1996)
• Martin de Tours (1996)
• Saint Jérôme: père de la Bible (1996; with Madeleine Pernoud)
• Jeanne d'Arc, Napoléon: le paradoxe du biographe (1997)
• Histoire et lumière (1998)
• Visages de femmes au Moyen Âge (1998)

Translated into English

• The Glory of the Mediaeval World (1950; translated by Joyce Emerson)
• The Retrial of Joan of Arc (1955; 2007; translated by J. M. Cohen)
• In the Steps of the Crusaders (1959; translated by Margaret Case)
• The Crusades (1962; translated by Enid McLeod)
• Saint Jerome (1963; translated by Rosemary Sheed)
• Joan of Arc, by Herself and Her Witnesses (1964; translated by Edward Hyams)
• The Story of the Wise Men (1964)
• Eleanor of Aquitaine (1967; translated by Peter Wiles)
• Heloise and Abelard (1973; translated by Peter Wiles)
• Blanche of Castile (1975; translated by Henry Noel)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1998; translated by Paul Duggan)
• Joan of Arc: Her Story (2000; with Marie-Véronique Clin; translated and revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams)
• Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths (2000; translated by Anne Englund Nash)
• The Crusaders (2003; translated by Enid Grant)
• Martin of Tours: Soldier, Bishop, and Saint (2006; translated by Michael J. Miller)
• The Templars: Knights of Christ (2009; translated by Henry Taylor)

External links

• Works by Régine Pernoud at Hathi Trust