Perfil

Emeritus professor of the Université Paris-Est Créteil and associate member of the Centre de recherche en histoire européenne comparée (CRHEC).

He studied first at the university of Lyons, then at the university Paris IV – Sorbonne, where he completed his cursus. His doctoral thesis was La Politique navale des ducs de Bourgogne, 1384-1482 (1993, published 1995) and his ‘habilitation à diriger des recherches’ with a dissertation Les Ducs de Bourgogne, la croisade et l’Orient, fin XIV^e – XV^e siècle (2000, published 2003). He is the author of a numerous bibliography as he has specialised in maritime history: edition of Philippe de Clèves’ L’Instruction de toutes manieres de guerroyer (…) sur mer (1997); in crusade history: Projets de croisade (v. 1290 – v. 1330) (2008), Le Rouleau d’Arenberg. Une histoire généalogique de la première croisade et des États latins d’Orient (2016), Relation de la croisade de Nicopolis (XV^e siècle) with M.-G. Anton and G. Palumbo (2021); in the Portuguese expansion: Portugal et Bourgogne au XV^e siècle (1384-1482) (1995), in the history of Bruges: Bruges, 1300-1500 (2002), and of the relations between Portugal and Flanders; in the history of courts: La Cour du Prince. Cour de France, cours d’Europe, XIIe-XVe siècle with M. Gaude-Ferragu and B. Laurioux (2011); in the history of art: Miroir du Prince, 1425-1510. La commande artistique des hauts fonctionnaires de la cour de Bourgogne with B. Maurice-Chabard and S. Jugie (2021) and studies on the painter Jan van Eyck ; in the history of the nobility: La Noblesse au Moyen Âge with S. Fourcade (2024).

He is foreign correspondant of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, of the Academia Portuguesa da História, of the Academia de Marinha, of the Académie royale d’Archéologie de Belgique, and the secretary of the Société de l’histoire de France.