page_title: André Vauchez
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caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: André Vauchez, à la cérémonie de remise des Prix Balzan 2013 à Berne (Suisse). English: André Vauchez, receiving a Balzan Prize in 2013, in Bern (Switzerland).
context_page_description: André Vauchez FBA is a French medievalist specialising in the history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome. His thesis, defended in 1978, was published in English as Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages in 1987 and has become a standard reference work.
  Vauchez served as the director of medieval studies at the École française de Rome, master of studies at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and professor of medieval history at the University of Rouen and at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He was awarded the Balzan Prize for Medieval History in 2013. Vauchez was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.
context_section_description: André Vauchez FBA (born 24 July 1938, Thionville) is a French medievalist specialising in the history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome. His thesis, defended in 1978, was published in English as Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages in 1987 and has become a standard reference work.
  Vauchez served as the director of medieval studies at the École française de Rome (1972–1979), master of studies at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and professor of medieval history at the University of Rouen (1980–1982) and at the University of Paris X Nanterre (1983–1995). He was awarded the Balzan Prize for Medieval History in 2013. Vauchez was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.
caption: André Vauchez, in 2013.
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