Michel Balard

Michel Balard est un historien français, spécialiste du Moyen Âge.

Agrégé d'histoire (1959, 2e), étudiant à l’École pratique des hautes études (IVe section), il a ensuite été membre de l’École française de Rome de 1965 à 1968. Il soutient sa thèse de doctorat intitulée La Romanie génoise (XIIe- début du XVe siècle) (1976, Paris-I). Il s'est intéressé surtout à la colonisation en particulier dans l'Orient médiéval du XIe siècle (à partir de la Première croisade) jusqu'au XVe siècle, lors de l'apogée des cités-États de la péninsule italienne.

Ses recherches s'effectuent autour du commerce, des institutions politiques et culturelles de la Méditerranée orientale (Terre sainte, Chypre, Syrie), en Asie centrale (l'empire de Gengis Khan) et en Chine

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