Lucien Musset

Lucien Musset (26 August 1922 – 15 December 2004) was a French historian, specializing in the Duchy of Normandy and the history of the Vikings.

Lucien Musset
Born	(1922-08-26)26 August 1922 Rennes, France
Died	15 December 2004(2004-12-15) (aged 82) Caen France
Nationality	French
Known for	Pioneering research on Germanic peoples, Vikings and Normans
Scientific career
Fields	History
Institutions	University of Caen

Biography

Born in Rennes, Musset served as a professor of history at the University of Caen.

Selected works

Musset's major works include:

• Les Peuples scandinaves au Moyen Âge (Scandinavian Peoples in the Middle Ages), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1951, 352 p.
• Les Invasions : les vagues germaniques (Invasions: The Germanic Waves), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965
• Les Invasions ; le second assaut contre l’Europe chrétienne VII^e−XI siècles (Invasions: The Second Assault Against Christian Europe, 7th – 11th Centuries), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1965
• Nordica et normannica : recueil d’études sur la Scandinavie ancienne et médiévale, les expéditions des Vikings et la fondation de la Normandie (Nordica and Normannica: collection of essays on ancient and medieval Scandinavia, the Viking expeditions and the founding of Normandy), Société des études nordiques, Paris, 1997
• "Naissance de la Normandie" ("Birth of Normandy"), in Michel de Boüard (editor), Histoire de la Normandie, Privat, Toulouse, 1970, p. 75-129 (ISBN 2-7089-1707-2)

See also

• Georges Dumézil
• Claude Lecouteux
• François-Xavier Dillmann

References

• "The Barbarian Invasions". January 12, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2012.