Jean-Claude Schmitt

Historian and medievalist

Jean-Claude Schmitt is a French historian and medievalist. He was born in 1945 in Paris, France. Schmitt studied history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and later earned his PhD in history from the University of Paris. He is a prominent expert on medieval history, particularly on the topics of Catharism and the Knights Templar. Schmitt has written extensively on these subjects and has been a vocal...