Claude Lepelley | |
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| Born | 8 February 1934 |
| Died | 31 January 2015 (aged 80) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian University |
Claude Lepelley (8 February 1934[1] – 31 January 2015[2]) was a 20th-21st-century French historian, a specialist of late Antiquity and North Africa during Antiquity. His thesis, Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, defended in 1977 under the direction of William Seston, profoundly changed the understanding of the urban world in the 3rd and 4th centuries; far from declining, the cities of Africa had some prosperity.