Maurice Berthe

Maurice Berthe (born on 29 March 1935 in Prades; died on 21 November 2015 in Toulouse) was a French medievalist.

Background
A pupil of Philippe Wolff, he studied and then his career at the University of Toulouse, where he taught from 1967 to 1998. There he founded the UMR Framespa, of which he was the first director.

In line with his mentor, he was interested in the economic and social history of the end of the Middle Ages, and rural history however. His work has focused on demography, economy, land use and settlement in the South of France and northern Spain. He is the author of Le comté de Bigorre, un milieu rural au bas Moyen Age, as well as Famines et épidémies dans les campagnes navarraises à la fin du Moyen Âge.