Thierry Delcourt (1959–2011) earned a doctorate in literary studies and was the former head of the Bibliothèque municipale of Troyes (now the Médiathèque de l'Agglomération troyenne). He was director of the Department of Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 2006 to 2011 and was the curator of the exhibition La légende du roi Arthur, BnF, October 2009. His books include Les croisades, la plus grande aventure du Moyen Âge, and La littérature arthurienne.
