Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan

Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan (born July 17, 1953 in Paris ) is a French historian whose main focus is on Italy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , with particular emphasis on the Republic of Venice . She also works on the Kingdom of Jerusalem .

life and work

Élisabeth Pavan was born in Paris and is married to the writer Denis Crouzet , with whom she has had a daughter since 1985. From 1978 to 1981 she taught history and geography at the Lycée Pierre de la Ramée in Saint-Quentin , Aisne . In 1976 she began her studies, from 1981 she worked at the Center national de la recherche scientifique on Les villes dans l'Occident médiévale (the cities in the medieval Occident ), and in 1985 she moved to the École française de Rome . In 1989 she completed her studies with a two-volume thesis on Espaces urbains, pouvoir et société à Venise à la fin du Moyen Âge and was appointed to the University of Lille III in October of the following year . In October 1997 she received an appointment at the Université de Paris IV, the Sorbonne .

In 1993 Crouzet-Pavan received the Prix ​​du Budget de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Institut de France for 'Sopra le acque salse': Espaces urbains, pouvoir et société à Venise à la fin du Moyen Age , 2001 for Venise triomphante. Les horizons d'un mythe . In 2002 she received the Prix ​​Guizot de l'Académie française for Enfers et Paradis. L'Italie de Dante et de Giotto and the Prix Diane Potier Boès of the Académie française for Le Mystère des rois de Jérusalem (1099–1187) .

She has been the Socio des Ateneo veneto in Venice since 1999 and a member of the Academia Europaea in London since 2004 . Crouzet-Pavan has been a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite since May 14, 2004, the Légion d'honneur since July 13, 2007 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent since 2012 .

Works (selection)

• as Elisabeth Pavan: Police des mœurs, société et politique à Venise à la fin du Moyen Age , in: Revue historique 264.2 (1980) 241–288.
• as Elisabeth Pavan: Imaginaire et politique. Venise et la mort à la fin du Moyen Âge , in: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen-Age, Temps modern 53.2 (1981) 467-493.
• Venice between Jerusalem, Byzantium, and divine retribution: The origins of the Ghetto , in: Mediterranean Historical Review 6.2 (1991) 163-179.
• 'Sopra le acque salse'. Espaces, pouvoirs et société à Venise à la fin du Moyen Âge , Collection de l'École française de Rome / Istituto Italiano per il Medio Evo, Rome 1992.
• La mort lente de Torcello: histoire d'une cité disparue , Fayard, Paris 1995.
• La conquista e l'organizzazione dello spazio urbano , in: Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima, Vol. II: Gherardo Ortalli, Giorgio Cracco : L'età del Comune , Rome 1995, pp. 549-576.
• La maturazione dello spazio urbano , in Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima , Il Rinascimento. Società ed economia , edited by Alberto Tenenti , Ugo Tucci , Rome 1996, pp. 3-100.
• Venise. Une invention de la ville XIIIe – XVe siècle , Seyssel, 1997.
• Pouvoir et édilité dans l'Italie communale et seigneuriale , Collection de l'École française de Rome, Rome 2003.
• Venise triomphante, les horizons d'un mythe , Albin Michel, 1999 (2005).
• Enfers et paradis. L'Italie de Dante et de Giotto , Albin Michel, 2001.
• Renaissances italiennes (1380–1500) , Albin Michel, 2007 (span. 2014).
• with Jacques Verger (ed.): La dérision au Moyen Age , Presses Paris Sorbonne, Paris 2007 (ridicule in the Middle Ages).
• Les Villes Vivantes. Italy XIIIe-XVe s. , Fayard, Paris 2009.
• Venice and Its Surroundings , in: Eric R. Dursteler (Ed.): A Companion to Venetian History, 1400–1797 , Brill, 2013, pp. 25–46.
• Le Mystère des rois de Jérusalem (1099–1187) , Albin Michel, 2013.
• Le Moyen-Âge de Venise , Albin Michel, 2015.

literature

• Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Curriculum vitae , PDF, Sorbonne website (French)

Web links

• Publications by Crouzet-Pavan in the Opac der Regesta Imperii