Cécile Morrisson
Cécile Morrisson (born June 16, 1940 in Dinan ) is a French numismatist and Byzantinist .
Life
After studying at the École normal supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres (1958–1963), she was a research assistant at the CNRS until 2000 . From 1988 to 1990 she was director of the coin cabinet of the Paris National Library , from 1998 to 2000 director of the Center d'histoire et civilization de Byzance . Since 1998 she has been Advisor for Byzantine numismatics in Dumbarton Oaks .
Monetary and economic history of the Byzantine world are her main areas of work, her first book publication in 1969 was about the Crusades. The current research project is the completion of the catalog of Byzantine coins in the Paris Coin Cabinet for the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 to its final fall in 1453.
In 1994 she received the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society , in 1995 the Archer M. Huntington Medal of the American Numismatic Society and in 1998 the silver medal of the CNRS. Morrisson has been a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Academy of Athens since 2008, of the Medieval Academy of America since 2009 and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2018 .
Publications (selection)
- Catalog des monnaies byzantines de la Bibliothèque Nationale. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: D'Anastax I. à Justinien II (491–711). Vol. 2: De Philippicus à Alexis III (711–1204). ). Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 1970 (from 491 to 1204).
- Monnaie et finances à Byzance. Analyzes, techniques (= Variorum Collected Studies Series. 461). Variorum, Aldershot 1994, ISBN 0-86078-401-0 (Collected Small Writings).
- as editor: Le monde byzantin. Volume 1: L'empire romain d'Orient. 330-641. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-13-052006-5 .
- with Angeliki E. Laiou: The Byzantine Economy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-84978-4 .
Web links
- Morrisson, Cecile . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- Curriculum vitae and list of publications (PDF; 158 kB) at the CFEB (Comité français des études byzantines)
- Information at sacra-moneta.com
- Literature by and about Cécile Morrisson in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the series Que sais-je? , n ° 157. 9th revised edition. 2003, ISBN 2-13-038373-4 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morrisson, Cecile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French numismatist and Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinan |