Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (* 1936 in Thann ) is a French historian and specialist in the European Middle Ages .
Life
She did her doctorate in 1966 at the Sorbonne with Jacques Le Goff with a thesis on the history of Carrara and marble processing and since 1962 she has been Chef de travaux, Maître-Assistante or Maîtresse de conférences at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes , VIe Section / École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). She has been the EHESS Directrice d'études since 1981.
Together with her American colleague David Herlihy , she wrote a work on the Florentine Catasto from 1427, which is considered a milestone in modern social history. In numerous publications she devoted herself to the Society of Florence in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1993 she was responsible for volume 2 of the history of women and worked on many other major French projects on the history of the family and private life. In 2000, the Paris publisher Fayard published the book L'ombre des ancêtres: essai sur l'imaginaire médiéval de la parenté . The German translation is entitled Family Trees: An Illustrated History of Ancestry and was published in 2004 by Knesebeck Verlag .
Prizes and awards
- Bronze medal of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (1979)
- Prix Ultimo Novecento (1991)
- Prix Monseigneur Marcel (1991)
- Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite (1993)
- Officier des Palmes académiques (1986, 1997)
- Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from RSA (2003)
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Honorary doctorate
- of the Institut universitaire européen, Florence (2004)
- from the University of Pisa (2008)
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (2008)
Works (selection)
- Les maîtres du marbre carrare , 1300 - 1600, Paris: SEVPEN, 1969
- with D. Herlihy: Les Toscans et leurs familles. Une étude du Catasto Florentin de 1427 , Paris 1978
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Temps, mémoire, tradition au Moyen Âge , Université de Provence, service des publications, Aix-en-Provence 1983
- German translation: The house, the name, the bride's treasure. Strategies and rituals in the social life of the Renaissance, from the French by Alexandre Métraux, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1995
- La maison et le nom: stratégies et rituels dans l'Italie de la Renaissance , Paris, EHESS, 1990
- Storia delle donne in occidente. (German: History of Women / Vol. 2. Middle Ages), 1997
- La famiglia e le donne nel rinascimento a Firenze. Roma Laterza, 1995
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L'ombre des ancêtres: essai sur l'imaginaire médiéval de la parenté, Fayard, Paris 2000
- German translation: family trees. Translated by Egbert Baqué , Knesebeck, Munich 2004
Web links
- Literature by and about Christiane Klapisch-Zuber in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Christiane Klapisch-Zuber: Carrare et ses marbres: 1300-1600 - Sudoc. Retrieved December 2, 2018 (French).
- ↑ a b Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. In: CRH website. Retrieved December 2, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Dupaquier, Jacques: Herlihy D., Klapisch-Zuber C. - Les Toscans et leurs familles. Une étude du Catasto Florentin de 1427 . In: Population . tape 34 , no. 1 , 1979 ( persee.fr [accessed December 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Dirk Schümer: Review: Non-fiction book: Everyone their own renaissance . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 2, 2018]).
- ^ Prix Monseigneur Marcel | Académie française. Retrieved December 2, 2018 (French).
- ^ The Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award - Renaissance Society of America. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian, specialist in the European Middle Ages |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thann |