Christophe Duhamelle

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Christophe Duhamelle (* 1966 ) is a French historian . He is a professor at EHESS Paris and a member of the Center d'Anthropologie Religieuse Européenne located there . Duhamelle researches and publishes on the cultural history of the Old Kingdom and, in particular, on the confessionalization of early modern Germany.

Scientific career

Duhamelle studied at the École normal supérieure Fontenay-Saint-Cloud until 1985 . After Agrégation in History in 1988 he received his doctorate in 1994 and habilitated of 2006. From 1995 to 2008 he was a lecturer in early modern history at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne . Between 2000 and 2007 he worked at the Mission Historique Française in Göttingen , initially as a scientist and later as director. Since December 2008 Duhamelle has been a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Between 2010 and 2013 he was director of the historical research center Center de recherches historiques at EHESS. The historian is a member of the "Center d'Anthropologie Religieuse Européenne".

Duhamelle is active in the scientific committees of various professional associations such as the Association for the History of the Reformation , based in Heidelberg , and advises historical journals, including the journal for historical research . He also works on the editorial committee of the Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine .

Research priorities

Christophe Duhamelle researches the construction of territorial and confessional affiliations and identities in the early modern period . The Holy Roman Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries is his most important field of study. The historian regards confessionalization as a cultural mechanism of social, spatial and temporal differentiation. In contrast to traditional German church history , Duhamelle explores religion as a phenomenon that goes far beyond theological and institutional dimensions. He regards the confessional differences in the 17th and 18th centuries as part of the construction of individuals and communities, which is of great importance in the territorially and confessionally fragmented empire. Duhamelle is currently working on the religiously different calendars and timescales in early modern Germany.

He also translates historical specialist literature from German into French. In 2013 his translation of The Emperor's Old Clothes by the Münster historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger was published .

Publications (selection)

  • Une frontière abolie? Le rapprochement des calendriers catholique et protestant du Saint-Empire en 1700 , in: Bertrand Forclaz (ed.), L'expérience de la différence religieuse dans l'Europe modern (XVI-XVIIIe siècles) , Neuchâtel 2013, pp. 99–114 .
  • La frontière au village. Une identité catholique allemande au temps des Lumières , Paris 2010.
  • Edited with Philippe Büttgen: Religion ou confession? Un bilan franco-allemand sur l'époque modern (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) , Paris 2010.
  • In Search of the French Confessionalization , Art. In: Archive for Reformation History, 100, 2009.
  • Edited with Andreas Kossert and Bernhard Struck: Grenzregionen. A European comparison from the 18th to the 20th century . Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • Edited with Jürgen Schlumbohm: Marriages in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries: Patterns and strategies , Göttingen 2003.
  • Edited with Reiner Prass, Jürgen Schlumbohm and Gérard Béaur: Rural Societies in Germany and France, 18.-19. Century . Goettingen 2003.
  • L'heritage collectif. La noblesse d'Église rhénane, 17e - 18e siècles . Paris 1998.

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