Dominique de Courcelles

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Dominique de Courcelles (born June 10, 1953 in Paris ) is a French historian of ideas .

Life

Studies and Research

She attended the École nationale des chartes (National College for Document Research). She became an archivist , palaeographer , and architectural conservator . She was a student of Michel Mollat ​​du Jourdin , Jacques Monfrin and Yves-Marie Bercé . She was a scientific member of the Casa de Velázquez between 1983 and 1986. She was also a student of Albert Hauf and Martí de Riquer . She received her doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (College of Social Science Studies) in 1988. She is also a graduate of theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic Institute of Paris).

She is Research Director of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research). From 1993 to 2000 she was a member of the Spanish Golden Age Research Center, headed by Agustín Redondo. From 2000 to 2015 she was a member of the Center d'études en rhétorique, philosophie et histoire des idées (Study Center for Rhetoric, Philosophy and History of Ideas) at the École normal supérieure de Lyon (Normal University of Lyon), whose director Pierre-François Moreau is. She is a researcher at the École nationale des chartes (National College for Document Research ). Since it belongs to the Center Jean Mabillon (Center Jean Mabillon), which is directed by Olivier Poncet .

From 1988 to 2005 she was a teacher at the Institut de sciences et théologie des religions (Institute for Science and Theology of Religions) at the Catholic University of Paris . Since 1998 she has been a teacher of the comparative history of cultures and religions at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the École polytechnique (Polytechnic School). From 2002 to 2008 she was a teacher of ethics and management of a continuous development at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris ( Paris School of Economic Studies). She is also a teacher of the economic morality of the three monotheisms at the Paris-Dauphine University .

From 2005 to 2015 she was a teacher at the seminar “Humanism, Mysticism, Cosmologies: Literature, Painting, Cinema” at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (National Institute for Art History). She has also been a teacher at the Center de recherche sur les arts et le langage (Center for Research on Art and Languages) of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of Social Sciences). She was also a teacher at the Center des études cinématographiques (Center for Cinema Studies) at the University of Paris III . She has organized various symposiums in France and abroad, and various exhibitions.

Since 2015 she has been part of the Théta-Théorie et histoire de l'esthétique, du technique et des arts (Théta-theory and history of aesthetics, technology and art) laboratory, whose director is Pierre Caye from the École normal supérieure (Normal University of Paris) Paris Sciences Lettres Research University (PSL) is.

In 2015 her project was “La raison du merveilleux à la Renaissance et dans la première modernité” (Reason of Miracles during the Renaissance and First Modernity) from the Paris Sciences Lettres Research University ( École normal supérieure (Paris) ) (Normal University of Paris ) awarded.

Main research areas

After studying history , art history , philology , philosophy , literature and theology , Dominique de Courcelles wrote her first research works on the following topics: Les ex-voto marins du Roussillon (The sea motifs from Roussillon ) (Master in history by Michel Mollat ​​du Jourdin checked); the illuminated manuscripts from the Roman de la Rose on the European libraries (Masters in Art History reviewed by Jacques Thirion and Marie-Madeleine Gauthier ); La parole risquée de Raymond Lulle entre le christianisme, le judaïsme et l'islam (Ramon Llull's dangerous word between Christianity, Judaism and Islam) (Master in theology reviewed by Jean Greisch ); Les goigs de Catalogne: entre le corps, l'image et la voix (The goigs of Catalonia: between body, soul and voice) (doctoral thesis reviewed by Louis Marin ).

Her research works are particularly concerned with Hispanic Studies  : Catalonia , Valencian Country , Balearic Islands (especially Ramon Llull , but also Ausiàs March , Bernat Metge , Joan Martorell , Tirant lo Blanc etc.); Spain during the Renaissance and its golden century ( Teresa of Ávila , John of the Cross , Pedro Mexía , Miguel de Cervantes , etc.); New Spain ( Mexico ) ( Bernal Díaz del Castillo , Bernardino de Sahagún , Antonio de Saavedra y Guzmán , Remedios Varo , etc.). Her publications also deal with authors such as B. Margareta Porete , Hadewijch , Augustinus von Hippo , Nikolaus von Kues , Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim , Paracelsus , Michel de Montaigne , Angélique Arnauld etc.

Her research has two main directions: 1) Mysticism regarding philosophy and literary and artistic creation during the end of the Middle Ages , the first modern age and also in the world today. 2) Interpretation of the four elements in literature , architecture , painting and film production .

Advice on today's issues

Dominique de Courcelles has done some research on contemporary issues and problems. In 2009 she made the film Entre le Feu et l'Eau (Between Fire and Water). This film deals with the four elements teaching and water delivery in the mega city of Mexico. The film was exhibited on June 5, 2009 in New York during United Nations Day for the Environment. It has also been exhibited in all continents (e.g. 2010 at the Shanghai International Exhibition). From 2009 to 2015 she was a member of the advisory board of Ateliers de la Terre (earthworks). This society has not existed since 2015. In January 2014 at the Fondation Singer-Polignac (Singer-Polignac-Stiftung) she was director of the international meeting «Actes pour une économie juste» (Procedure for a just economy). She is also a member of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean , Rovira i Virgili University ( Tarragona , Spain).

PhD thesis management

Dominique de Courcelles is examining various doctoral theses on the history of ideas ( philosophy , economics , art , religion ) at the École normal supérieure (Paris) ( Paris normal university) and at the École normal supérieure de Lyon ( Lyon normal university). Since 1994 she has been in charge of the “Cultural Exchange” seminar (six sessions approximately per year).

International significance

Dominique de Courcelles is invited every year to visit universities and research centers abroad. Dominique de Courcelles is a member of the Hispanic American Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Humanities of Mexico. In 2003 she was a teacher at the Marcel Battalion Seminar of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico . She is a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres of Barcelona , Spain and of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute for Catalan Studies) in Barcelona (Spain). In 2004 she became a member of the Collège international de philosophie (International College of Philosophy), Paris. In 2013 she received the Serra d'Or Critique Prize for the Catalan version (2012) of her work on Ramon Llull .

Works

Here is a complete selection of works to be found by Dominique de Courcelles' works of the last decade.

Books

  • La parole risquée de Raymond Lulle; entre le judaïsme, le christianisme et l'islam . Paris, Librairie philosophique Vrin, 1992. (French)
  • Augustine ou le génie de l'Europe . Paris. Ed. Jean-Claude Lattès. 1995. (French)
  • Montaigne au risque du Nouveau Monde . Paris. Ed. Brepols. 1996. (French)
  • Le Sang de Port-Royal . Paris, Éd. de l'Herne. 1996. (French)
  • Stigmates , «Cahiers de l'Herne». Paris, Éd. de l'Herne. 2000. (French)
  • Langages mystiques et avènement de la modernité . Paris. Ed. Champion, 2003. (French)
  • Voyage d'herbe et de pluie . Bari: Schena Editore, Collana Poesia e Racconto. 2006. 140 p. (poetic and philosophical fairy tale). (French)
  • De soplo y de espejo: Lorca-Gades-Saura en Bodas de sangre . Barcelone, Ed. Alpha decay. 2007. (Spanish)
  • Enjeux philosophiques de la mystique . Grenoble. Ed. Millon. 2007 (Directrice, ouvrage collectif). (French)
  • Global diversity: pour une approche multiculturelle du management . Ed. École Polytechnique. 2008. (French)
  • Voir Dieu, la vision mystique . (Directrice, dossier collectif). Religions & Histoire, Éd. Faton. 2008. (French)
  • Ecrire l'histoire, écrire des histoires dans le monde hispanique . Paris. Librairie philosophique Vrin. 2009. 410 p. (French)
  • Escribir historia, escribir historias en el mundo hispánico . México, Ed. UNAM, 2011. 428 p. (Spanish)
  • Cants de Mort d'Ausiàs March . Valencia. Institució Alfons el Magnànim. Biblioteca d'Authors Valencians. 2010. (Catalan)
  • Histoire philosophique et culturelle des éléments 1 -Goûter la Terre . Paris. Ed. de l'Ecole des chartes. 2015 (director, entire plant). (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Decree of September 9th, 1975 appointing the classmates of the first course of the Ecole des Chartes . Bibliothèque de l'École de Chartes . Volume 133, N. 2, pp. 446-447. (French)
  2. ↑ Appointment as architectural curator at the archives of the French Foreign Office on July 15, 1980. (French)
  3. ↑ L'écriture dans la pensée de la mort en Catalogne: les "goigs" en Catalogne de la fin du Moyen Age au XVIIIe siècle (Letter regarding the thought of death: The "goigs" of Catalonia from the end of the Middle Ages to the 18th century ). PhD thesis in humanities, reviewed by Louis Marin (EHESS, 1988). (French)

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personal data
SURNAME Courcelles, Dominique de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian of ideas
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris