Teacher in charge of the BULLES (Bibliothèque d'UFR Langage, Lettres Et Spectacle) for UFR LLASIC
Responsible for teaching literature in the bi-national Italian Studies-French Studies course of the LLCER master's degree (UGA and University of Padua).
Co-director, with Joëlle Ducos, of Dictionnairedu Français Scientifique Médiéval (DFSM)
Co-director, with Maaike Van Der Lugt, of the Aldebrandin online project
Director of the NAMA program (Naming Trees in the Middle Ages)
Member of the scientific committee of the "Piccola Biblioteca di studi medievali e rinascimentali", a collection edited by Luca Pierdominici (Fano, Aras Edizioni).
Board member of SLLMOO (Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oïl)
Disciplines taught
French literature (11th-15th centuries), medieval culture and literary history of the Middle Ages
Medieval French language and history of French
Research topics
Section CNU : 09 French language and literature
Research laboratory: Litt&Arts UMR 5316, ISA center (Imaginaire et Socio-Anthropologie), axis 1 "Nouvelles philologies" ("New philologies")
Environmental humanities (11th-mid16th c.)
Seasons and the notion of landscape in medieval texts
Medieval knowledge in literature and treatises (agronomy, botany, geology, garden design and rural architecture), circulation of texts across Europe, translation from Latin into Middle French, study of specialized French lexicon, text editing
Contemporary creations of "medieval" gardens, a heritage issue
Curriculum vitae
HDR "La terre et les lettres (XIVe-XVe siècles)" (Land and letters (14th-15th centuries))
Doctor of Medieval Studies
Professeur agrégé de lettres modernes
Annual lectures in the2nd year of the Master's program "Historic Gardens, Heritage and Landscapes", directed by Monique Mosser, École d'Architecture de Versailles from 2003 to 2011.
ATER then PRAG at the Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences humaines d'Angers (ancient French, history of the French language, medieval literature and civilization, levels L2, L3, M1, M2, CAPES and agrégation) September1, 1997 to January 31, 2007
Further information
1. Work
Le Livre des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx de Pierre des Crescens, vol. 1: Introduction et texte (livres I-VIII), Paris, Champion, 2023, 806 p. (Classiques français du Moyen Âge)
"Philippe Walter. Itinéraire d'un médiéviste des champs", preface to "Si est tens a fester": hommage à Philippe Walter, studies compiled by Kôji Watanabe, Tokyo, CEMT Editions, 2022, p. 5-9.
"Preface" [in English] for the book Installation Art as Experience of Self, in Space and Time, edited by Ch. Vial-Kayser and S. Coëllier, Wilmington, Vernon Press, 2021
4. Articles in international journals
"Villon et Saturne: un mélancolique se souciant du monde. Question d'ethos et d'écriture",Le Moyen Âge, 2022/1 (tome CXXVIII), Isolement et ouverture au monde, É. Gaucher and A. Vilain eds. Vilain, p. 31-48. Available online: https: //www.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age-2022-1-page-31.htm
"François Villon en hiver", The Chuo Univ. Review, no. 318, January 2022, pp. 56-62, translated into Japanese by Kôji and Yumiko Watanabe.
5. Collective work chapter
"Le Livre des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx. Les savoirs des campagnes à la fin du Moyen Âge", p. 47-62 in: Les Savoirs ruraux du Moyen Âge à nos jours, dir. J. Lamy and S. Vabre, preface J.-M. Moriceau, Rennes, PUR, 2023. Vabre, preface by J.-M. Moriceau, Rennes, PUR, 2023. Available online: https: //books.openedition.org/pur/189574
6. Guest lectures
October 5, 2023: "Le fumier dans les traités agronomiques médiévaux" (Manure in medieval agronomic treatises), Poitiers, Espace Mendès France, as part of the study day "Le fumier au Moyen Âge: amendement ou souillure?" (Manure in the Middle Ages: amendment or defilement?), under the supervision of P.-M. Joris (CESCM) and J. Ducos (Sorbonne University).
March 15, 2023: KU Leuven (Belgium), Institut LECTIO, "Le Liber ruralium commodorum de Pietro de' Crescenzi: un traité d'agriculture du XIVe siècle traduit à travers l'Europe et notamment, en français".
December 2022: "Contemporary 'medieval' gardens", at Lausanne University
February 2021: "Weather forecasts by shepherds in the Middle Ages", presentation at the "Perception du climat" seminar, an interdisciplinary seminar organized by Marie-Hélène Pépin (Météo France), Martin de la Soudière (ethnologist), Martine Tabeaud (climatologist) and Anouchka Vasak (literature), at CERES (Centre de formation sur l'environnement et la société), École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm, Paris).
December 2020: "Paysages dans la poésie de la fin du Moyen Âge : l'exemple d'Eustache Deschamps" (in videoconference), in the seminar "Culture et vulgarisation dans la France médiévale", directed by Joëlle Ducos (Sorbonne Université), 2019-2020 theme "Lire le paysage".
7. Doctoral supervision
thesis defended in 2020: Audrey Dominguez, Histoires des noms des plantes : le Jardin médicinal d'Antoine Mizauld (CIFRE funding)
thesis defended in 2023: Alice Laforêt, Connaissances de l'arbre au Moyen Âge. Botanical knowledge and discourse in encyclopedias, herbariums and agronomic texts (12th-15th centuries).
Émilie Demouselle, La Maniere d'enter et planter en jardins. Study of the diffusion of agronomic treatises in French from Pietro de' Crescenzi to Charles Estienne and Jean Liébault (1373-1564) (UGA doctoral contract funding)
Jeanne Mousnier-Lompré, Les Miroirs aux princesses. Reflets et facettes littéraires du pouvoir féminin à la fin du Moyen Âge (ENS doctoral contract funding, co-supervisor E. Doudet, University of Lausanne, and co-supervision by María Morras, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
8. Reports and bibliographical work
Review Liz Herbert McAvoy, Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2021, XVI-385 p. and 6 pl. (Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages), Le Moyen Âge, t. 129/1, 2023
Compte rendu Richard de Fournival et les sciences au XIIIe siècle, dir. J. Ducos and C. Lucken, Florence, Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018, 443 p. (Micrologus' Library), Romania, t. 138, 2020, p. 232-237
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