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| Institut d'études médiévales | |
|---|---|
| Name | Institut d'études médiévales |
| Native name | Institut d'études médiévales |
| Established | 20th century |
| Type | Research institute |
| City | Paris |
| Country | France |
Institut d'études médiévales is a scholarly institute dedicated to the study of medieval history, literature, art, law, theology and material culture. It brings together historians, philologists, archaeologists, paleographers and art historians from European and international institutions to study periods spanning Late Antiquity to the early Modern era. The institute maintains archives, publishes journals and monographs, and hosts seminars and conferences in collaboration with national libraries, universities and museums.
Founded in the 20th century amid growing interest in medieval scholarship, the institute evolved alongside institutions such as the École des Chartes, École Normale Supérieure, Collège de France, Sorbonne University and Université Paris-Sorbonne. Early collaborations linked it to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Musée du Louvre, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art. Scholars associated with movements around Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Lucien Febvre and institutions like the Annales School shaped its interdisciplinary ethos. Over decades it engaged with projects referencing manuscripts preserved at Vatican Library, Bodleian Library, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, and archives such as the Archives Nationales (France). The institute's development intersected with conferences and networks linked to International Medieval Congress, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, British Academy, and Royal Historical Society.
The institute's mission emphasizes critical editions, paleography, codicology, diplomatics and the history of medieval institutions like the Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of France, Kingdom of England, Crown of Aragon, and the Byzantine Empire. Research themes include manuscript studies referencing works such as the Domesday Book, Carolingian Renaissance, Capetian dynasty, Ottonian dynasty, and events like the First Crusade and the Fourth Crusade. Scholars investigate literary texts tied to Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Chrétien de Troyes, Christine de Pizan, and legal sources such as the Magna Carta and Corpus Iuris Civilis. The institute studies artistic programs exemplified by the Chartres Cathedral, Sainte-Chapelle, Amiens Cathedral, and works associated with artists like Giotto, Hildegard of Bingen and Master Hugo.
The institute offers postgraduate seminars, doctoral supervision and continuing education in collaboration with Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris Nanterre, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Université de Strasbourg, and international partners such as University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Toronto, Leiden University, University of Milan, Università di Bologna, Humboldt University of Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Vienna, Charles University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca and University of Lisbon. Courses cover paleography linked to scripts like Carolingian minuscule, Gothic script, and codicology referring to collections at Monastery of Saint Gall, Abbey of Cluny, Sainte-Geneviève Abbey, and the Monastery of Monte Cassino. Specialized modules examine sources such as the Domesday Book, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Icelandic sagas, Annales Regni Francorum, and legal texts like the Assizes of Jerusalem.
The institute hosts research centers devoted to manuscript studies, medieval law, liturgy, archaeology and numismatics, with outputs appearing in journals and series alongside publishers and periodicals like Revue Mabillon, Speculum, Journal of Medieval History, Medieval Prosopography, Bulletin Monumental, Archivum Historiae Pontificiae, École Française de Rome, PSL Research University publications, and series connected to Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Projects have produced critical editions of texts by William of Tyre, Abelard, Bede, Orderic Vitalis, Peter Abelard, Anselm of Canterbury, Aquinas, Isidore of Seville, Gregory of Tours, Einhard, and documentary corpora such as cartularies from Saint-Martial de Limoges and charters from Chartres Cathedral.
Associated scholars include medievalists and related figures from institutions such as Marc Bloch, Jacques Le Goff, Georges Duby, Paul Veyne, Philippe Contamine, Régine Pernoud, Eileen Power, Joseph Strayer, Carlo Ginzburg, Natalie Zemon Davis, Jean-Claude Schmitt, Rosamond McKitterick, Michael McCormick, Christopher Wickham, Simon Keynes, Patrick Geary, Richard Southern, Denis Betten, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Franco Cardini, Catherine Cubitt, Guy Halsall, Nora Berend, Emma Cavell, Diana Greenway, Elizabeth van Houts, Heinz Löwe, Henri-Irénée Marrou, Jean-Baptiste Pitra, Jean-Rémy Palanque, Jean Favier and alumni who later worked at Palace of Versailles, Musée national du Moyen Âge, Bibliothèque nationale de France and various national academies.
The institute collaborates with libraries and museums like Bibliothèque nationale de France, Vatican Library, British Library, Bodleian Library, Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen, and participates in digital humanities projects with partners including Europeana, Gallica, Digital Scriptorium, Manuscripta Mediaevalia, Archaeological Data Service, and research networks such as Medieval Academy of America, International Medieval Society, Association des Archivistes Français, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Institut de France and European Union research programs like Horizon 2020.
Facilities include seminar rooms, paleography laboratories, conservation and digitization labs, and access to holdings at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Archives Nationales (France), the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, and manuscript collections related to Mont Saint-Michel, Abbey of Saint-Denis, Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Notre-Dame de Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, Rouen Cathedral, Amiens Cathedral, and regional archives in Normandy, Brittany, Aquitaine, Provence, Burgundy and Occitanie. Onsite resources support work with artifacts such as illuminated manuscripts, medieval seals, charters, coins linked to Merovingian dynasty, Carolingian dynasty, Capetian dynasty, and archaeological materials recovered from sites like Mont Beuvray and Bibracte.
Category:Medieval studies institutes