Arlette Jouanna
Arlette Jouanna (born Arlette Galinat, 1936 – died 29 January 2022) was a French historian and academic. She was professor emerita at l’Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III).[1][2] She was a member of the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales (CRISES). She specialised in the political and social history of sixteenth-century France, especially the history of the nobility and the French Wars of Religion.
Biography
[edit]Jouanna was a pupil at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (Sèvres).[3] She then completed a History degree in 1968 at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) where she was taught by Roland Mousnier.[4] She was awarded her PhD in 1975 for a thesis entitled 'L'idée de race en France au XVIe siècle et au début du XVIIe'. For her entire career she taught at l'Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III).
Awards, honours, prizes
[edit]- In 2008 she won the Prix François Guizot for her book La Saint-Barthélemy. Les mystères d'un crime d'Etat (The St Bartholomew's Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State) (Paris, Gallimard, 2007), awarded by the Conseil général du Calvados.[5]
- In 2013 she was awarded the Prix Chateaubriand for her book Le Pouvoir absolu : naissance de l'imaginaire politique de la royauté (Absolute Power: the Birth of the Royal Political Imaginary).[6][7]
- In 2014 she was awarded the J. Russell Major Prize, an annual prize given to a historian by the American Historical Association, for her translated book The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State.[8] The prize is awarded annually for the best work in English on any aspect of French history.
- In 2018 the Prix littéraire Montaigne de Bordeaux awarded her a Special Prize for her biography of Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne (Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2017).[9]
Selected publications
[edit]- Le devoir de révolte. La noblesse française et la gestation de l'État moderne: 1559–1661. Fayard, 1989
- La Saint-Barthélemy. Les mystères d'un crime d'Etat. Gallimard, 2007
- Le pouvoir absolu : naissance de l'imaginaire politique de la royauté. Gallimard, 2013
- Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State (trans. Joseph Bergin). Manchester University Press, 2013
- Montaigne. Gallimard, 2017
External links
[edit]Review of Jouanna's biography of Montaigne.
Interview with Jouanna about Michel de Montaigne
Interview with Jouanna about the St Bartholomew Day's Massacre
References
[edit]- ^ "'Arlette Jouanna', data.bnf.fr".
- ^ Parker, Geoffrey (2013-03-15). Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18919-3.
- ^ Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809-1960 [1].
- ^ Dhondt, Pieter; Boran, Elizabethanne (2017-07-06). Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe: From the Middle Ages to the Present. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-69103-1.
- ^ "'The 2008 Guizot Prize', guizot.com".
- ^ "Le Parisien, 5 December 2013". 5 December 2013.
- ^ "'Le Prix Chateaubriand', patrickdevedjian.fr, 4 December 2013". Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "American Historical Association, J. Russell Major Prize Recipients".
- ^ "PaySud Mag, 20 March 2018".
