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The School's Curricula
The School provides courses in analysing and conserving historical sources, in the auxiliary history sciences and in using digital technologies to exploit data.
The Palaeographer Archivist Diploma
This degree provides future civil servants with a high-level education in preparation for careers as curators of written, graphic and monumental heritage.
Master's Degrees
The School offers three Master's degrees: ‘Digital Technologies Applied to History’, ‘Transnational History’ and ‘Digital Humanities’.
Doctoral Studies
The School provides doctoral courses in history, art history, archaeology, law and literature. The three-year doctorate is open to anyone with a master's degree.
A Campus in the Heart of Paris
The École Nationale des Chartes - PSL is located in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, an area rich in history and heritage institutions.
It is located next to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art, the Institut National du Patrimoine, the École du Louvre, the Ministry of Culture and the Service Interministériel des Archives de France, in the Marais district.
An Exceptional Library
The library, created in 1846, is where pupils, students, and teachers of the École Biblique can study and research. It is widely recognised for its wealth of material in the sciences ancillary to history. Its collections have been awarded the national CollEX label, ‘Collections of Excellence for Research’.
A rare occurrence for a study and research library, it offers free access to almost all its 145,000 volumes.
Agenda
A major player in organising national and international conferences, the École des Chartes also offers a wide range of lectures open to the general public.
Le Temps des ambassadeurs (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)
Conference
Conférence de Jean-Claude Waquet (cycle «Les grandes voix»)
Francis Lacassin. Le passeur
Seminar
Journée d’étude organisée par Julie Demange et Christophe Gauthier
Collections techniques et scientifiques en quête d’enquêtes
Seminar
Journées organisées par le CTHS et le musée des Arts et Métiers - CNAM
Les arts en France sous Charles VII
Conference
Par Mathieu Deldicque et Maxence Hermant, avec une introduction de Séverine Lepape (cycle « Chartistes à l’œuvre »)
Nouveaux regards sur les archives de l’archéologie
Seminar
Journées organisées en partenariat avec l’INHA, avec le soutien de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de l’UMR 8068 Technologie et Ethnologie des Mondes Préhistoriques (TEMPS)
Notre-Dame de Paris, l’histoire d’une cathédrale au cœur des pouvoirs
Conference
Conférence de Claude Gauvard (cycle «Les grandes voix»)
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Continuing Education
The School offers courses and seminars throughout the year for professionals working in archives, books and heritage, higher education and research.
It also welcomes enthusiasts and people involved in heritage enhancement who wish to learn more about the institution's specialisms.
Centre Jean-Mabillon
Portraits of Researchers
The School's research team, the Centre Jean-Mabillon (EA 3624), has around one hundred researchers, including forty doctoral students and an equal number of curators.
The Centre Jean-Mabillon research areas cover all the processes that explain and promote written production from the Middle Ages to the present.
Emmanuelle Bermès
Responsable pédagogique du master «Technologies numériques appliquées à l’histoire»
Christophe Gauthier
Professeur d’Histoire du livre et des médias contemporains
Marc H. Smith
Professeur de Paléographie
Marie Puren
Enseignante-chercheuse en histoire et humanités numériques - Laboratoire de recherche d’EPITA
Latest Publications
The School has an original publishing policy in the humanities and social sciences, reflecting the diversity of its teaching and specialist areas. The School's catalogue now offers close to 300 titles.
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