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    The Centre Jean-Mabillon

    The Centre Jean-Mabillon (EA 3624) epitomizes the collective, interdisciplinary and international dimension of the historical and philological research activities taught at the Centre’s mother institution, the École nationale des chartes – PSL.

    The Centre's name is a tribute to the work of the Benedictine monks of the Saint-Maur congregation, founded in 1621 and originally housed at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey. Jean Mabillon (1632-1707) joined the congregation in 1664 and subsequently wrote his De Re diplomatica, which would published in 1681.

    Image décorative : "Jean Mabillon (1632-1707)". Gravure d'Alexis Loir, d'après une peinture de Claude-Guy Hallé, s. d.

    Jean Mabillon (1632-1707). Gravure d'Alexis Loir, d'après une peinture de Claude-Guy Hallé, s. d.

    The Centre Jean-Mabillon seeks to contribute to the advancement of historical knowledge by examining the sources used by historians, jurists and philologists, in particular written sources, their status and their uses, and by developing and producing high-quality, innovative working tools (text editions, databases), with particular reference to digital technologies.

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    Research Areas

    Its research areas are meant to cover all the processes that explain and publicise written production from the Middle Ages to the present day, through various stages from: 

    • Production conditions (Area 1) 
    • Inheritance systems (Area 2)
    • The conditions for the scholarly restitution of such historical documentation to the scientific community (Area 3)
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    Researchers

    The Centre Jean-Mabillon includes around a hundred researchers, forty doctoral students and an equal number of curators.

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    Research publications

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    Doctoral and Post-doctoral Activities

    Doctoral students at the Centre organise an annual study day and ‘Resident Researchers'’ conferences.

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    Team

    Christophe Gauthier, Director, and Édouard Vasseur, Deputy Director head the Centre.

    • Christophe Gauthier

      Professeur d’Histoire du livre et des médias contemporains

    • Édouard Vasseur

      Professeur d’Archivistique, diplomatique et histoire des institutions de l’époque contemporaine

    Administration

    Stéphanie Louis : stephanie.louis @ chartes.psl.eu

    Laboratory Advisory Board

    • Patrick Arabeyre (full member)
    • Christine Bénévent (full member)
    • Olivier Canteaut (full member)
    • Camille Desenclos (representing associate members)
    • Corentin Durand (representing doctoral students)
    • Frédéric Duval (full member)
    • Christophe Gauthier (full member)
    • Olivier Guyotjeannin (full member)
    • Vincent Jolivet (representing BIATSS staff)
    • Rémi Mathis (representing curators)
    • Sirine Pons (representing doctoral students)
    • Marie Ranquet (representing curators)
    • Marc Smith (full member)
    • Édouard Vasseur (full member)

    Postal address

    Centre Jean-Mabillon
    École nationale des chartes
    65, rue de Richelieu
    F-75002 Paris

    • HCERES 2023-24 report on the Centre Jean-Mabillon

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    • List of research activities and productions (July 2012-June 2017)

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    • Centre Jean-Mabillon Statutes

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