Dominique de Courcelles
Dominique de Courcelles (born in Paris on 10 June 1953) is a French historian of ideas. Biography Studies and Research Dominique de Courcelles studied at the École nationale des chartes. She became an Archiviste-paléographe (archivist and paleographer) and Conservateur du patrimoine (heritage curator). She studied with Michel Mollat du Jourdin, Jacques Monfrin, and Yves-Marie Bercé. She was a research fellow at the Casa de Velázquez 1983–1986. She also studied with Albert Hauf and Martí de Riquer. She obtained her Doctorat ès lettres at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in 1988. She also earned a master's degree in theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of Paris). She is directrice de recherche at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Center of Scientific Research). From 1993 to 2000 she was a member of the research group on the Spanish Golden Age led by Agustín Redondo. From 2000 to 2015 she was member of the group of scholars led by Pierre-François Moreau: Centre d’études en rhétorique, philosophie et histoire des idées (Research Group on Rhetoric, Philosophy, and the History of Ideas) at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. She is an associate researcher at the École nationale des chartes at the Centre Jean Mabillon led by Olivier Poncet. From 1988 to 2005 she taught at the Institut de sciences et théologie des religions (Institute of Sciences and the Theology of Religions) at the Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of Paris). Beginning in 1998, she taught comparative history of cultures and religions in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the École polytechnique. From 2002 to 2008 she taught the ethics and management of sustainable development at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC, European Business School). She also taught courses in the economics of the three monotheisms at the Université de Paris Dauphine. From 2005 to 2015 she taught the seminar "Humanisms, mystics, cosmologies : literature, painting, cinema" at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (National Institute for Art History) as part of the program at the Centre de recherche sur les arts et le langage (Center for Research on Arts and Language) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) and as part of the program at the Centre des études cinématographiques (Center of Cinema Studies) at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III. She has organized a long list of symposiums in France and abroad, and she also curated several art exhibitions. Since 2015 she has been a member of the research group Théta-Théorie et histoire de l’esthétique, du technique et des arts (Théta-Theory and History of Aesthetics, Technique, and the Arts), led by Pierre Caye, at the École normale supérieure-Paris (PSL). In 2015 her research project "La Raison du merveilleux à la Renaissance et dans la première modernité" (The Reason of the Marvellous in the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period) obtained an award from