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Catherine Virlouvet

b. 1956

French historian & academic

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Born 1956. Catherine Virlouvet is a French historian, university teacher, docent and director of studies.

Catherine Virlouvet (born 13 February 1956) is a French historian, a professor of economic and social history of ancient Rome. In 2011, she was appointed director of the École française de Rome, the first woman ever to hold that post.

Career A former student of the (1976), and agrégée d'histoire, she supported a thesis on Roman history entitled Tessera frumentaria: les procédures de distribution du blé public à Rome de la fin de la République au Haut-Empire (Tessera frumentaria: the procedures for distributing public wheat in Rome from the end of the Republic to the Early Empire) in 1986. A member of the École française de Rome (1983–1986), she was maître de conférences of ancient history at the university of Rouen then director of studies of the ancient section of antiquities of the École française de Rome (1993–1999). She was appointed a professor of ancient history at the Aix-Marseille University in 1999, and heads the École française de Rome since September 2011. A student of Claude Nicolet, she specialized in economic and social history of Rome at the end of the Republic and under the High Empire.

Publications Books 1995: Tessera frumentaria. Les procédures de la distribution de blé public à Rome, École française de Rome 2001: Famines et émeutes à Rome des origines de la république à la mort de Néron, École française de Rome 2009: La plèbe frumentaire dans les témoignages épigraphiques : essai d’histoire sociale et administrative du peuple de Rome antique, École française de Rome 2004: (Co-direction) Nourrir les cités de la Méditerranée. Antiquité-Temps modernes, avec B. Marin, Maisonneuve & Larose, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 894 p. .

Articles 2000: Les denrées alimentaires dans les archives des Sulpicii de Pouzzoles, Cahiers Glotz, XI, (pp. 131–149) 2001: La tribu des soldats originaires de Rome, Mélanges de l'École française de Rome 113, 2, (pp. 735–752)

Recordings Le peuple de Rome, émission de Vincent Charpentier, "Le salon noir", France Culture, 27.03.2013, 27 min, online.

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Birth century
Nationality
Education
École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Positions held
Director of the École française de Rome, Member of the École française de Rome, Directeur des études
Employers
University of Rouen-Normandy, École française de Rome, University of Provence - Aix-Marseille I
Awards
Officer of the National Order of Merit; Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres; Knight of the Legion of Honour; Officer of the French Order of Academic Palms

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Who is Catherine Virlouvet?

French historian & academic (1956-)

When was Catherine Virlouvet born?

Catherine Virlouvet was born on 13 February 1956 in Moulins.

What is Catherine Virlouvet's occupation?

Catherine Virlouvet is a historian, university teacher, docent and director of studies.

What nationality is Catherine Virlouvet?

Catherine Virlouvet is French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Catherine Virlouvet

· Wikidata: Q2408902

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