Thus far, Professor Hebbard has taught our F300 course Introduction to French/Francophone Studies, F361 La France médiévale (jusqu’à 1500), and a graduate course on Lyric in the Medieval Mediterranean. As announced previously on these pages, she served as visiting assistant professor here in 2017-18 and came to Indiana University after two years at the University of New Hampshire and a successful Ph.D. Hebbard has joined the tenure-track faculty of the Department of French and Italian as assistant professor of French starting in August 2018. Now, she is currently carrying in partnership with the Institut national d'histoire de l'art the project 'Color: artefacts, material and cognition', whose aim is to create a database to collect and to make interoperable data from analyzes of color materials produced by research laboratories on artworks.The College of Arts & Sciences Department of French and ItalianĮlizabeth K. She participated in major research programs at the BnF which include digitization, scientific description, restoration, and/or dissemination of some corpus of manuscripts: Europeana Regia (2009-2012), Biblissima (2013-2019), and the Polonsky program 'France-Angleterre, 700-1200: manuscrits médiévaux de la BnF et de la British Library' (2016-2018). Carte blanche à Jan Dibbets' (BnF, 2018), and 'Chefs d’oeuvre romans de Saint-Martial de Limoges' (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges, 2019). Among her current projects are a survey of manuscripts illuminated in France during the 10th and 11th centuries (Harvey Miller) and a collective book about the links between medieval art and contemporary art (Brepols).Ĭharlotte Denoël curated four exhibitions on the art of the Early and High Middle Ages, 'Trésors carolingiens' (BnF, 2007), 'Les temps mérovingiens' (Musée de Cluny, 2016), 'Make it New. Manuscripts and their decoration are analyzed through the prism of cultural history, history of art, and iconography. Her research on the manuscripts focuses on the Early and High Middle Ages and addresses images in a transdisciplinary perspective. In 2019-2020, she was member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. More recently, the Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the BnF, 700-1200 concerns 800 manuscripts selected for their historical significance as well as for their artistic, historical or literary value.Ĭharlotte Denoël, archivist paleograph and chief curator at the Department of Manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France where she is in charge of the medieval service. The BnF has been involved in several projects such as Europeana Regia in which 651 manuscripts from BnF as well as other French libraries were digitised. During the French Revolution, monastic libraries were given to the Nation, and the National Library received a major part of them. Founded by Charles V in the Louvre, largely spread after the king’s death (a part of it is now in the Royal Library of Belgium and the British Library), the library was expanded during the Renaissance, for instance with the manuscripts brought from Italy (Milan, Naples) by kings Charles VIII and Louis XII. The Manuscripts collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France is one of the most important and richest in the world.

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