Anne Zink is a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and honorary professor of

modern history The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history. It was originally applied to the history of Europe and Western history for events that came after the Middle Ages, often from around the year 1500, ...

. A student of

Pierre Goubert Pierre Goubert (; 25 January 1915 – 16 January 2012) was a French historian. A member of the Annales School, he is considered one of the founders of historical demography and modern rural history. He was a noted specialist on the 17th century ...

, she specializes in the history of the

Ancien Régime ''Ancien'' may refer to * the French word for " ancient, old" ** Société des anciens textes français * the French for "former, senior" ** Virelai ancien ** Ancien Régime ** Ancien Régime in France {{disambig ...

Biography

She is the daughter of the poet and Marthe Cohn. Her brother is writer Michel Zink and her sister is mathematician Odile Favaron. Anne Zink was a student at the École normale supérieure de Sèvres, studying history and geography, receiving a third-cycle doctorate in 1965 and a

State doctorate State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

in 1985.

Career

She was an assistant professor at the Université de Paris X-Nanterre. She was named professor of modern history at the université Clermont-Ferrand-II. Her works in

social history Social history, often called history from below, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...

are based on extensive archival research, reconstructing the lives of small communities. She has become one of the foremost experts on rural life in southwestern France under the Ancien Régime. Her research takes place at the

École des Hautes études en sciences sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (, EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conj ...

(EHESS) in Paris. Her work is situated at the crossroads of history, geography, ethnology, and law. She has made several studies of the history of

Sephardic Judaism Sephardic law and customs are the law and customs of Judaism which are practiced by Sephardim or Sephardic Jews ( "Jews of Spain"); the descendants of the historic Jewish community of the Iberian Peninsula, what is now Spain and Portugal. Many ...

in France, particularly in the southwest.Anne Zink, « Une niche juridique, L’installation des Juifs à Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne au XVIIe siècle,» Annales, Histoire Sciences Sociales, 1994, vol. 49, n° 3, pp. 639-669.

Publications

* ''Azereix. La vie d'une communauté rurale à la fin du XVIIIe siècle'', Paris : S.E.V.P.E.N., 1969. * ''Pays et paysans gascons sous l'ancien régime'', Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. * ''L'Héritier de la maison : Géographie coutumière du Sud-ouest de la France'', Paris : Éditions de l'ÉHESS, 1993. . * ''Clochers et troupeaux : Les communautés rurales des Landes et du Sud-ouest de la France avant la Révolution'', Talence :

Presses universitaires de Bordeaux The University of Bordeaux (, ) is a public research university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Talence. There are also se ...

, 1997. . * ''Pays ou circonscriptions : Les collectivités territoriales de la France du Sud-Ouest'', Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 2000. . * She has also published numerous articles which have been compiled in works such as: ** Études réunies en l'honneur de Pierre Goubert, Toulouse, 1984 ** Mélanges en l'honneur de Robert Mandrou, Paris, 1985

References

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