Dominique Julia (born 1940) is a 20th and 21st-century French historian. He is mainly interested in the periods 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 ...

and the French Revolution, as well as the

history of religions The history of religion is the written record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE). The prehistory of religion involves the st ...

and the

history of education The history of education, like other history, extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included virtually every nation. The earliest known formal school was develope ...

Biography

Dominique Julia is an alumnus of the

École normale supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

(class of 1960 Lettres) and is agrégé d'histoire. He was director of research at the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

and taught at the

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality, established by its founding member states to contribu ...

in Florence (1990-1994). He directed the Centre d'anthropologie religieuse européenne (EHESS) from 1994 to 2005, in tandem with Philippe Boutry. He is one of France's leading specialists in the history of education under the Ancien Régime. His work on the history of French colleges, from monographic studies to the large dictionary of colleges co-edited with his wife Marie-Madeleine Compère, makes him one of the most internationally recognized researchers in the field. At the same time, he worked on the clergy, then on the religious history of Catholicism before the French Revolution. Two collections of works, one devoted to education, the other to pilgrimages, bring together his principal works, carried out over fifty years of research. The

Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

awarded her the Madeleine-Laurain-Portemer prize in 2017 for her body of work.

Parcours

Dominique Julia is a former student of the

(class 1960 Lettres) and agrégé d'histoire. He was research director at the

and has taught at the

at Florence. His work ''Une institution révolutionnaire et ses élèves'' was the culmination of twenty years of research.

Publications (selection)

*1988
''L'éducation des ecclésiastiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles'' (article)
on Persée *1991
''Enfance et citoyenneté. Bilan historiographique et perspectives de recherches sur l'éducation et l'enseignement pendant la période révolutionnaire''. (Deuxième partie) (article)
on Persée *2000

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et ...

, Paris : Éditions de Boccard, 519 p. *2016: ''Le Voyage aux saints. Les pèlerinages dans l'Occident moderne (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)'', Paris,

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...

, 384 p.

References

External links

List of publications
on CAIRN

on MEET

on

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Dominique Julia
on IESR 1940 births Living people 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians French historians of religion École Normale Supérieure alumni {{France-historian-stub