Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan or Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan (born 1953) is a French historian and teacher. She is a professor at the
University of Paris-Sorbonne
Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; ) was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it m ...
. She is known for her knowledge of
Venice in the late Middle Ages.
Life
Crouzet-Pavan was born in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
in 1953. She worked first teaching history and geography to secondary school age children. She took her doctorate in 1989 based on the history of Venice.
She is known for her interest in the history of Italy and particularly her knowledge of Venice in the late Middle Ages.
She is married to another historian Professor
Denis Crouzet. She is a professor at the
University of Paris-Sorbonne
Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; ) was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it m ...
.
She won the
Prix Guizot in 2002.
In 2005, one of her books, "Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth", was published in English - thanks to a translation by Lydia Cochrane.
Works
* Sopra le acque salse. Espaces, pouvoirs et société à Venise à la fin du Moyen Âge, 1992.
* La mort lente de Torcello: histoire d'une cité disparue, Fayard, 1995.
* Venise, une invention de la ville (XIIIe-XVe siècle), Champvallon, 1997.
* Pouvoir et édilité dans l'Italie communale et seigneuriale, 2003.
* Venise triomphante, les horizons d'un mythe, Albin Michel, 1999.
* Enfers et paradis. L'Italie de Dante et de Giotto, Albin Michel, 2001.
*Towards an Ecological History of Venice
* Renaissances italiennes (1380–1500), Albin Michel, 2007. .
* Les Villes vivantes. Italie XIIIe-XVe siècles, Fayard, 2009. .
Awards
Crouzet-Pavan became a knight of the Legion of Honour in 2008. In 2012, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent. In May 2015 she became an Officer of the National Order of Merit .
References
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1953 births
Living people
20th-century French historians
French women academics
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Academic staff of Paris-Sorbonne University
French women historians
21st-century French historians