Cécile Morrisson
Cécile Morrisson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 June 1940 (age 84) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure (Paris) (ENS-Ulm) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and numismatist |
Cécile Morrisson (born 16 June 1940) is a French historian and numismatist. She is Director of Research emeritus at the French National Center for Scientific Research and specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire.
Biography
[edit]Cécile Morrisson was born on 16 June 1940 in Dinan, France.[1] She studied at the École normale supérieure,[2] earned her Agrégation in history and obtained her doctorate in history at École normale supérieure (Paris) (ENS-Ulm).[1][3]
She was director of the department of coins, medals and antiquities of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.[4] She is Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS and Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.[1]
Distinctions
[edit]- Knight of the Legion of Honour[1]
- Knight of the National Order of Merit[1]
- Knight of the Academic Palms[1]
Morrisson is a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since December 11, 2015.[1] She was awarded the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1994, and the British Academy's Derek Allen Prize for numismatics in 1999.
Publications
[edit]- Cécile Morrisson, Les Croisades, Paris : PUF, 1969
- Cécile Morrisson, Catalogue des monnaies byzantines de la Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1970
- book 1 : D'Anastase Ier à Justinien II (491-711)
- book 2 : De Philippicus à Alexis III (711-1204)
- Cécile Morrisson and Tommaso Bertelè, Numismatique byzantine suivie de deux éludes inédites sur les monnaies des Paléoloques, Wetteren, 1978
- Roger Guéry, Cécile Morrisson and Hédi Slim, Recherches archéologiques franco-tunisiennes à Rougga, Rome, 1982
- book 3 : Le trésor de monnaies d'or byzantines
- Cécile Morrisson, Claude Brenot, Jean-Noël Barrandon, Jean-Pierre Callu, J. Poirier and Robert J. Halleux, L'Or monnayé, book 1 : Purification et altérations de Rome à Byzance, Paris, 1985
- Catherine Abadie-Reynal, Vassiliki Kravari, Jacques Lefort and Cécile Morrisson, Hommes et richesses dans l'Empire byzantin, vol. 1-2, Paris, 1989-1991
- Jean-Claude Cheynet, Cécile Morrisson and Werner Seibt, Sceaux byzantins de la collection Henri Seyrig, Paris, 1991
- Cécile Morrisson, La numismatique, Paris, 1992
- Cécile Morrisson, Monnaie et finances à Byzance, Aldershot: Variorum, 1994. ISBN 0-86078-401-0
- Cécile Morrisson and Bernd Kluge, A Survey of Numismatic Research 1990-1995, Berlin, 1997
- Cécile Morrisson, Les Échanges au Moyen Âge: Justinien, Mahomet, Charlemagne; trois empires dans l'économie médiévale, Dijon, 2000
- Denis Feissel, Cécile Morrisson et Jean-Claude Cheynet, Trois donations byzantines au Cabinet des Médailles : Froehner (1925) ; Schlumberger (1929) ; Zacos (1998), Paris, 2001 (exposition organised on the occasion of the XXe Congrès International des Etudes Byzantines à Paris, 16 July - 14 October 2001)
- Cécile Morrisson, Le Monde byzantin, book 1 : L'Empire romain d'Orient: 330-641, Paris : PUF, 2004 ISBN 2-13-052006-5
- Jacques Lefort, Cécile Morrisson and Jean-Pierre Sodini, Les Villages dans l'Empire byzantin, IVe-XVe siècle, Paris, 2005
- Cécile Morrisson, Vladislav Popovic and Vujadin Ivaniševic, Les Trésor monétaires byzantins des Balkans et d'Asie Mineure (491-713), Paris, 2006
- Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson, The Byzantine Economy, Cambridge, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-84978-4
- Cécile Morrisson (and John William Nesbitt,Catalogue of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art . 6: Emperors, patriarchs of Constantinople, addenda, Washington, DC, 2009
- Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson, Le monde byzantin. Byzance et ses voisins 1204 - 1453, book 3: L'empire grec et ses voisins, XIIIe - XVe siècle, Paris, 2011
- Cécile Morrisson, Trade and Markets in Byzantium, Washington, DC, 2012
- Cécile Morrisson, Byzance et sa monnaie (IVe - XVe siècle). Précis de numismatique byzantine, suivi du catalogue de la collection Lampart, Paris, 2015
- Cécile Morrisson and Georg-D. Schaaf, Byzance et sa monnaie: IVe-XVe siècle: précis de numismatique byzantine, Paris, 2015
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Morrisson Cécile". Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ "L'annuaire Cécile Morrisson". Association des anciens élèves. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ "Cécile Morrisson". PUF. 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ "Séance en l'honneur de Madame Cécile Morrisson". Société française de numismatique. 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
Categories:
- 1940 births
- French Byzantinists
- French numismatists
- Scholars of Byzantine numismatics
- Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Corresponding Members of the Academy of Athens (modern)
- Corresponding Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études
- Harvard University faculty
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- People from Dinan
- Living people
- 20th-century French historians
- 21st-century French historians
- 20th-century French women writers
- 21st-century French women writers
- French women historians
- Women numismatists