Etienne Anheim
Born in 1973, former student of the ENS Fontenay/St-Cloud (1993-1998), agrégé d'histoire (1996), doctor of history (2004), former member and then CNRS researcher at the École française de Rome (2002-2006), Etienne Anheim’s work first focused on the history of scholarly culture in the late Middle Ages, in particular on scholasticism and polyphonic music, and continued with his doctoral dissertation on culture (music, painting, literary and theological production) at the court of Avignon under the reign of Pope Clement VI (1342-1352).
His research currently focuses more on the economic, social, and material history of painting as well as, more broadly, on the history of written practices between the 13th and 15th centuries, from literary figures such as Petrarch to library inventories and accounting records, while at the same time addressing questions of historiography and the epistemology of history.
Anheim is a member of the editorial boards of the Revue de Synthèse, Médiévales and Annales.