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 race; as well as the stu ...

and honorary professor of

modern history The term modern period or modern era (sometimes also called modern history or modern times) is the period of history that succeeds the Middle Ages (which ended approximately 1500 AD). This terminology is a historical periodization that is applie ...

. A student of Pierre Goubert, 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 Michel Zink (born 5 May 1945) is a French writer, medievalist, philologist, and professor of French literature, particularly that of the Middle Ages. He is the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, a title he has ...

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 Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including 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 the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

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 (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

(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 practice of Judaism by the Sephardim, the descendants of the historic Jewish community of the Iberian Peninsula. Some definitions of "Sephardic" inaccurately include Mizrahi Jews, many of whom follow the same ...

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 (French: ''Université de Bordeaux'') is a public university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Ta ...

, 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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