Catherine Virlouvet (born 13 February 1956) is a French historian, a professor of economic and social history of

ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...

. In 2011, she was appointed director of the

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 ...

, the first woman ever to hold that post.

Career

A former student of the (1976), and agrégée d'histoire, she supported a thesis on Roman history entitled ''Tessera frumentaria : les procédures de distribution du blé public à Rome de la fin de la République au Haut-Empire'' in 1986.Thèse d'histoire romaine, notice du Sudoc
A member of the École française de Rome (1983–1986), she was

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of ancient history at the

university of Rouen The University of Rouen Normandy (''Université de Rouen Normandie'') is a French university, in the Academy of Rouen. History and demographics Located not in Rouen, but in the suburb of Mont-Saint-Aignan (a "township" in the Normandy region), th ...

then director of studies of the ancient section of antiquities of the École française de Rome (1993–1999). She was appointed a professor of ancient history at the

Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille University (AMU; french: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as ''Université d'Aix-Marseille'') is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II o ...

in 1999, and heads the École française de Rome since September 2011. A student of

Claude Nicolet Claude Nicolet (15 September 1930 – 24 December 2010) was a 20th-21st century French historian, a specialist of the institutions and political ideas of ancient Rome. Biography Career A former student of the École normale supérieure, ag ...

, she specialized in economic and social history of Rome at the end of the Republic and under the High Empire.

Publications

Books

*1995: ''Tessera frumentaria. Les procédures de la distribution de blé public à Rome'', École française de Rome *2001: ''Famines et émeutes à Rome des origines de la république à la mort de Néron'', École française de Rome *2009: ''La plèbe frumentaire dans les témoignages épigraphiques : essai d’histoire sociale et administrative du peuple de Rome antique'', École française de Rome *2004: (Co-direction) ''Nourrir les cités de la Méditerranée. Antiquité-Temps modernes'', avec B. Marin, Maisonneuve & Larose, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 894 p. .

Articles

*2000: ''Les denrées alimentaires dans les archives des Sulpicii de Pouzzoles'', Cahiers Glotz, XI, (pp. 131–149) *2001: ''La tribu des soldats originaires de Rome'', Mélanges de l'École française de Rome 113, 2, (pp. 735–752)

Recordings

* ''Le peuple de Rome'', émission de Vincent Charpentier, "Le salon noir",

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, 27.03.2013, 27 min
online

References

External links

on the site of the École française de Rome
Catherine Virlouvet, La plèbe frumentaire dans les témoignages épigraphiques
on Hypothèses.org
Catherine Virlouvet, Tessera frumentaria : les procédures de la distribution de blé public à Rome. (compte rendu)
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Virlouvet, Catherine 1956 births Living people 21st-century French historians French scholars of Roman history Women classical scholars ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon alumni French women historians 21st-century French women