François Chausson, (born 1966) is a 20th-21st-century French historian, professor of

Roman history The history of Rome includes the history of the Rome, city of Rome as well as the Ancient Rome, civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential on the modern world, especially in the history of the Catholic Church, and Roman la ...

at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Francois Chausson is a specialist of the middle of the imperial court and historiography of the 2nd to 5th century and has worked on senatorial and imperial

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

as well as imperial and senatorial

prosopography Prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a group of people, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable. Research subjects are analysed by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line a ...

of the 2nd to 5th century, linked in particular to the study of ''

Augustan History The ''Historia Augusta'' (English: ''Augustan History'') is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the sim ...

''.

Bibliography

Books

*1997: collaboration, under the direction of G. Di Vita-Evrard and F. Bérard, ''L'Épigraphie dans les Mélanges de l'École française de Rome'', Rome *2003: in collaboration with E. Wolff, Consuetudinis amor. ''Fragments d’histoire romaine (IIe-Ve) offerts à Jean-Pierre Callu'', Rome, (L’Erma di Bretschneider, series "Saggi di storia antica"). * in collaboration with Ch. Bruun, ''Interpretare i bolli laterizi della zona di Roma : tra storia amministrativa, economica ed edilizia'', (Institut Finlandais d’Archéologie de Rome et École française de Rome, Rome 30 March– 1 April 2000), Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae . *2004: in collaboration with H. Inglebert, de deux tables-rondes tenues à l’Université de Paris-X Nanterre, l’une intitulée ''Costume et société dans l’Antiquité et au Haut Moyen Âge (Nanterre, 23–24 April 2001)'', Paris). *2005: in collaboration with B. Boissavit-Camus and H. Inglebert, ''La mort du Prince : agonie, deuil, funérailles, de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge (Nanterre, 2–3 April 2002)'', 2005. *2007: ''Stemmata aurea : Constantin, Justine, Théodose. Revendications généalogiques et idéologie impériale au Ve s. ap. J.-C.'', L'Erma di Bretschneider

Articles (selection)

*1995: "''Vel Iovi vel Soli'' : Quatre études autour de la Vigna Barberini (191–354)", ''MEFRA'', 107-2, (pp. 671–76
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*1997: "Theoclia sœur de Sévère Alexandre", ''MEFRA'', 109–2, (pp. 659–690
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External links

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