Mireille Corbier (born 24 May 1943) is a French historian of Classical history. Currently Research Director emerita at
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science
Basic research, also called pure research o ...
(CNRS), she has published a number of books and articles, and since 1992 has been editor-in-chief of ''
L'Année épigraphique
''L'Année épigraphique'' (''The Epigraphic Year'', standard abbreviation ''AE'') is a French publication on epigraphy (i.e the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing). It was set up by René Cagnat, as holder of the chair of 'Epigraphy an ...
''.
Career
Corbier began her studies at the
Ecole Normale Superieure (1962-1966), during which she became a Fellow of
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...
. From 1967-1972 she taught ancient history at the
University of Paris, X Nanterre. From 1972 to 1975 she was a member 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 d ...
, where she produced her monograph, ''L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare. Administration et prosopographie sénatoriale'' (1974). She then joined CNRS in 1975, meanwhile teaching anthropology at the
University of Paris VIII Vincennes.
Awards
Corbier is a
Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, and a member of several professional associations and learned societies.
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/ref> She gave the M. V. Taylor lecture for the Roman Society
The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome. The term refers to the culture of the Roman Republic, later the Roman Empire, which at its peak covered an area from present-day Lo ...
in January 2020.
Bibliography
* (1974) ''L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare. Administration et prosopographie sénatoriale.'' Rome: Ecole française de Rome.
*(1987) "L'écriture dans l'espace public romain." ''Publications de l'École Française de Rome'' 98, no. 1: 27-60.
*(1991) "Cité, territoire et fiscalité." ''Publications de l'École Française de Rome'' 143, no. 1: 629-665.
* (1999) ed. ''Adoption et fosterage.'' Paris: de Boccard.
* (2006) ''Donner à voir, donner à lire. Mémoire et communication dans la Rome ancienne.'' Paris: CNRS.
* (2011) ed. with Jean-Pierre Guilhembet. ''L’écriture dans la maison romaine.'' Paris: de Boccard''.''
References
External links
Professional profile, ''L'Année épigraphique''
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1943 births
21st-century French historians
Historians of antiquity
20th-century French historians
French anthropologists
French women anthropologists
French women historians
University of Paris faculty
French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
Living people
20th-century French women writers
21st-century French women writers
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research