Cécile Morrisson (born 16 June 1940) is a French historian and

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics, numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin , genitive of ). Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholar-researchers who use coi ...

. She is Director of Research emeritus at the

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and specializes in the study of the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived History of the Roman Empire, the events that caused the ...

Biography

Cécile Morrisson was born on 16 June 1940 in

Dinan Dinan (; ) is a walled Brittany, Breton town and a commune in France, commune in the Côtes-d'Armor Departments of France, department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Léhon was merged into Dinan. Geography Inst ...

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. She studied at the

École normale supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

, earned her

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in history and obtained her doctorate in history at

École normale supérieure (Paris) The – PSL (; also known as ENS, , Ulm or ENS Paris) is a ''grande école'' in Paris, France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL). Due to its selectivity, historical role, and influence within F ...

(ENS-Ulm). She was director of the department of coins, medals and antiquities of the

Bibliothèque nationale de France The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...

. She is Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS and Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics at

Dumbarton Oaks Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife ...

, Washington, D.C.

Distinctions

* Knight of the Legion of Honour * Knight of the National Order of Merit * Knight of the Academic Palms Morrisson is a member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

since December 11, 2015. She was awarded the

Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society The Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society was first awarded in 1883. It is awarded by the Royal Numismatic Society and is one of the highest markers of recognition given to numismatists. The president and Council award the medal annually to an "in ...

in 1994, and the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

's Derek Allen Prize for numismatics in 1999.

Publications

* Cécile Morrisson, ''Les Croisades'', Paris : PUF, 1969 * Cécile Morrisson, ''Catalogue des monnaies byzantines de la Bibliothèque nationale'', Paris, 1970 ** book 1 : D'Anastase Ier à Justinien II (491-711) ** book 2 : De Philippicus à Alexis III (711-1204) * Cécile Morrisson and Tommaso Bertelè, ''Numismatique byzantine suivie de deux éludes inédites sur les monnaies des Paléoloques'', Wetteren, 1978 * Roger Guéry, Cécile Morrisson and Hédi Slim, ''Recherches archéologiques franco-tunisiennes à Rougga'', Rome, 1982 ** book 3 : Le trésor de monnaies d'or byzantines * Cécile Morrisson, Claude Brenot, Jean-Noël Barrandon, Jean-Pierre Callu, J. Poirier and Robert J. Halleux, ''L'Or monnayé'', book 1 : Purification et altérations de Rome à Byzance, Paris, 1985 * Catherine Abadie-Reynal, Vassiliki Kravari, Jacques Lefort and Cécile Morrisson, ''Hommes et richesses dans l'Empire byzantin'', vol. 1-2, Paris, 1989-1991 * Jean-Claude Cheynet, Cécile Morrisson and Werner Seibt, ''Sceaux byzantins de la collection Henri'' Seyrig, Paris, 1991 * Cécile Morrisson, ''La numismatique'', Paris, 1992 * Cécile Morrisson, ''Monnaie et finances à Byzance'', Aldershot: Variorum, 1994. * Cécile Morrisson and Bernd Kluge, ''A Survey of Numismatic Research 1990-1995'', Berlin, 1997 * Cécile Morrisson, ''Les Échanges au Moyen Âge: Justinien, Mahomet, Charlemagne; trois empires dans l'économie médiévale'', Dijon, 2000 * Denis Feissel, Cécile Morrisson et Jean-Claude Cheynet, ''Trois donations byzantines au Cabinet des Médailles : Froehner (1925); Schlumberger (1929); Zacos (1998)'', Paris, 2001 (exposition organised on the occasion of the XXe Congrès International des Etudes Byzantines à Paris, 16 July - 14 October 2001) * Cécile Morrisson, ''Le Monde byzantin'', book 1 : L'Empire romain d'Orient: 330-641, Paris : PUF, 2004 * Jacques Lefort, Cécile Morrisson and Jean-Pierre Sodini, ''Les Villages dans l'Empire byzantin, IVe-XVe siècle'', Paris, 2005 * Cécile Morrisson, Vladislav Popovic and Vujadin Ivaniševic, ''Les Trésor monétaires byzantins des Balkans et d'Asie Mineure (491-713)'', Paris, 2006 * Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson, ''The Byzantine Economy'', Cambridge, 2007. * Cécile Morrisson (and John William Nesbitt,''Catalogue of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art . 6: Emperors, patriarchs of Constantinople, addenda'', Washington, DC, 2009 * Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson, ''Le monde byzantin. Byzance et ses voisins 1204 - 1453'', book 3: L'empire grec et ses voisins, XIIIe - XVe siècle, Paris, 2011 * Cécile Morrisson, ''Trade and Markets in Byzantium'', Washington, DC, 2012 * Cécile Morrisson, ''Byzance et sa monnaie (IVe - XVe siècle). Précis de numismatique byzantine, suivi du catalogue de la collection Lampart'', Paris, 2015 * Cécile Morrisson and Georg-D. Schaaf, ''Byzance et sa monnaie: IVe-XVe siècle: précis de numismatique byzantine'', Paris, 2015

References

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