Dominique de Courcelles
Dominique de Courcelles (born in Paris on 10 June 1953) is a French historian of ideas. Biography Studies and Research Dominique de Courcelles studied at the École nationale des chartes. She became an Archiviste-paléographe (archivist and paleographer) and Conservateur du patrimoine (heritage curator). She studied with Michel Mollat du Jourdin, Jacques Monfrin, and Yves-Marie Bercé. She was a research fellow at the Casa de Velázquez 1983–1986. She also studied with Albert Hauf and Martí de Riquer. She obtained her Doctorat ès lettres at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in 1988. She also earned a master's degree in theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of Paris). She is directrice de recherche at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Center of Scientific Research). From 1993 to 2000 she was a member of the research group on the Spanish Golden Age led by Agustín Redondo. From 2000 to 2015 she was member of the group of scholars led by Pierre-François Moreau: Centre d’études en rhétorique, philosophie et histoire des idées (Research Group on Rhetoric, Philosophy, and the History of Ideas) at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.