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**Portrait-Sylvain-Excoffon**

Portrait de Sylvain Excoffon, membre du Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (LEM/UMR 8584) et du CERCOR

Member of LEM’s cluster 4: "Institutions and religious doctrines (medieval and modern Europe and Mediterranean)", Sylvain Excoffon is a medievalist specialized in the history of religious orders from the 12th to the 15th century. He is lecturer teaching history of the Middle-Ages at the University Jean Monnet (Saint-Étienne). He is the co-editor of the collection « Analecta Cartusiana », an international collection focusing on the history of the Carthusian Order, and is in charge of the program “History of the Carthusians and the Carthusian Order” as a part of the area of research “Monastic collections” of the CERCOR.

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Fields of research

– The Carthusians and the Carthusian Order during the Middle-Ages.
– The Abbey of Chalais and the Order of Chalais during the Middle-Ages.
– Religious orders during the Middle-Ages: economic organization, social space; structuration, government, internal organization; history and construction of collective identities.

Teaching topics

– History of regular life, 9th-13th centuries.
– Political history of the Middle-Ages.
– Master’s seminars on obituary sources, sources connected to religious orders, historical semantics.

Projects

– The co-organization of Monasticon cartusiense; writings about the Carthusian and Burgundy provinces, and the provinces of France-sur-Seine and of France-sur-Loire.
– The participation to the database “Monastères”. Studies in preparation: Government, organization and social space of the Carthusian Order during the 15th century and edition of the chronicles of the Grande Chartreuse.