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header_5_text_shadow_vertical_length=\u00a0\u00bbheader_5_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93&Prime; header_5_text_shadow_blur_strength=\u00a0\u00bbheader_5_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93&Prime; header_6_text_shadow_horizontal_length=\u00a0\u00bbheader_6_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93&Prime; header_6_text_shadow_vertical_length=\u00a0\u00bbheader_6_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93&Prime; header_6_text_shadow_blur_strength=\u00a0\u00bbheader_6_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93&Prime; text_orientation=\u00a0\u00bbjustified\u00a0\u00bb]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Le laboratoire ECHELLES (Axe Savoirs et Axe Imaginaires) et CERILAC (Axe Th\u00e9l\u00e8me) vous convie au book launch (suivi d\u2019un pot) de Lauren Mancia (CUNY), guest professor \u00e0 Paris Cit\u00e9, le 31 mars 2026 de 17h30 \u00e0 19h (b\u00e2timent Olympe de Gouges \u2013 salle 830)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Since Leopold von Ranke, historians have privileged textual sources as the chief way scholars can know history. But is there an equally rigorous extra-textual, embodied method that scholars could use to understand the past? This talk will draw from Mancia\u2019s new Cambridge Element Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method. Mancia will engage with the differences between the archive and the repertoire, between the records of historical performances and the performed, embodied movements of the historical event itself by drawing from tools from the discipline of performance studies. She will explain why historians assume they cannot use reperformance in historical inquiry and why they, in fact, should. She will show how an embodied epistemology is particularly suited to studying certain premodern historical topics, such as the subject of her specialization, medieval European monasticism. And finally, using the case of performance-lectures given at The Met Cloisters, she will show how using performance as a tool for historical investigation might work.<\/p>\n<p>Depuis Leopold von Ranke, les historiens ont privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 la source textuelle comme voie royale pour les savants souhaitant conna\u00eetre l&rsquo;Histoire. Mais existe-t-il une autre m\u00e9thode, aussi rigoureuse, permettant \u00e0 ces savants de comprendre le pass\u00e9 ? Cette rencontre s&rsquo;inspire du nouveau livre de Lauren Mancia, Cambridge Element Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method. Lauren Mancia abordera les diff\u00e9rences entre les archives et le r\u00e9pertoire, entre les enregistrements de performances historiques et les mouvements incarn\u00e9s et ex\u00e9cut\u00e9s de l&rsquo;\u00e9v\u00e9nement historique lui-m\u00eame, en s&rsquo;appuyant sur les outils issus de la discipline des \u00e9tudes sur la performance. Elle expliquera pourquoi les historiens supposent qu&rsquo;ils ne peuvent pas utiliser des \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9performances\u00a0\u00bb dans leurs recherches historiques alors qu&rsquo;ils devraient, en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, le faire. Elle d\u00e9montrera comment l&rsquo;\u00e9pist\u00e9mologie incarn\u00e9e est particuli\u00e8rement avis\u00e9e pour \u00e9tudier certains sujets historiques pr\u00e9modernes, comme celui de sa sp\u00e9cialisation : le monachisme de l&rsquo;Europe m\u00e9di\u00e9val. Enfin, \u00e0 partir de l&rsquo;exemple des conf\u00e9rences-performances donn\u00e9es au Met Cloisters, elle montrera comment la performance peut \u00eatre utilis\u00e9e comme outil d&rsquo;investigation historique.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Workshop \u2013 Reperforming the Middle Ages (7th April 2026)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Le <strong>workshop<\/strong> participatif sera men\u00e9 par Lauren Mancia le <strong>7 avril 2026<\/strong>\u00a0de 17h30 \u00e0 19h30 \u00e0 Paris Cit\u00e9 (b\u00e2timent Olympe de Gouges \u2013 salle 830, Place Paul Ricoeur 75013 Paris)<\/p>\n<div>How is embodied epistemology suited to studying certain\u00a0historical topics? What do we find by reperforming the past? In this workshop, audiences will join historian Lauren Mancia in using the instructions of archival primary sources to reperform actions practiced in the\u00a0medieval monastery of the 11th and 12th centuries. After reperforming those actions together for 40 minutes, we will then come together to talk about how\u00a0<i>doing\u00a0<\/i>historical practices teaches us something about history, and to talk about\u00a0<i>how\u00a0<\/i>it is that we can use that doing to write historical scholarship.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Emma Bartel (<a href=\"mailto:emma.bartel@u-paris.fr\">emma.bartel@u-paris.fr<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.1&Prime; background_size=\u00a0\u00bbinitial\u00a0\u00bb background_position=\u00a0\u00bbtop_left\u00a0\u00bb background_repeat=\u00a0\u00bbrepeat\u00a0\u00bb z_index_tablet=\u00a0\u00bb500&Prime;][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb1_4&Prime;][et_pb_divider _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.1&Prime; show_divider=\u00a0\u00bboff\u00a0\u00bb z_index_tablet=\u00a0\u00bb500&Prime; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb3_4&Prime;][et_pb_divider _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.1&Prime; 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She is also a staff lecturer at the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Cloisters. A scholar of 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century monastic devotion, she is the author of three books:\u00a0<i>Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety at the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of F\u00e9camp\u00a0<\/i>(Manchester University Press, 2019; paper 2021);\u00a0<i>Meditation and Prayer at the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling Towards God\u00a0<\/i>(ARC Humanities Press, 2023); and\u00a0<i>Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method\u00a0<\/i>(Cambridge Elements, 2025).<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/people\/lauren-mancia\">https:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/people\/lauren-mancia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le laboratoire ECHELLES (Axe Savoirs et Axe Imaginaires) et CERILAC (Axe Th\u00e9l\u00e8me) vous convie au book launch (suivi d\u2019un pot) de Lauren Mancia (CUNY), guest professor \u00e0 Paris Cit\u00e9, le 31 mars 2026 de 17h30 \u00e0 19h (b\u00e2timent Olympe de Gouges \u2013 salle 830)Since Leopold von Ranke, historians have privileged textual sources as the chief&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/book-launch-embodied-epistemology-as-rigorous-historical-method-cambridge-elements-2025-lauren-mancia\/\">Lire la suite<span> Book Launch &#8211; Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method (Cambridge Elements, 2025), Lauren Mancia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":6375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1,70],"tags":[],"coauthors":[68],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agenda","category-cerilac","category-evenement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6672,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions\/6672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/cerilac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}