Dr Ninon Dubourg

Titre : « Ad obsequium divinum inhabilem », La reconnaissance de la condition de personne infirme par la chancellerie pontificale (xii^e – xiv^e siècles)

Résumé : Les suppliques reçues et les lettres émises par la Chancellerie apostolique entre le xii^e et le xiv^e siècle attestent la reconnaissance de l’invalidité par l’institution pontificale. Elles actent l’existence d’une infirmité physique ou mentale et autorisent le suppliant à adapter ses missions de clerc ou de chrétien en fonction de ses capacités. Ces documents se situent à la frontière entre une parole institutionnelle et des sources de la pratique. La sollicitation provoque une intense et complexe production épistolaire, mettant en évidence les acteurs engagés dans ce processus – les individus invalides et les personnels curial et ecclésiastique. Elle dévoile les législations spécifiques à l’institution et entraîne une définition de l’infirmité par la Chancellerie pontificale, catégorisant les corps invalides selon leur condition physique ou mentale. Les réponses de la Curie, basées sur la tradition de compilation de cas similaires, connus par le droit et l’enregistrement, confirment la reconnaissance de la condition de personne infirme. Les suppliques et les lettres constituent ainsi un excellent laboratoire d’analyse pour étudier le handicap médiéval dans sa relation à la papauté comme institution.

Mots clefs : Handicap – infirmité – papauté – Chancellerie pontificale – suppliques – lettres – droit canon – identité – religiosité – clercs – laïcs – Chrétienté.

Title: « Ad obsequium divinum inhabilem », The Recognition of the disabled person’s condition by the Papal Chancery (12^th-14^th century)

Summary: The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery between the 12^th-14^th century attest the recognition of invalidity by the Papacy. They acknowledge the existence of a physical or mental infirmity and allow the supplicant to adapt his missions of cleric or Christian according to his abilities. These documents lie at the boundary between the institutional word and practical sources. Supplicant’s solicitations bring about an intense and complex epistolary production, whose main actors are the disabled individuals and the curial and ecclesiastical personnel. They reveal the specific legislation of the institution and lead to a definition of infirmity by the Papal Chancery, one that categorizes invalid bodies according to their physical or mental condition. Curia’s replies to solicitations, based on a case law system, constitute further evidence of the recognition of the disabled person’s condition. The supplications and letters thus constitute an excellent laboratory of analysis to study medieval disability in its relation to the Papacy as an institution.

Keywords: Disability – infirmity – Papacy – Papal Chancery – petition – letters – canon law – identity – religiosity – clerics – lay – Christendom.

Manager of the research blog Hypothèses History of Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe.

Job experiences

2019-2021 : European Projects Follow-up (administrative position at the Grant Office) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.

2019-2021: Independent French Teacher of Literature (200 hours of teaching) – Acadomia (Group courses for French baccalaureate students).

2018-2019 : Temporary teaching, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (63 hours of teaching).

2015-2017 : Temporary teaching and research position (ATER) in medieval history, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (384 hours of teaching).

2012-2015 : Recipient doctoral student of the l’École Doctorale Économies, Espaces, Sociétés, Civilisations (ED 382) at the Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, laboratory ICT (Identités, Cultures et Territoires, EA 337) in medieval history under the supervision of Didier Lett (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7) (96 hours of traching).

Entitled “‘Ad obsequium divinum inhabilem’ The Recognition of the disabled person’s condition by the Papal Chancery (12th-14th century)”, my dissertation seeks to question the integration of disabled persons into the clergy and the secular society, but also the utility that the Church withdraws from going against the laws it has enacted. Documents from Vatican Archives’ petition and letter registers, between norms and practices, allow researchers to see how the disabled person, whether cleric or secular, relies on the institution of which she is part to frame her life – and, conversely, to capture the gaze of the institution on these people.

2010-2012 : Research master History – history of art, Antiquity – Middle Ages, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III. Dissertation on Les clercs handicapés et infirmes au xiii^e siècle, à travers les lettres de dispense d’Innocent III (1198-1216) et de Boniface VIII (1294-1303), defended in front of Julien Théry and Daniel Le Blévec.

Integration in international networks

Co-funder (with Gildas Brégain) of the Network of French-speaking researchers on history of disability and deafness.

Associate member of the research group “Homo debilis. Dis/ability in Pre-Modern Societies”, Bremen University.

Member of the network « Jeunes chercheurs Handicap(s) et Sociétés, Programme Handicaps et Sociétés », EHESS, Paris.

Mentee of the American Historical Association Committee on Disability, Disability History Mentorship program (mentor : Catherine Kudlick).

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Organisation and coordination of scientific works

• Co-organisation of the monthly seminar “Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles” (Building a history of disability and deafness through the centuries) (EHESS UE899) with Fabrice Bertin (Paris, EHESS) and Gildas Brégain (Rennes, CNRS) (2021-2022) ;

• Help in the organisation of the seminar “corps empêchés” (impaired bodies) in Angers in the framework of the ANR Fil_IAM of Carole Avignon (2020-2021) ;

• Presentation of the last works of Henri-Jacques Stiker around a meeting with the author, « Anthropologie et histoire du handicap », Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, 22 March 2017 ;

• Workshop Utiliser l’Histoire : regards croisés sur la discipline historique, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, 21 September 2015 (with Maria Podzorova) ;

• Workshop Habiter : lieux de vie et façons de vivre. Une approche pluridisciplinaire du quotidien, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, 22 September 2014 (with Delphine Piétu and Maria Podzorova) ;

• Conducting a survey of students enrolled in the first year of the degree in history and their representations of medieval and contemporary history, presented at the General Assembly of the Department of History, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, 20 February 2014 (with Delphine Piétu).

Outreach activities

• Scientific monitoring skills (management of the research blog Hypotheses History of Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe).
• Promotion of open science and research, by the production and responsible distribution of research datasets: Excel database downloadable online on my personal website.
• Academic dissemination Skills (writing of an on-line section on “handicap” (disability) for undergraduate, graduate students and scholars on the French website Menestrel).
• Blog’s articles:
  • Medieval physical and mental disability and its representation in the TV-show Game of Thrones – “Actuel Moyen Âge” (Lived Middle Ages), 20^th June 2019.
  • Medieval representation(s) of disability – Nicolas d’Orgemont « le Boiteux » example – “Actuel Moyen Âge” (Lived Middle Ages), 26^th August 2021.
• Participation in the “en direct du labo” (live from the lab) Twitter account to write threads about medieval disability and my research (audience 644,000), May 2019.

Institution responsabilities

09/2021 – 08/2023     Member of the Management and Scientific Councils, UR “Transitions”.

09/2013 – 06/2017     Substitute delegate for PhD students from the École Doctorale 382.

09/2014 – 06/2016     Delegate of the doctoral students of the laboratory ICT/ University of                                      Paris/France.

Research funding and grants

03/2022          Research Grant, Stipendia Academiae Belgicae/Rome/Italy (1 month duration).

10/2021          Chargée de recherche (postdoctoral fellow) from the F.R.S.-FNRS (3 years duration).

09/2016          Temporary teaching and research position (ATER – 1 year duration).

09/2015          Temporary teaching and research position (ATER – 1 year duration).

09/2012          Recipient doctoral student (3 years duration).

04/2017          Fellowship, French School of Rome/Rome/Italy (1 month duration).

04/2016          Fellowship, French School of Rome/Rome/Italy (1 month duration).

11/2014           Fellowship, French School of Rome/Rome/Italy (1 month duration).

06/2014          Grant to participate to the workshop History and Computer Science, Textometry of Historical Sources, French School of Rome, Rome (1 week duration).

03/2014 Training course in medieval diplomacy organized by the GDR (research group) 3177 “Diplomatique”, CNRS, in the National archives, Paris (3 days duration).

          Published books, as an author, a co-author or an editor (peer-reviewed)

1. Ninon Dubourg, Disabled Clerics in the High Middle Ages, Un/suitable for divine service?, Amsterdam University Press, series Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability, 2023.
2. Ninon Dubourg and Wendy Turner (ed.), A Cultural History of Madness – Volume on the Middle Ages, Bloomsbury, 2024.

          Journal issues (peer-reviewed)

1. Ninon Dubourg and Adelheid Russenberg (eds.), The Borders of Disability and Ability, Ill-Health and Health, journal Social History of Medicine, Oxford Academic (contract under discussion with the editors).
2. Ninon Dubourg and Maria Podzorova (eds.), “Utiliser l’histoire: regards croisés sur la discipline historique” (Using History: A cross-section of the historical discipline), Encyclo, Revue de l’École doctorale ED 382, 2018, n° 9, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris (online).
3. Ninon Dubourg, Delphine Piétu and Maria Podzorova (eds.), “Habiter: lieux de vie et façons de vivre. Une approche pluridisciplinaire du quotidien” (Living: places to live and ways to live. A multidisciplinary approach to everyday life), Encyclo, Revue de l’École doctorale ED 382, 2016, n° 6, Université Paris 7, Paris (online).

          Book chapters (peer-reviewed)

1. Ninon Dubourg, “Disability and religious practices”, in Christina Lee and Janny Kuuliala (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Disability, Routledge (forthcoming 2024).
2. “Expertis medicis videatur: Legal Medical Expertise in the Assessment of Personal Injury Damages by the Apostolic Chancery during the Avignon Period (1309-1378)”, in Wendy Turner (ed)., Art of Illness, Routledge (forthcoming 2023);
3. With Laura Cayrol Bernardo, “Old Age and Medicine”, in Lucie Laumonier and Joel Rosenthal (eds.), A Cultural History of Old Age, Bloomsbury (forthcoming 2023);
4. “Un/Acceptable Disability? Defectus Corporis, Scandalum, and Pontifical Grace”, in Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle Ages, T. Artimon and A. Znorovszky (eds), Trivent Publishing, Budapest, (forthcoming 2022);
5. “European Medieval Disability History: An Overview”, in Handbook of Critical Disability Studies, S. Scalenghe and G. Reaume, volume on Disability History, Springer Nature, 2022 (online);
6. “Being a Leprous Cleric – In/ability to Hold a Benefice (xiii^th and xiv^th centuries)”, in New Approaches to Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe, coll. Studies in Early Medicine, E. Connelly and S. Künzel (eds), Archaeopress, Oxford, 2018, p. 62-77;
7. “Deo iudicio percusset, l’idée de contamination d’après les suppliques et les lettres pontificales” (Deo iudicio percusset, the idea of contamination according to the petitions and pontifical letters), in Alter-habilitas. Perception of disability among people, towards the creation of an International Network of studies, S. Carraro (ed), Alteritas, Vérone, 2018, p. 89-114 (online);
8. “Being a Leprous Cleric: a social rejection? (xiii^th and xiv^th centuries)”, in Dis/ability History der Vormoderne. Ein Handbuch – Premodern Dis/ability History. A Companion, C. Nolte, B. Frohne, U. Halle and S. Kerth (eds), Didymos, Affalterbach, 2017, p. 272-273.

          Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

1. Ninon Dubourg, “Deformitas et célébration de l’eucharistie dans le droit canon medieval”, in Ida Gilda Mastrorosa, Deformitas e diritto (forthcoming);
2. “Vieillissement et expériences religieuses à la fin du Moyen Âge – Comment les personnes âgées étaient-elles impliquées dans la vie conventuelle quotidienne?” (Ageing and Religious experiences during the Late Middle Ages – How elderly people were involved in everyday conventual life), in Mireia Comas-Via and Araceli Rosillo-Luque (ed.), “Ageing and Medieval Spiritualities”, Quaderni di storia religiosa medieval (forthcoming);
3. with Megan Katheb, “Témoignages médiévaux de la privation des sens. Empreintes matérielles de la cécité et de la mutité à l’époque médiévale” (Medieval evidence of sensory deprivation. Material traces of blindness and mute in the medieval period), in Valérie Delattre (ed.), Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie, n°165, September 2021, p. 62-67 (online);;
4. “Position de thèse” (Thesis position), Alter, European Society for Disability Research, Vol. 14-3, Sept. 2020, pp. 226-235 (online behind paywall).

          Articles published in conference proceedings (peer-reviewed)

1. NinonDubourg, “Marginalization on the Margins? Historical Perspectives on the Representations of Physical Disability in some Medieval Manuscript’s margins”, in L. Rozenberg and L. Scalabrella Spada, Permeable Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, University College London Press (forthcoming);
2. “L’incapacité dans les lettres de dispenses pontificales: aller à l’encontre de la réglementation ecclésiastique médiévale pour franchir la clôture” (Incapacity in the pontifical letters: going against medieval ecclesiastical regulations to cross the enclosure), in Albrecht Burkardt et Alexandra Roger (dir.), L’exception et la Règle, les pratiques d’entrée et de sortie des couvents, de la fin du Moyen Âge au XIX^e siècle, Presse universitaire de Rennes, Rennes, 2022, p. 41-54;
3. et alii, “Introduction: Utiliser l’histoire: regards croisés sur la discipline historique” (Introduction: Using History: A Cross-Review of the Historical Discipline), in N. Dubourg and M. Podzorova, “Utiliser l’histoire”, Encyclo, Revue de l’École doctorale ED 382,  2018, n° 9, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, p. 9-14 (online);
4. “Aux origines du handicap à l’époque médiévale. Lectures d’une source historique, les dispenses pontificales aux xiii^e et xiv^e siècles” (On the origins of disability in medieval times. Readings from a historical source, the pontificalletters from the 13-14 centuries), in Travaux en cours, 2017, n°13, University Paris 7, Paris, p. 101-114 (online);
5. et alii, “Introduction: habiter, lieux de vie et façon de vivre” (Introduction: living, where we live and howwe live), in N. Dubourg, A. Piétu and M. Podzorova, “Habiter: lieux de vie et façons de vivre”, Encyclo, Revue de l’École doctorale ED 382, 2016, n° 6, University Paris 7, Paris, p. 9-14 (online);
6. “Émasculations cléricales, Itinéraires particuliers pour aborder l’identité du clerc émasculé (xii^e-xv^e siècle)” (Clerical emasculations, Particular itineraries to approach the identity of the emasculated cleric (12e-15e c.)), in M.-L. Fieyre, “Itinéraires particuliers, identités singulières” (particular itineraries, singular identities), Encylo, Revue de l’École doctorale ED 382, 2014,n°4, University Paris 7, Paris, p. 89-101 (online).

          Book reviews

1. NinonDubourg, “review of Patrick Zutshi (ed), The Avignon Popes and Their Chancery. Collected Essays, Sismel, 2021.” for the journal Le Moyen Âge, Revue d’histoire et de philologie, De Boeck Supérieur, (forthcoming 2022);
2. “review of Jenny Kuuliala, Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages, Amsterdam, Amsterdam UP, 2020” for the journal Le Moyen Âge, Revue d’histoire et de philologie, De Boeck Supérieur, n° 2021/3-4 (Tome CXXVII) (online behind paywall);
3. “review of Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia (eds), Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2020” for the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Oxford, Oxford University Press, n°77-2, p. 247-249 (online);
4. “review of Glenn D. Burger and Holly A. Crocker (eds.), Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019” for the online journal Sehepunkte, Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften (online);
5. “review of Donna Trembinski, Illness and Authority. Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2020”, for the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, University of Toronto Press, vol. 39/1, April 2022, p. 180-182 (online);
6. “review of Miri Rubin (ed.), Modus Vivendi. Religious Reform and the Laity in Late Medieval Europe, Viella historical research, 19, Roma, Viella, 2020” for the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, Louvain Journal of Church History, Université catholique de Louvain – la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2021, 116 (3-4), p. 980-983 (online);
7. “review of Florent Coste (ed), L’Inflammatorium pœnitentiæ. Le vice de l’acédie et les vertus de l’imagination, Genève, Droz, 2019”, for the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, Louvain Journal of Church History, Université catholique de Louvain – la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2021, 116 (1-2), p. 459-461 (online behind paywall);
8. “review of Alain Froment, and Hervé Guy (eds), Archéologie de la santé, anthropologie du soin, Paris, La découverte, 2019”, for the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, University of Toronto Press, Vol. 37-2, 2020, p. 516-519 (online);
9. “review of Jenny Kuuliala, Childhood Disability and Social Integration in the Middle Ages: Constructions of Impairments in Thirteenth and Fourteenth‑Century Canonization Processes, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016”, for the journal Le Moyen Âge, Revue d’histoire et de philologie, De Boeck Supérieur, 2020/1 (Tome CXXVI), p. 194-197;
10. “review of Maud Ternon, Juger les fous au Moyen Âge dans les tribunaux royaux en France: xiv^e-xv^e siècles, Paris, PUF, 2018”, for the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, University of Toronto Press, spring/printemps 2019, Volume 36, Issue 1, p. 244-247 (online);
11. “review of Elizabeth W. Mellyn, Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy, Philadelphie, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014”, for the journal Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2018, 73(2), p. 521-522 (online);
12. “review of Damien Boquet, Piroska Nagy, Sensible Moyen Âge, Une histoire des émotions dans l’Occident médiéval, L’Univers historique, Paris, Seuil, 2015”, for the journal Memini Travaux et documents, 2017, p. 22-23 (online).

     Communications at international symposia

1. “The ‘blind’, the ‘deaf” and the ‘dumb’. Liturgical practices of sensory and mentally disabled people”, International conference The Role of the Senses in Medieval Liturgies and Rituals, September 21-23 2022, University of Padua, Italy;
2. “Jeûne et pénurie d’huile d’olive dans les régions froides au XVe siècle. Santé et salut par la grâce de la Pénitencerie Apostolique”, International conference organised by the Société Suisse d’Histoire Rurale on Santé des corps, salut des âmes: soins et religion en milieu rural, September 1-3 2022, Université de Lausanne, Swizterland;
3. “Disabled Old Women against Romance: the depictions of “La Vieille”, Frontier of Love in Le roman de la Rose”, panel “The Borders of Disability and Ability, Ill-Health and Health II”, 4-7 July 2022, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, Leeds;
4. “The ambivalence of old age confronted with practical sources: the cases of elderly regular clerics facing the pontifical institution”, panel “Age in Monastic Life”, May 9-14, 2022, 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo;
5. “Gender, old age, disability and religiosity. The intersectionality invoked by petitioners to contravene Christian prescriptions”, panel “Growing Old in the Middle Ages: A Gendered Perspective I – Social Practices”, 6-9 July 2021, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, Leeds;
6. “Disabling Consequences of Illnesses on Clerics’ Recruitment in 1459, (Re-)Inclusion of Disabled People within the Church by Pius II”, Virtual conference ‘Reconsidering Illness and Recovery in the Early Modern World’, Funded by the Durham University Centre for Academic Development, 18-19 August 2020, Online;
7. “Religiosity and Disability in the Papal Letters (13^th and 14^th centuries)”, Experiences of Dis/ability from the Late Middle Ages to the Mid-Twentieth Century Conference, 21-23 august 2019, Tampere University, Tampere;
8. “The Canon Law’s Category of the Defectus Corporis and Scandal”, panel “’Deformis formositas ac formosa deformitas‘ II: Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle Ages”, 2-4 July 2019, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, Leeds;
9. “Sicut Domino placuit ortus fuisti, disabled children’s births according to the Papal Chancery during the 13^th century”, “Deviance: Aspects & Approaches”, Fifteenth Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, 5-6 April 2019, University of Oxford, Oxford;
10. “Marginalization on the Margins? Historical Perspectives on the Representations of Physical Disability in some Medieval Manuscript’s margins”, Permeable Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, 5-6 october 2018, University College of London, London;
11. “Les disability studies et la discipline historique: la disability history, état des lieux international et perspectives françaises”, panel “Comprendre les disability studies: une perspective croisée”, Les désignations disciplinaires et leurs contenus: le paradigme des studies, 18-20 January 2017, Université Paris 13, Paris;
12. “Expériences sociales dans un contexte institutionnel: Le latin utilisé par les clercs français pour décrire le handicap”, panel “Pre-modern Disabilities: Ambiguous Bodies, Texts, and Meanings”, Society for French Studies 57th Annual Conference, 27-29 June 2016, Glasgow;
13. “L’incapacité dans les lettres de dispenses pontificales: aller à l’encontre de la réglementation ecclésiastique médiévale pour franchir la clôture”, L’exception et la Règle, les pratiques d’entrée et de sortie des couvents, de la fin du Moyen Âge au XIX^e siècle, 26-27 November 2015, Limoges;
14. “Being a Leprous Cleric: In/ability to Hold a Benefice”, conference Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe 8th Annual Meeting, Infection and Long-term Sickness, 6-7 December 2014, Nottingham Highfield House, Nottingham.

Discussions at international symposia

1. Moderation of the panel “The Borders of Disability and Ability, Ill-Health and Health” III, 6-9 July 2022, International Medieval Congress of Leeds, Leeds;
2. Discussion during the seminar “Santés / Médecines du point de vue des Sciences Humaines”, 26 January 2022, University of Paris, Paris;
3. Moderation of the panel Miracles and Metaphors, Conference Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe 10th Annual Meeting, Disability and religion, 2-4 December 2016, Swansea University, National Waterfront Museum.

Interventions during seminars

1. “Disability history”, Seminar for Master students organised by Eric Geerkens, “Débats historiographiques contemporains” (Contemporary historiographical debates), 2 May 2022, University of Liège;
2. “Handicap et pratiques religieuses: dévotion privée et expériences communes” (Disability and religious practices: private devotion and shared experiences), Seminar organised by Véronique Beaulande-Barraud, “Exclusion et communauté au Moyen Âge” (Exclusion and community in the Middle Ages), 27 April 2022, University Grenoble Alpes;
3. With Megan Kateb « Autour de la publication de l’article Témoignages médiévaux de la privation des sens Empreintes matérielles de la cécité et de la mutité à l’époque médiévale », séminaire organisé par Fabrice Bertin, Gildas Brégain et Ninon Dubourg, « Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles », 5 avril 2022, EHESS Paris ;
4. “Religious experiences of older women during the Late Middle Ages – How elderly women are involved in Christian practices and conventual life”, Seminar organized by Laura Cayrol Bernardo, “gender and Ageing”, 17 February 2022, University of Bergen;
5. “Discussions autour de la notion de handicap en histoire, en sociologie et en antrhopologie” (Discussions on the notion of disability in history, sociology and anthropology), Seminar organized by Mathilde Martinais and Marie Potvain, “Santé et médecine du point de vue des sciences humaines”, 26 January 2022, University of Paris;
6. “Discussion et débats”, Seminar “Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles” (Building a history of disability and deafness through the centuries) (EHESS UE899), with Fabrice Bertin (Paris, EHESS) and Gildas Brégain (Rennes, CNRS), 2 November 2021, EHESS Paris;
7. “Introduction” Seminar “Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles” (Building a history of disability and deafness through the centuries) (EHESS UE899), with Fabrice Bertin (Paris, EHESS) and Gildas Brégain (Rennes, CNRS), 7 April 2021, online (EHESS, University of Paris, University of Rennes, ALTER association);
8. “L’expertise médicale légale dans l’évaluation des dommages corporels et mentaux par la chancellerie apostolique durant la période Avignonaise (1309-1378)” (Legal medical expertise in the evaluation of physical and mental damages by the apostolic chancellery during the Avignon period (1309-1378)), Seminar organized by Jean-François Ravaud “Jeunes chercheur.euse.s Handicap(s) et Sociétés”, 3 March 2021, EHESS Paris;
9. “In/capables d’assurer le service divin? Les requêtes des prêtres handicapés auprès de la chancellerie pontificale (13e-14e siècles)” (Unable to perform divine service? The requests of disabled priests to the papal chancery (13th-14th centuries)), Seminar organized by Béatrice Delaurenti, Charles de Miramon and Pierre Monnet, “Histoire intellectuelle et sociale du Moyen Âge”, 29 January 2020, EHESS Paris;
10. “La pertinence de l’utilisation du concept de “handicap” dans les études historiques” (The relevance of using the concept of “disability” in historical studies), Seminar organized by Jean-François Ravaud, “Jeunes chercheur.euse.s Handicap(s) et Sociétés”, 22 March 2016, EHESS Paris;
11. “Bilan historiographique sur le handicap et les infirmités au Moyen Âge” (Historiographic review of disability and infirmity in the Middle Ages), seminar organized by Didier Lett, Famille, parenté et genre au Moyen Âge (xii^e-xv^e siècles), 7 December 2015, Université Paris Diderot;
12. “Le corps mutilé, vieillissant ou malade comme créateur d’identité. Au croisement de trois notions: corporalité, individualité et handicap” (The mutilated, aging or sick body as a creator of identity. At the crossroads of three notions: corporality, individuality and handicap), thematic and methodological seminar Questions de corps coordinated by Florence Gherchanoc, 16 October 2014, Université Paris Diderot;
13. “La masculinité des clercs” (Cleric Masculinity), seminar organised by Didier Lett, Famille, parenté et genre au Moyen Âge (xii^e-xv^e siècles), 26 November 2013, Université Paris Diderot.

Interventions during workshops

1. “Approches de la construction identitaire cléricale par l’émasculation: entre désirs coupables ou consommés et incapacité canonique (xiie-xive siècles)”, organised by the GRER/SAGEF/PEFH, Genre, ‘race’ et handicap, Vivre ensemble dans la sphère publique, Université Paris Diderot, 10 March 2017;
2. “Aux origines du handicap médiéval dans les lettres de dispense pontificales (xiiie-xive siècles)”, 9è rencontres doctorales de Paris-Diderot Origine/Origines, 9-10 June 2016, Université Paris Diderot;
3. “Trois itinéraires pour aborder l’identité du clerc émasculé (xiii^e-xv^e siècle)”, organised by Encyclo, Revue de l’ED 382, Itinéraires singuliers, identités plurielles, 22 February 2013, Université Paris Diderot.