Xavier Hermand

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Domains of expertise

  • History of the Middle Ages
  • History of medieval libraries
  • Books and readers at the dawn of the Modern Age
  • Monastic reforms and cultural practices in the 14th and 15th centuries.

External responsibilities

  • Associate professor at the "Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris" (CNRS - Paris I): co-director of the seminar "Book, manuscript, society"
  • Member of the editorial team of the "Gazette du livre médiévale"
  • Member of the editorial board of the "Bulletin codicologique" of "Scriptorium"
  • Co-director of the collection "Hagiologia. Etudes sur la sainteté en Occident", Editions Brepols (1999-).
  • Member of the Commission of the Archaeological Society of Namur (2003-).
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Congress of History and Archaeology Circles of Belgium and president of the cell "Believe and celebrate: religious history, rites and beliefs", Namur, 2008.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the project "CIC-Web.be: Online guide to medieval manuscripts preserved in the French Community of Belgium" (2005-).
  • Member of the steering committee of the "National Center for Research in Religious History" (2005-).
  • Expert at the Institute for the Encouragement of Scientific Research and Innovation in Brussels (2007-)
  • Member of the General Assembly of the ASBL CERUNA (2005-). Member of the editorial team of the Gazette du livre médiévale
  • Co-director of the collection "Hagiologia. Etudes sur la sainteté en Occident", Editions Brepols (1999-)
  • Member of the editorial board of the "Bulletin codicologique" of "Scriptorium"

Degrees

  • PhD in Philosophy and Literature (UCL, 1998: LPGD)
  • European Diploma in Medieval Studies (Rome, FIDEM, 1994)
  • Bachelor's degree in History (UCL, 1992: LPGD)

Prizes

Vicomte Terlinden Prize (1999)

2025-2026

2024-2025

2023-2024

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