Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Classics, Digital resources, Digitisation, Early Modern, History, History of the book, Library, Manuscript studies, Modern History , Palaeography, Typography

Regions:

Europe

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Professor Raphaële Mouren is Head of Research Collections at the British School at Rome and Senior Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute. Previously Reader and Librarian at the Warburg Institute, she is Deputy-Director, Centre Gabriel Naudé. Former student at Université de Provence (BA, MA, Classics), at Ecole des chartes, Paris (archiviste paléographe) and École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques, Lyon (diplôme de conservateur des bibliothèques), fellow at the French School at Rome for 3 years, she received her DEA and PhD from Ecole pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne. Se has been awarded fellowships and grants from institutions such as the French School at Rome, the Newberry Library, The French Institute of History in Germany, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Society for Renaissance Studies, région Rhône-Alpes, the Herzog August bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and the Willison Foundation. She is member of various funded-projects focused on the history of the book and libraries.She is currently PI of an AHRC funded project, Greek Manuscripts in Renaissance Venice: The Library of Guillaume Pellicier and its contribution to Europe's intellectual heritage (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW009587%2F1).

She was previously Reader in History of the Book and History of Libraries, University of London, and Librarian of the Warburg Institute, Head of the Department of Rare books and Special collections at Bibliothèque-Carré d’Art, Nîmes, Deputy Director of the Cité du livre–bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence and Senior Lecturer in modern and contemporary history, Director of the Centre Gabriel Naudé, at Enssib, Lyon.

Her main interests are the history of philology, the history of scholarship and the transmission of classics in the Sixteenth Century; the Republic of Letters; the history of the book and publishing and the relationship between humanists and publishers, mainly in Italy, France and the European humanist printers; the cultural history of Florence and Rome in the Sixteenth Century; the history of libraries in modern times. She is available for supervision in these fields at the Warburg Institute.

In recent years she has taughted the history of the book and libraries, the humanist book in early modern times, as well as management and care of documentary heritage in libraries.

Complete list of publications 

https://cv.hal.science/raphaele-mouren

 

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
09-Jan-2025	Une édition inattendue ? un Denys d’Halicarnasse florentin chez Jean de Tournes, 1581 in L'école du livre. Langues, enseignement, édition aux temps de l'humanisme, hommage à la professeure Martine Furno, ed. Ch. Deloince-Louette, M. Ferrand, Genève, Droz, (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance), 343-355.
05-Jan-2024	Plurilingualism in the Kingdom of Naples, Conference papers Mélanges de l’École française de Rome, Moyen-Âge, 135-1. Ed. with Florence Bistagne,
15-Mar-2022	Dallo studiolo al museo: la biblioteca di studio in età moderna Chapters in Reimmaginare la Grande Galleria : forme del sapere tra età moderna e culture digitali, ed. Erika Guadagnin, Turin, Ledizioni, 79-88.
15-Mar-2022	Minorités, migrations, mondialisation en Méditerranée, XIVe-XVIe siècles Conference papers ed. Florence Bistagne, Raphaële Mouren, Jeremie Ferrer-Bartomeu; Paris, Classiques Garnier. Proceedings of the conference held in 2020, Avignon université
28-Jan-2021	The afterlife of Apuleius Edited Book edited by Florence BISTAGNE, Carole Boidin, Raphaële MOUREN. London: Institute of Classical Studies/ University of London Press (supplement of BICS)
15-Nov-2020	L'histoire du livre en Grande-Bretagne après les travaux d'Henri-Jean Martin Articles Histoire et civilisation du livre, 16, 2020, p. 87-97.
21-Oct-2020	Il viaggio di Hannibale per la Toscana de Piero Vettori, ou la reconstruction d'un itinéraire Chapters in La mémoire en pièces, éd. Anne Raffarin, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2020, p. 505-517.
01-Jun-2020	Claude Longeon et les fonds anciens des bibliothèques et archives de Saint-Étienne, entre recherche et valorisation Articles Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance, 90, p. 83-99
01-Jun-2020	Marc Antoine Muret, un humaniste français en Italie Edited Book Edited with C. de BUZON, J.-E. GIROT, L. PRADELLE Geneva, Droz (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance)
01-Jun-2019	Les bibliothèques de la Renaissance aujourd’hui, étude et valorisation Edited Book Thematic issue, Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance, 89. Directed with Anne Reach-Ngo
25-Oct-2016	Bibliothèques et lecteurs dans l'Europe moderne (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) Edited Book  dir. Gilles Bertrand, Anne Cayuela, Christian Del Vento, Raphaële Mouren, Geneva, Droz, 2016 (Bibliothèque des Lumières)
03-Oct-2016	‘La fabrique d’une bibliothèque au coeur de la République des Lettres: Piero Vettori, ses amis et ses livres’ Chapters  Bibliothèques et lecteurs dans l'Europe moderne (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles), Geneva, Droz, 2016, p. 181-203.
13-Dec-2015	De la bibliothèque de Warburg à la bibliothèque Warburg : l’institutionnalisation d’une idée  La revue de la BNU, 2015, p. 50-59.
01-Mar-2014	‘Le patrimoine documentaire et la collaboration internationale: le rôle de l’IFLA’ Chapters in Patrimonio cultural documental: De la idea a la acción, dir. Daniel Sanabria, Madrid, Fundación Ciencias de la Documentación, 2014.
02-Jan-2014	Auteur, autorité, référence dans le livre humaniste, XVe-XVIe siècles Chapters In De l’autorité à la référence, ed. Isabelle Diu, Raphaële Mouren, Paris, École des chartes, 2014, pp. 19-35.
02-Jan-2014	De l’autorité à la référence Edited Book  De l’autorité à la référence, ed. Isabelle Diu, Raphaële Mouren, Paris, École des chartes, 2014, with chapter ‘Auteur, autorité, référence dans le livre humaniste, XVe-XVIe siècles’, pp. 19-35;
01-Jan-2014	De peu assez: éditions lyonnaises du seizième siècle Edited Book  De peu assez: éditions lyonnaises du seizième siècle, ed. Martine Furno, Pascale Mounier and Raphaële Mouren, Revue de l’enssib, 2, 2014 with article ‘Concevoir et fabriquer un livre, une entre-prise collégiale autour de quelques éditions savantes’ (revue.enssib.fr)/p>
01-Jan-2014	‘Éditer un livre humaniste: réseaux et solidarités, affaires de famille Florentines’ in Nouveaux aspects de la culture de l’imprimé, Questions et perspectives (XVe-XVIIe siècles), dir. Grégoire Holtz, Geneva, Droz, 2014, pp. 45-59;
01-Jan-2014	Anthropologie de l'auteur de la première modernité Chapters  in Cinquante ans d’histoire du livre: De L’apparition du livre (1958) à 2008, bilan et perspective, dir. Dominique Varry, Villeurbanne, Presses de l’enssib, 2014, pp. 156-170
01-Jan-2014	Stratégies auctoriales et éditoriales de dédicace: éditions latines et grecques au milieu du seizième siècle’, in Les pratiques latines de la dédicace Articles  in Les pratiques latines de la dédicace, dir. Jean-Claude Julhe, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014, pp. 561-578
01-Jan-2014	La place des humanistes dans les rééditions des auteurs antiques: stratégies éditoriales et titres trompeurs’, in Copier et contrefaire à la Renaissance: Faux et usage de faux, Edited Book  in Copier et contrefaire à la Renaissance: Faux et usage de faux, ed. Colette Nativel et Pascale Mounier, Paris, Champion, 2014, pp. 327-346.
01-Jan-2013	L’histoire du livre au seizième siècle au regard des autres disciplines Edited Book Ed. Raphaële Mouren, Histoire et civilisation du livre, 9, 2013, pp. 49-169, with introduction pp. 51-52;

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Additional Publications

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Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
Greek manuscripts in Renaissance Venice: The library of Guillaume Pellicier and its contribution to Europe’s intellectual heritage Warburg Institute Project period: 01-Oct-2022 - 30-Sep-2026 Research interests: Classics, Digital resources, History of the book, Manuscript studies, Modern History
Biblyon, Book and Literature in Lyon in the 16th century  convenors: Raphaële Mouren, Professor Michèle Clément (Université Lyon 2): Région Rhône-Alpes (projet Cible grant & PhD Fellowship), since 2012.
Bipram, Private libraries in the Modern Times 2010-2015  The aim of the project is to build an online interface that will allow the electronic publication of inventories of Ancien Régime libraries.  convenors: Raphaële Mouren, Professor Christian Del Vento (Université Paris 3), Professor Thomas Lebarbé (Université Grenoble 3): Région Rhône-Alpes (projet Cible grant & PhD Fellowship 2012-2015); Centre national de la recherché scientifique, Très grande infrastructure de recherche Huma-num annual grant 2013 and 2014.
Greek Manuscripts in Renaissance Venice: The Library of Guillaume Pellicier and its contribution to Europe's intellectual heritage AHRC funded project (2022-2026)
The illustrated book in Lyon in the sixteenth century (2016-19)  Convenors: Raphaële Mouren, Professor Richard Cooper (University of Oxford) and Pierre Guinard (public library, Lyon and Centre Gabriel Naudé) Prepared together with the public library of Lyon, the Centre Gabriel Naudé, the Bodleian Library and the University of Oxford, the project was ranked 1st in the 2015 funding campaign of Equipex Biblissima (French Government ‘Investissements d’avenir’ project) and benefited in 2016 of a one-year academic assistant, based in Lyon, in charge of describing in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database the illustrations printed in Lyonese books during the 16th century. An application has been submitted for the renewal of the project in 2017-2018.
The Turrettini library : theology and knowledge in early modern Geneva The Turrettini library project aims to digitally reconstruct the library of an influential family of Genevan Calvinist theologians. Amassed over two centuries, this collection of 8,500 titles is known through a handwritten catalogue from 1772. The project will utilise advances in Digital Humanities to create a reusable AI model and automatically transcribe the catalogue. The reconstruction will be enriched with comprehensive bibliographical descriptions and information on the provenance of part of the collection now housed at the Méjanes library in Aix-en-Provence. This digital resource will offer researchers a unique insight into the theological sources used by the Turrettini family, thus illuminating Calvinist intellectual practices in the 17th and 18th centuries. A case study in the history of early modern libraries, this project will provide an in-depth understanding of this fascinating historical library. It will also demonstrate the application of digital humanities to the sector in path-breaking ways. British Academy/Leverhulme Small grant n. SRG25\251325 March 2026-March 2028

Current PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 01-Oct-2023 Until:	Sarah Rohde, The visual representation of Classical Antiquity in video games Supervisors Raphaële Mouren and Richard Gartner
From: 01-Oct-2022 Until:	Katherine Prater, Illustrating Nature, Printing Utopia: Lucy Way Sistare Say (1800-1886) Supervisors Elizabeth Savage, Raphaële Mouren, John Tresh
From: 01-Oct-2022 Until:	Hugh Cullimore, the transmission of the Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Supervisors Caspar Pearson and Raphaële Mouren
From: 01-Oct-2020 Until:	Yvonne Lewis, Wimpole Library, c. 1640-1940 Supervisors: Dr Raphaële Mouren and Professor Jason Peacey (UCL)
From: 01-Oct-2019 Until:	Rita Yates, Religion and Disaster in Eighteenth-Century French Art supervisors Dr Paul Taylor and Dr Raphaële Mouren
From: 01-Jan-2024 Until:	Melissa Robohn, The Torrentini Press in 16th Century Florence Professor Raphaële Mouren and Giles Mandelbrote
From: 01-Jan-2021 Until:	Tracy Bergstrom, Printing and the network of antiquarian scholarship in early to mid-16th c. Rome Supervisors: Dr Raphaële Mouren and Dr Caspar Pearson

Past PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 01-Oct-2019 Until: 30-Sep-2022	Eleanor Greer, The Collection of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) in the Context of Eighteenth-Century Book Collecting. Supervisors Raphaële Mouren and Jason Peacey (UCL)
From: 01-Oct-2017 Until: 30-Jun-2024	Jennifer Taylor, Emblematics of the Heroine in Charles Perrault’s Contes de fées
From: 01-Oct-2016 Until: 31-Dec-2019	Antonia Karaisl von Karais, 'Christian Wolff's Oeconomica methodo scientifica pertractata - Household Economics as the Foundation for the Welfare State?' Antonia Karaisl von Karais
From: 01-Oct-2011 Until: 25-Sep-2018	Hélène Lannier, 'Benoît Lecourt, un juriste humaniste à Lyon dans les années 1530-1550'  PhD funded by Région Rhône Alpes for 3 years as part of the project Biblyon, livre et littérature à Lyon au XVIe siècle.

Available for doctoral supervision: Yes

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