Presentation

Elisabeth Schmit, agrégée d'histoire and medievalist, has been an ATER at the Collège de France and attached to Professor Patrick Boucheron's chair since September 2019. She devoted her Master's research (2012) and then her doctoral thesis - defended in November 2019 - to the transformation of judicial institutions in the kingdom of France in the aftermath of the Hundred Years' War .

Her work, directed by Olivier Mattéoni (Université Paris 1 / Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris), focuses more specifically on the great days of the Paris parliament in the mid-15th century. These temporary, delocalized sessions of the sovereign court were held to adjudicate, on the spot and on appeal, a series of trials within a given jurisdiction. Between 1454 and 1459, several sessions were held simultaneously in the kingdom of France. After several decades of war and division, the grand jours were seen as a political and symbolic tool for a royal government seeking to reassert its power over the entire territory. Their holding intensified the royal judicial policy, and made possible the resumption of a close judicial relationship between a king-justiciary and his subjects-justiciables. At the dawn of the creation of provincial parliaments, the staging and exercise of this justice, both sovereign and ubiquitous, were part of the deployment of a policy, a discourse and a legislative activity designed to perpetuate peace. The research carried out in the course of her thesis explored this post-war context, but also the technical and practical workings of the royal court of appeal, by analyzing and partially editing the judicial registers that record the activity of the great days.

In parallel with her research, she taught as a contract doctoral student and then as an ATER at the University of Paris 1 and the University of Franche-Comté.

As ATER at the Collège de France, she is in charge of all editorial work for the digital magazine Entre-Temps, created by Adrien Genoudet and Patrick Boucheron and inaugurated in October 2018 : www.entre-temps.net

Selected bibliography

  • the announced spring of the Grands Jours du parlement de Paris in 1454: public action and political communication

    " administrer justice a ses subgietz es pays ou ilz habitent et demeurent... Le ressort annoncé des Grands Jours du parlement de Paris en 1454 : action publique et communication politique. ", Hypothèses, 2016/1 (19), p. 109-120.

  • Is public action a theme for historians?

    " Public action, a theme for the historian ? " with A. Motis, E. Pointeau-Lagadec, C. Rager and M. Vallet, Hypothèses, 2016/1 (19), pp. 97-108.

  • Imitatio regis - A diplomatic study of Jean de Berry's deeds

    "  Imitatio regis ? Pour une diplomatique des actes de Jean de Berry ", with M. Barry, C. Lescuyer, C. Rager and M.-E. Sterlin, in O. Mattéoni and O. Guyotjeannin (eds.), Jean de Berry et l'écrit. Les pratiques documentaires d'un fils de roi de France, Éditions de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2019.

  • grands Jours du prince, grands jours du roi, grands jours du Parlement: the path of an institutional model (13th-15th centuries)

    " Grands Jours du prince, grands jours du roi, grands jours du Parlement : parcours d'un modèle institutionnel (XIIIe-XVe siècle) ", in I. Brancourt (ed.), Au cœur de l'État : Parlement(s) et cours souveraines sous l'Ancien Régime, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2019.

  • appeals as abuse avant la lettre? Searches in the registers of the parliament of Paris and the great days of the mid-15th century

    " Des appels comme d'abus avant la lettre ? Recherches dans les registres du parlement de Paris et des grands jours au milieu du XVe siècle ", in C. Galland and A. Bonzon (eds.), Justices croisées. Histoire et enjeux de l'appel comme d'abus (XIVe-XVIIIe siècles), forthcoming from Presses universitaires de Rennes.

  • Pragmatic Sanction in Guyenne in the aftermath of the French victory: speeches and practices before the parliament of Paris in Bordeaux (1456-1459)

    " La Pragmatique Sanction en Guyenne au lendemain de la victoire française : discours et usages devant les grands jours du parlement de Paris à Bordeaux (1456-1459) " - Study day on "La Pragmatique Sanction de Bourges dans tous ses états. Pouvoir, droit et ecclésiologie dans l'Europe du XVe siècle ", (LAMOP, CRULH, LSH), to be published by Éditions de la Sorbonne.