Knowledge and Practices from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era - Saprat, EA 4116

The work of Saprat members and doctoral students is part of a cultural and intellectual history that focuses on the modalities of acquiring and applying knowledge (philological, historical, artistic, and scientific) by studying the objects produced by this knowledge, as historical material objects placed in their context of production and use, and as bearers of content. They draw on the study of documents (writings, manuscripts, archives, texts, scores, works of art), which they interrogate, prioritizing access to the original and often carrying out editorial work.

Saprat's central theme is the articulation between knowledge and practices: how are the constitution and transmission of organized knowledge reflected in practices that can be discerned by historians? Saprat's work thus promotes a historical and philological approach to changes over the long term, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era, in multiple fields, which are currently grouped into five axes: Writings, handwritten documents, collections and corpora; Languages, transmission of texts and forms of writing; Scientific and medical knowledge; Powers and representation(s); Artistic knowledge and practices.

Director: Brigitte Mondrain

Deputy Director: Guy-Michel Leproux

Unit website: https://www.saprat.fr