PIRONT Julie
Collaboratrice
Faculté de Philosophie et lettres
Département des sciences historiques
Histoire moderne
- ULiège address
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Bât. A4 Histoire moderne
quai Roosevelt 1B
4000 Liège
Belgique
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- University degrees
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2013: Doctorat en Philosophie et Lettres (histoire de l'art et de l'architecture) (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Biography
PhD in art history, Julie Piront is an associate researcher at the University of Liège. In the continuation of her doctoral thesis defended in 2013 at the Catholic University of Louvain on the monasteries of the annonciades célestes (called the Blue Nuns) in the 17th and 18th centuries (forthcoming), her research questions the conventual architecture of women in modern times in a historical perspective, in close collaboration with Marie-Élisabeth Henneau. Drawing on narrative sources, normative texts, iconography and remains, she attempts to analyze representations and material production of female religious orders implanted in the margins of Catholicism.
Her postdoctoral research compared the topography of female monasteries distributed on the Catholic Ridge linking Italy to the North Sea. The northern half of this area (Ancient Burgundian States), between Lille and Beaune, offers a relevant field of investigation especially during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), while female communities are implanted massively in cities on the borders of Protestantism. In this context, monasteries can be interpreted as spiritual "bastions" associated to the work of the Catholic Reformation. By their look of fortresses with barred windows, they constitute a spiritual line of defense against the enemy while expressing the missionary presence of nuns in the heart of cities. The corpus selects fifteen key cities representative of the "conventual invasion" and four female congregations with diverse profiles (ursulines, discalced carmelites, visitandines and annonciades célestes), totaling 49 monasteries.
Associate researcher at the Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire (CRULH), she participates in the ANR research project Lodocat (Lotharingie Dorsale catholique) led by the University of Lorraine and in particular the Task 1 of this ANR dedicated to the engagement of women in the regular world. Julie Piront is also a member of the Religious History Group of La Bussière and since March 2019, she have been forewoman of the International Society for the Study of Women of the Ancien Régime (SIEFAR).
Research field
- Sciences humaines
- Arts
- Architecture et art urbain
- Histoire des temps modernes
- Religions chrétiennes
Duties or mandates
- Associate researcher
