- Christian Settipani
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Christian Settipani Born 31 January 1961 Occupation IT Technical Director, Genealogist, Historian, Author Christian Settipani (born 31 January 1961) is the Technical Director of an IT company in Paris and a genealogist and historian.
He has a Master of Advanced Studies degree from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1997) and is currently preparing his doctoral thesis, while he often gives lectures to students undergraduates at the Paris-Sorbonne University, the University of Marne la Vallée, the University of Lyon and the Paul Verlaine University – Metz.
Settipani specialises in the genealogy and prosopography of elites in Europe and the Near East during the early Middle Ages and earlier. He is a source for historians in early mediæval and late antique Europe,[1][2] and genealogists who work in the field of Descent from antiquity (DFA). He directs an area of resarch into a prestigious unity of the French C.N.R.S.. He has also participated in and organized under the patronage of French scientific institutions many international conferences at the University of Oxford, the University of London, the University of Leeds, the Stockholm University, the Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Göttingen, the Paris-Sorbonne University, the Blaise Pascal University, the University of Lyon, and others.
Particularly notable among his researches have been studies in the early mediæval origins of the Carolingians, his consideration of the familial ties between the Gallo-Roman bishop Ruricius of Limoges during the period of the Visigothic Kingdom in Aquitaine and the senatorial gens Anicii of the Late Empire, his broad study of the continuity during the Imperial period of Roman senatorial clans (gens) and the ties that bind newer aristocratic families like the Anicii and Caeioni to ancient Republican era Roman clans, his study of the Carolingian era origins of the lesser nobility of the Auvergne region of Gaul (see the list of publications below), and his debate with historian Bernard Bachrach concerning the Burgundian and Auvergnat origins of 9th century Angevin matriarch Gerberga.[3][4]
His work is one important example of the trend in Early Mediæval Historical Studies away from the idea, dominant since Edward Gibbon at least, that elites of the late Roman Empire were entirely displaced in the West by unrelated Germanic invaders and "new men" or alternatively that to the extent they may not have been displaced memories of their origins and ties have become irretrievably obscured. Historians have remarked with favour on the breadth of his presentation, his extensive citation of prior research and alternative viewpoints and the inspiration of some of his solutions to genealogical and prosopographical questions, but at the same time they express concern that the very breadth and volume of the material he treats in a single work tend to make accessible presentation difficult.[5]
His own work draws on that of professional genealogists such as Prince Cyril Toumanoff and Sir Anthony Wagner, as well as other books and papers.
Settipani is associated with CNRS, the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris[citation needed] and is co-founder and general editor with Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan (FRHistS) of the publication series of the Unit for Prosopographical Research at Oxford University. Keats-Rohan is regarded as one of the founders of modern prosopographical and network analysis research,[citation needed] which has become highly computer-dependent.
Publications
The earlier works were originally published by Éditions Francis Christian (no link with the author) in French, although some nonofficial English translations have been produced. Later works have been released via other publishers, while he is often cited in scientific works. Among his publications are also many papers in scientific publications.
(French)
- Les ancêtres de Charlemagne, 1989
- Nos ancêtres de l'Antiquité, 1991
- Christian Settipani, La préhistoire des Capétiens, 1993
- Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000
- Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, 2000, Settipani and K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, editors
- La noblesse du Midi Carolingien, 2004
- Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du VIe au IXe siècle, 2006
See also
References
- Présentation de Christian Settipani par Jean-Louis Beaucarnot
- Ralph Mathisen, Ruricius of Limoges and Friends: A Collection of Letters from Visigothic Gaul. Liverpool University Press(1999)
- Constance Brittain Bouchard, Those of My Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Mediæval Francia. University of Pennsylvania Press. (2001)
- Bernard S. Bachrach, "Some observations on the origins of the Angevin dynasty", Medieval Prosopography 10 no. 2 (1989): 1-24.
- Christian Settipani, "Les comtes d'Anjou et leur alliances aux Xe et XIe siecles", in K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, ed., Family Trees and the Roots of Politics (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1997): 211-267.
- Greg Halfond, Review of La Noblesse du Midi carolingien: Etudes sur quelques grandes familles d'Aquitaine et du Languedoc du IXe au XIe siecles, Toulousain, Périgord, Limousin, Poitou, Auvergne. Prosopographica et Genealogica, in the Medieval Review. vol. 5. Pp. 388.
Categories:- 1961 births
- Living people
- University of Paris alumni
- French genealogists
- French writers
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