Cottier Jean-francois

Biography

Jean-François Cottier is a graduate of the Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve (Phil Lic.), Paris IV-Sorbonne (Doctorat nr) and Provence (habilitation to direct research). Specialist in Christian literature (Late Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance), he worked on the rhetoric of prayer ( Anima mea: private prayers and texts of devotion of the Latin Middle Ages.) Around the collection of Prayers or Meditations of S. Anselme Canterbury , Turnhout, Brepols, 2002, The Prayer in Latin, from Antiquity to Renaissance: forms, evolutions, meanings , Turnhout, Brepols, 2007), on the Latin Apocrypha of the New Testament (Ps-Tite, Epistle on the way of living chastity, translation, introduction and notes, inApocryphal Writings of the New Testament , D. Kaestli (ed.), Vol. II, Paris, Gallimard, 2005 (coll., "Library of the Pléiade"), p. 1131-1171), and on the exegetical work of Erasmus of Rotterdam ( In euangelium Matthæi paraphrasis Erasmi Roterodami , edition, introduction and annotation, Amsterdam, ASD VII, 1, forthcoming). Fellow of the French School of Rome, Yates Fellow of the Warburg Institute of London and associate researcher at the Institute of Reformation History of Geneva, he taught at the universities of Maine, Nice and Saint-Étienne in France, and at the University of Montreal. He is now a professor at the University of Paris VII. He is currently researching the poetics of paraphrase (biblical epics, paraphrases of the Scriptures) and the humanistic exegesis of the Bible, while pursuing the translation of great medieval and modern texts such as Peter Damien's Book of Gomorrah , the epistolary treatises of Erasmus and De Alea by Juste Pasquier. He also initiated a vast research program on Quebec's Latin heritagewww.erudit.org/revue/tce/2010/v/n92/index.html .

Research Interest

literature studies and writing, Historical and uchronic narrations.