About
Antoine Destemberg is an Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Artois, and a researcher at the Centre de Recherche et d’Études – Histoire et Sociétés and the Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (UMR 8589). He serves on the editorial boards of the Revue historique and the Revue de História da Sociedade e da Cultura. His research focuses on medieval universities, intellectual elites, and social order theories, with a particular emphasis on Bibles moralisées manuscripts and their role in shaping medieval sociological thought.
Destemberg earned his PhD from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where his thesis on Parisian scholars’ honor strategies won the Le Monde Prize (2011) and later the Lantier Prize (2017). His current projects include a digital humanities initiative analyzing a 13th-century Moralized Bible manuscript using AI, and the ANR-funded SOCIOMA project (2024-2028), exploring medieval social classification systems as performative tools of power.
His publications span topics like medieval theological exegesis, social nomenclature, and the interplay between intellectual elites and political structures. Recent work examines how biblical manuscripts served as vehicles for sociological ideas, linking theological scholarship to contemporary governance challenges.
Destemberg’s research methodologies blend traditional historical analysis with computational tools, particularly in studying intertextuality in Latin biblical texts. His work is part of a broader historiographical shift toward understanding medieval 'governmental rationalities' through interdisciplinary sociology and anthropology frameworks.
