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Dr Hélène Sirantoine
MA Paris 4-Sorbonne PhD Bordeaux 3
Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History
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The University of Sydney
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Hélène Sirantoine researches Spanish medieval History, with a particular focus on the kingdom of Castile and León until the 13th century. Her interests include the analysis of written productions as tools of communication and representation of ideologies that support institutions, mainly kingship and ecclesiastical powers. She joined the University of Sydney in 2014.
- Political and cultural history of Christian Spain
- History of powers and the building of their supportive ideologies
- Imperial ideas in medieval times
- Institutional memory and its uses
- Written practices
- Medieval historiography
- Diplomatics and charters
- Cartularies
- Christian knowledges of Islam
- HSTY1025 ‘The Middle Ages’
- HSTY2618 ‘Mediterranean World in High Middle Ages’
- HSTY2695 ‘Reconquest? A History of Medieval Spain’
- HSTY2699 ‘Global Epidemics: From the Black Death to Ebola’
- The invention of Spanish cartularies (12th-13th c.
- Comparative study of medieval imperial experimentations in the Mediterranean area and on the margins of Europe
- The Global Middle Ages
- Christian knowledges of Islam in the medieval Iberian Peninsula
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...My just quarrel... : Saviourhood Justice and Unity in the Royal Image of King Henry VII | Reilly O'HAGAN |
Selected publications
Publications
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Books
- Sirantoine, H. (2012). Imperator Hispaniae : Les Ideologies Imperiales dans le Royaume de Leon (IXe-XIIe siecles). Madrid: Casa de Velazquez.
Edited Books
- Deswarte, T., Herbers, K., Sirantoine, H. (2018). Epistola 1. Ecriture et genre epistolaires, IVe-XIe siecles. Madrid: Casa de Velazquez. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2018). Epistola 2. La Lettre diplomatique. Ecriture epistolaire et actes de la pratique dans l'Occident latin medieval. Madrid: Casa de Velazquez. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H., Escalona, J. (2013). Chartes et cartulaires comme instruments de pouvoir : Espagne et Occident chrétien (VIIIe-XIIe s.) [Charters and Cartularies as Instruments of Power: Iberian Peninsula and Christian West (VIIIth-XIIth c.)]. Toulouse: Framespa.
Book Chapters
- Sirantoine, H. (2023). Nos ancetres les Wisigoths ou Comment justifier la 'Reconquete' chretienne de la peninsule Iberique au Moyen Age (VIIIe-Xve siecles). In Benjamin Deruelle (Eds.), Quand l'Histoire sert a faire la guerre, (pp. 193-212). Montreal (Quebec): Lemeac.
- Sirantoine, H. (2023). When Being King Was Not Enough: Imperatores in Medieval Iberia (Ninth to Twelfth Century). In Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira and Fulvio Delle Donne (Eds.), Gli spazi del potere: strategie e attributi dell'imperialita - Les espaces de la puissance: strategies et marqueurs de l'imperialite, (pp. 157-179). Potenza: Basilicata University Press. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2020). What's in a Word? Naming 'Muslims' in Medieval Christian Iberia. In Chris Jones, Conor Kostick, Klaus Oschema (Eds.), Making the Medieval Relevant: How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present, (pp. 225-238). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. [More Information]
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Journals
- Sirantoine, H. (2024). Raoul le Noir et la chute du royaume wisigothique de Tolede. Le surprenant recit de la conquete islamique de l’Espagne par un chroniqueur anglais de la fin du XIIe siècle (Ralph Niger and the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. The Astonishing Account of the Islamic Conquest of Spain by a Late-Twelfth Century English Chronicler). Cahiers de Civilisation Medievale, 266, 295-322. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2023). Cartularization and Genre Boundaries: Reflection on the Nondiplomatic Material of the Toledan Cartularies (End of the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century). Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 98(1), 164-212. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2021). 'Baddo, "Daughter of Arthur, King of England": Some Medieval Evidence of the Arthurian Filiation Attributed to a Sixth-Century Visigothic Queen". Viator: Medieval and Renaissance studies, 52(1), 137-170. [More Information]
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2024
- Sirantoine, H. (2024). Raoul le Noir et la chute du royaume wisigothique de Tolede. Le surprenant recit de la conquete islamique de l’Espagne par un chroniqueur anglais de la fin du XIIe siècle (Ralph Niger and the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. The Astonishing Account of the Islamic Conquest of Spain by a Late-Twelfth Century English Chronicler). Cahiers de Civilisation Medievale, 266, 295-322. [More Information]
2023
- Sirantoine, H. (2023). Cartularization and Genre Boundaries: Reflection on the Nondiplomatic Material of the Toledan Cartularies (End of the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century). Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 98(1), 164-212. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2023). Nos ancetres les Wisigoths ou Comment justifier la 'Reconquete' chretienne de la peninsule Iberique au Moyen Age (VIIIe-Xve siecles). In Benjamin Deruelle (Eds.), Quand l'Histoire sert a faire la guerre, (pp. 193-212). Montreal (Quebec): Lemeac.
- Sirantoine, H. (2023). When Being King Was Not Enough: Imperatores in Medieval Iberia (Ninth to Twelfth Century). In Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira and Fulvio Delle Donne (Eds.), Gli spazi del potere: strategie e attributi dell'imperialita - Les espaces de la puissance: strategies et marqueurs de l'imperialite, (pp. 157-179). Potenza: Basilicata University Press. [More Information]
2021
- Sirantoine, H. (2021). 'Baddo, "Daughter of Arthur, King of England": Some Medieval Evidence of the Arthurian Filiation Attributed to a Sixth-Century Visigothic Queen". Viator: Medieval and Renaissance studies, 52(1), 137-170. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2021). Mountains of doom and mountains of salvation: topographies of conflict in the early medieval Latin chronicles of Iberia. Journal of Medieval History, 47(3), 302-316. [More Information]
2020
- Sirantoine, H. (2020). What's in a Word? Naming 'Muslims' in Medieval Christian Iberia. In Chris Jones, Conor Kostick, Klaus Oschema (Eds.), Making the Medieval Relevant: How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present, (pp. 225-238). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. [More Information]
2018
- Deswarte, T., Herbers, K., Sirantoine, H. (2018). Epistola 1. Ecriture et genre epistolaires, IVe-XIe siecles. Madrid: Casa de Velazquez. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2018). Epistola 2. La Lettre diplomatique. Ecriture epistolaire et actes de la pratique dans l'Occident latin medieval. Madrid: Casa de Velazquez. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2018). Histories of the Islamic World in the Chronicles of the Kingdom of Leon (End-Ninth to Mid-Twelfth Centuries). Parergon, 35(2), 119-145. [More Information]
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2016
- Sirantoine, H. (2016). La guerra contra los musulmanes en los diplomas castellanoleoneses (siglo XI-1126). In Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Patrick Henriet, J Santiago Palacios Ontalva (Eds.), Origenes y desarrollo de la guerra santa en la Peninsula Iberica: Palabras e imagenes para una legitimacion (Siglos X-XIV), (pp. 51-65). Madrid: Casa de Velazquez.
2015
- Sirantoine, H. (2015). Exclusion e integracion: la conquista y el imperio en los reinados de Alfonso VI y Alfonso VII. In Ramiro Dominguez Hernanz (Eds.), El mundo de los Conquistadores. La penÃnsula ibérica en la Edad Media y su proyección en la conquista de América [Exclusion and Assimilation: Conquest and Empire under King Alfonso VI and King Alfonso VII], (pp. 321-353). Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas-UNAM.
- Sirantoine, H. (2015). L'acte diplomatique comme 'preuve' dans l'ecriture de l'histoire au travers de deux cas hispaniques. l'Historia Compostellana et le Corpus Pelagianum. In dEtienne Anheim, Pierre Chastang, Francine Mora-Lebrun et Anne Rochebouer (Eds.), L'Ecriture de l'histoire au Moyen Age: Contraintes generiques, contraintes documentaires, (pp. 235-247). Paris: Classiques Garnier.
2014
- Sirantoine, H. (2014). Un heritage romain tacite: imperium et imperatores dans le royaume leonais des IXe-XIIe siecles [A Tacit Roman Heritage: imperium and imperatores in the Kingdom of León from 9th to 12th c.]. In Julien Dubouloz, Sylvie Pittia, Gaetano Sabatini (Eds.), L'imperium Romanum en perspective: Les savoirs d'empire dans la Republique romaine et leur heritage dans l'Europe medievale et moderne, (pp. 355-370). Besancon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comte.
2013
- Sirantoine, H., Escalona, J. (2013). Chartes et cartulaires comme instruments de pouvoir : Espagne et Occident chrétien (VIIIe-XIIe s.) [Charters and Cartularies as Instruments of Power: Iberian Peninsula and Christian West (VIIIth-XIIth c.)]. Toulouse: Framespa.
- Henriet, P., Sirantoine, H. (2013). L'Eglise et le roi. Remarques sur les cartulaires iberiques enlumines (XIIe s.), avec une attention partiuliere au Liber Testamentorum de Pelage d'Oviedo. In H. Sirantoine, and J. Escalona (Eds.), Chartes et cartulaires comme instruments de pouvoir : Espagne et Occident chrétien (VIIIe-XIIe s.) [Charters and Cartularies as Instruments of Power: Iberian Peninsula and Christian West (VIIIth-XIIth c.)], (pp. 165-188). Toulouse: Framespa.
- Sirantoine, H., Escalona, J. (2013). Produit culturel et instrument de pouvoir: les vies de l'acte. In H. Sirantoine, and J. Escalona (Eds.), Chartes et cartulaires comme instruments de pouvoir : Espagne et Occident chrétien (VIIIe-XIIe s.) [Charters and Cartularies as Instruments of Power: Iberian Peninsula and Christian West (VIIIth-XIIth c.)], (pp. 9-23). Toulouse: Framespa.
2012
- Sirantoine, H. (2012). Imperator Hispaniae : Les Ideologies Imperiales dans le Royaume de Leon (IXe-XIIe siecles). Madrid: Casa de Velazquez.
- Sirantoine, H. (2012). L'Historia silensis et sa methode historique [The Historia Silensis and its Historical Method]. e-Spania, revue interdisciplinaire d'etudes hispaniques medievales et modernes, 14. [More Information]
- Sirantoine, H. (2012). La cancilleria regia en epoca de Fernando III: ideologia, discurso y practica. In Ayala Martinez, Martin Rios Saloma (Eds.), Fernando III, tiempo de cruzada, (pp. 175-203). Madrid: Silex ediciones.
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2010
- Sirantoine, H. (2010). Memoria Construida, Memoria Destruida: La Identidad Monarquica a Traves del Recuerdo de los Emperadores de Hispania en Los Diplomas de Los Soberanos Castellanos y Leoneses (1065-1230). In Jose Antonio Jara Fuente, Georges Martin, Isabel Alfonso Anton (Eds.), Construir la Identidad en la Edad Media: Poder y Memoria en la Castilla de Los Siglos VII al XV, (pp. 225-247). Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.
2009
- Sirantoine, H. (2009). L'Hispania dans la Chronica naiarensis. e-Spania, revue interdisciplinaire d'etudes hispaniques medievales et modernes, 7. [More Information]
2007
- Sirantoine, H. (2007). Le discours monarchique des Chroniques asturiennes (fin IXe siècle). Trois modes de légitimation pour les rois des Asturies [Monarchic Discourse in the Asturian Chronicles (end of IXth c.). Three modalities of legitimization for the Asturian Kings]. In Centro de Estudios e Investigacion San Isidoro, Leon (Eds.), MonarquÃa y Sociedad en el Reino de León. De Alfonso III a Alfonso VII, vol. 2, (pp. 793-819). Leon: Centro de Estudios e Investigacion ‘San Isidoro’.
2004
- Sirantoine, H. (2004). Sobre las primeras fuentes de los términos ‘andaluz’ y ‘AndalucÃa’: cum aliis multis Indeluciis y Alandaluf, unas ocurrencias documentales y cronÃsticas a mediados del siglo II. Anaquel de estudios arabes, 15, 185-190.
Selected Grants
2015
- Cultures of Modernities in the Global Medieval and Pre-Modern World, Amer S, Sirantoine H, Klein E, Anstey P, Gagne J, Borghesi F, Wooding J, Shaw J, Griffiths H, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/SSSHARC Collaborative Projects Support Scheme