Eloise Adde joined CEU in 2021. She defended her PhD thesis on “Dalimil’s Chronicle” and the Beginnings of Czech National Historiography in the Vernacular Language at Paris Panthéon Sorbonne (Medieval History) and Paris Sorbonne university (Czech Literature) in 2011.
Her research focuses on state-building and nation, political thought and discourse, and the rise of "individuals" and individualism in late-medieval Brabant and Bohemia. An important part of her research deals with manuscripts and the dissemination of texts and ideas.
Funded research projects
2020-2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, H2020-MSCA-IF-20, Saint-Louis University Brussels. Topic: Nation – Power – Subjectivity: The Making of National Subjects in Late Medieval Bohemia and Brabant (1300-1450)
2015-2018 FNR-CORE, University of Luxembourg. Topic: Luxdynast. The Europe of the Luxembourg Dynasty. Governance, Delegation and Participation between Region and Empire (1308-1437)
2013-2015 FNR-AFR grant, University of Luxembourg. Topic: The Ideology of the Nobility and the Public Space in Bohemia (1306-1415)
2013 Fernand Braudel-Clemens Heller grant, Institut für Slawistik, Humboldt University, Berlin. Topic: The Maturation of Political Ideas in Late-Medieval Bohemian lands (1300-1415)
2011-2012 MAEE, CNRS, CEFRES, Prague. Topic: Corporeity and Politics. A Reflection between Medieval History and Philosophy
Key Publications
Monographs
In preparation: Nation - Power - Subjectivity: The Making of National Subjects in Late Medieval Bohemia and Brabant (1300-1450)
Edited volumes
(with Michel Margue) publication of the proceedings of the international conference: Les Luxembourg, projet dynastique et construction de la domination entre perspectives globales et locales, Böhlau/Regesta Imperii, Wien Köln Weimar, (2024).
(with Jonathan Dumont) publication of the proceedings of two international conferences dedicated to: Naturalisation and Legitimation of Power (1300-1800), Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, Firenze (2024).
Shaping the Nation in Medieval Europe, in: The Medieval Globe 10 (2024).
Community, Identity, Individuals: Shaping the (Political) Nation in Premodern Europe, Trivent, Budapest (2024).
Articles (selection)
Nation–Power–Subjectivity: The Making of National Subjects in Bohemia and Brabant at the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century, in: The Medieval Chronicle, 16, 2024.
Fragility or sustainability of the medieval State? The function of uprisings in the chronicle of the pseudo Dalimil (Bohemia, cc. 1310), in: Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Vorträge und Forschungen: Fragile Fürstenherrschaft im spätmittelalterlichen Europa, ed. By Martin Kissinger, Klara Hübner, 2024.
The League of Lords between feudalism and the modern state? Diversity of state models, political agency, and opposition in late-medieval Bohemia (1394–1405), in: DIVERSITAS (Sigis)MUNDI. Politische, soziale, religiöse und kulturelle Vielfalt in der Zeit Sigismunds von Luxemburg (1368–1437), ed. by Julia Burckhardt, Hungarian Historical Revues, special issue, 2024.
The “natural lord” and the nation: the naturalization of the state in the Czech lands in the 13th-15th centuries, in: Éloïse Adde and Jonathan Dumont, publication of the proceedings of the international conference: Naturalisation and Legitimation of Power (1300-1800). An Attempt at a Comparative History, Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, Firenze, 2024.
De malis, que post mortem regis Przsemysl acciderunt. L’impact de l’enlèvement du roi Venceslas II sur la vie politique en Bohême, in: Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes (CRMH), 2020, 39, pp. 27-42
« Communauté du royaume » et affirmation de la noblesse dans les pays tchèques (13e-14e siècles), in : Dominique Barthélemy, Isabelle Guyot-Bachy, Frédérique Lachaud and Jean-Marie Mœglin (ed.), La « communauté du royaume » (Angleterre, Écosse, France, Empire, Scandinavie), de la fin du 10e siècle au début du 14e siècle, théories et pratiques, Nancy – 6 novembre / 8 novembre 2014, Presses universitaires de Paris Sorbonne, Paris, 2019, pp. 313-329
Recent Courses
Core class + tutorial: The Medieval Nation
Faculty Research Seminar II.
Historiography: Topics in Its History and Theory (seminar)
Historiography and Politics in the Middle Ages
Medieval French (reading and translation of old and middle French sources)
Manuscripts, Textual Flow, New Audiences. Production and Reception of Texts (14th-15th Centuries)
Nation-Building, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage
Uses and Abuses of the Past in Cultural Heritage
French Circle (reading group)
PhD Supervision
2022 Samuel Beňa: All the King's Men: Military Service, Royal Army, and the Noble Leagues in Late Medieval Bohemia (1413–1465) (with Balázs Nagy)