Isabelle Pantin

Isabelle Pantin (born 1952,[1] née Carteron)[2] is a French literary scholar, historian of science, and expert on Renaissance literature, scientific publications from the Renaissance, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.[3] She is a professor emerita of literature and language at the École normale supérieure (Paris).[4]

Education and career

Pantin received a diploma from the École normale supérieur in 1972.[2] She worked as a resident at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and directed the libraries of the ENS Jourdan and Montrouge campuses from 1985 to 1989. She became a lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle University from 1989 to 1995, and then a professor at Le Mans University and Paris Nanterre University before returning to the École normale supérieur as a professor in 2007.[4] She was deputy director of the Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine [fr], a joint research institute of CNRS, the ENS, and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, from 2013 to 2017.[1]

Books

Pantin is the author of:

  • La Poésie du ciel en France dans la seconde moitié du seizième siècle (Geneva: Droz, 1995)[5]
  • Tolkien et ses légendes. Une expérience en fiction (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2009)[6]

She is the editor of critical editions and translations (from Latin into French) of:

  • Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVI e siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1986)[7]
  • Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius/Le Messager céleste (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1992)[8]
  • Johannes Kepler, Dissertatio cum nuncio sidereo; Narratio de observatis Jovis satellitibus: Discussion avec le messager céleste; Rapport sur l'observation des satellites de Jupiter (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1993)[9]
  • La Mariane du Filomène (1596; with Nicole Cazauran, Paris: Klinck-sieck, 1998)[10]

Her edited volumes include:

  • Mise en forme des savoirs à la Renaissance. A la croisée des idées, des techniques et des publics (with Gérald Péoux, Paris: Armand Colin, 2013)[11]

Recognition

Pantin was elected corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 2007, before becoming full member in 2016.[12] A festschrift, D'Uranie à Gollum : mélanges en l'honneur d'Isabelle Pantin, edited by Jean-Charles Monferran, Tristan Vigliano, and Alice Vintenon, was published by Honoré Champion in 2024.

References

  1. ^ a b "Pantin, Isabelle (1952-.... ; philologue)", idRef, retrieved 2025-09-18
  2. ^ a b L'Annuaire, Association des anciens élèves de l'école normale supérieure, retrieved 2025-09-18
  3. ^ Larmagnac-Matheron, Octave (Summer–Fall 2022), "Isabelle Pantin : Tolkien et l'écho d'un monde perdu", Philosophie Magazine, no. HS54, pp. 13–16, doi:10.3917/phimag.hs054.0008
  4. ^ a b Isabelle Pantin (in French), ESL Département Littératures et langage, retrieved 2025-09-18
  5. ^ Reviews of La Poésie du ciel en France dans la seconde moitié du seizième siècle:
  6. ^ Reviews of Tolkien et ses légendes:
  7. ^ Review of Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVI e siècle: Louis Desgraves (1987), Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, JSTOR 20677560
  8. ^ Reviews of Sidereus Nuncius:
    • Maurice Clavelin (1994), Revue d'histoire des sciences, JSTOR 23633510
    • Guy Demerson (1993), Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance, [2]
    • Giancarlo Nonnoi (1993), The British Journal for the History of Science, JSTOR 4027406
    • William A. Wallace (1994), Isis, JSTOR 236531
  9. ^ Reviews of Dissertatio cum nuncio sidereo:
    • Maurice Clavelin (1995), Revue d'histoire des sciences, JSTOR 23633810
    • Wolfgang Kokott (1996), Sudhoffs Archiv, JSTOR 20777556
    • Emmanuel Poulle (1993), Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, JSTOR 20679496
    • James R. Voelkel (1994), Isis, JSTOR 235494
  10. ^ Reviews of La Mariane du Filomène:
    • Richard Crescenzo (1999), Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France,, JSTOR 40533976
    • François Lasserre (1999), Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, JSTOR 20678631
  11. ^ Reviews of Mise en forme des savoirs à la Renaissance:
  12. ^ "Isabelle Pantin", Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (in French), retrieved 2025-09-19

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