Luce Pietri
Luce Pietri was a French historian and scholar of late antiquity.
Education
Pietri attended the Lycée Thiers in Marseille and École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in 1952.Career
Pietri is known for her work on late antique history and early Christianity, especially the history of Gaul, and prosopography. She has also published editions of the hagiographies of Gregory of Tours.In 1992–93 she was appointed a Professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University. During the 1990s, she was the director of Centre Lenain de Tillemont at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
Personal life and death
Married to the historian Charles Pietri, together they had three children.Luce Pietri died on 15 February 2024, at the age of 92.
Selected publications
La topographie chrétienne des cités de la Gaule des origines à la fin du VIIe siècle. Paris: Publications du Centre de Recherches sur l'Antiquité tardive et le Haut Moyen-âge.La ville de Tours du IVe au VIe siècle. Naissance d'une cité chrétienne. Rome, Publications de l'École Française de Rome.- ed. with Marc Venard. Le monde et son histoire, 2 vols. Paris: Robert Laffont.
- ed. with Charles Pietri, André Vauchez, Marc Venard, and Jean-Marie Mayeur. Histoire du christianisme des origines à nos jours, 14 vols. Paris: Desclée.Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire: Prosopographie de l'Italie chrétienne ''. Rome: Publications de l'École Française de Rome. Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire: La Gaule chrétienne. Paris: ACHCByz. 2013.Grégoire de Tours. La Gloire des martyrs . Paris: Les Belles Lettres.Grégoire de Tours. La Vie des Pères'', Paris: Les Belles Lettres.