Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber was a French medieval historian, a leading specialist of late medieval and Renaissance Tuscany, and a pioneer in the history of women and gender. Her work combined quantitative history, historical anthropology, and close reading of textual and visual sources. She spent her entire academic career at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), which became the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 1975.