Antony Roch
Dr Assistant, Lecturer
Lecturer
Department of History
Biography
Born in Fribourg in 1989; Studies in History (specializing in ancient and medieval history) and Sciences of Religions at the University of Fribourg from 2010 to 2015 (Master's degree in 2015), PhD (obtained in June 2021). His approach is to highlight an interconnected history of the medieval West and East. His research and subjects cover the history of the papacy and the medieval Church, the history of symbolic and material representations of power in medieval society, and Byzantine civilization and its interconnection with the medieval West. He completed his PhD on the construction and transformation of the symbolic and material identity of the cardinalate in the late Middle Ages, under the supervision of Professor Hans-Joachim Schmidt.
Research and publications
- Publications
Antony Roch, « Le pape-empereur et ses cardinaux-sénateurs. Le réinvestissement de l’idéal symbolique de l’Empire Romain dans la papauté de la Première Renaissance », in Claudia d’Alberto (dir.), Imago Papae. Le pape en image du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine, Campisano Editore, Rome, 2020 (pp. 181-188)
Antony Roch, « Les cardinaux sous l'influence des canonistes médiévaux : construction et mutations du champ symbolique cardinalice à la fin du Moyen Âge » in Florence Demoulin-Auzary, Nicolas Laurent-Bonne, & Franck Roumy (ed.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law. Paris, 17-23 July 2016, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2022 (pp. 375-385) - Publications prévues
Antony Roch, Les visages du cardinal. Construction et transformations de l’identité symbolique et matérielle du cardinalat à la fin du Moyen Âge et sous la première Renaissance, Turnhout, Brepols – (à paraître)