Cécile Morrisson


Cécile Morrisson is a French historian and numismatist. She is Director of Research emeritus at the French National Center for Scientific Research and specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire.

Biography

Cécile Morrisson was born on 16 June 1940 in Dinan, France. She studied at the École normale supérieure, and obtained her doctorate in history at ENS-Ulm.
She was director of the department of coins, medals and antiquities of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. She is Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS and Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington.
She is a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since December 11, 2015. She was awarded the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1994, and the British Academy's Derek Allen Prize for numismatics in 1999.

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