Centre for Medieval Studies
Luke Giraudet
Luke completed his PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies in December 2019, passing his viva with no corrections in February 2020. His thesis examined political communication, public opinion and evidence for the existence of pre-modern public spheres in an anonymous Parisian journal, the so-called Journal d’un bourgeois de Paris, accompanied by an assessment of extant manuscript copies of the text culminating in a new critical edition. His current research builds upon these themes, assessing a variety of journals produced in Paris and other northern French towns during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He is also working towards publishing his thesis as a monograph.
Thesis title: Political Communication and Public Opinion in the Journal d’un bourgeois de Paris, 1405-1449.
Research areas: Medieval studies, Middle French, medieval historiography, urban history, communication theory, rumour, manuscripts and codicology, incunabula and sixteenth-century printed texts.