Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile

E-mail: castelnau.lestoile@gmail.com

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Visiting professor in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2023). Professor of Brazilian history at the Université Sorbonne and at the Center Roland Mousnier: Center de recherche en histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine. She was a professor at the Université de Nanterre, École Française de Rome, Universidade Federal Fluminense and Université Paris Diderot. PhD in History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, with a thesis on the Jesuit project in colonial Brazil, having carried out part of her research in Brazil and Rome. Her studies focus on aspects of colonial Catholicism and slavery in colonial societies in America, particularly in Brazil. Leader of a research team at the Université de Paris, at the laboratory Identités, Cultures, Territoires. She is coordinator of the New Clio Collection at Presses Universitaires de France. Author of several studies, in 2019 she published a reference work on the theme of Brazilian colonial society in the 16th-17th centuries: The publication “Páscoa et ses deux maris: Une esclave entre Angola, Brésil et Portugal au XVIIe siècle” was welcomed by the general public and specialized, obtaining two distinctions: Prix Lycéen du Livre d’histoire des Rendez-Vous de l’Histoire de Blois and the Prix du Sénat du Livre d’histoire. The work was translated and published in Brazil (2020) and Portugal (2022) as “Páscoa Vieira before the Inquisition: A slave between Angola, Brazil and Portugal in the 17th century”.

Main Publications

• Páscoa Vieira diante da Inquisição: Uma escrava entre Angola, Brasil e Portugal no século XVII, Bazar do Tempo 2020.
• Páscoa et ses deux maris – Une esclave entre Angola, Brésil et Portugal au XVIIe siècle, PUF, 2019.
• Un catholicisme colonial – Le mariage des Indiens et des esclaves au Brésil, PUF, 2019.
• Charlotte De Castelnau-L’Estoile, Marie-Lucie Copete, Aliocha Maldavsky, Inès G. Županov (Dir.) Missions d’évangélisation et circulation des savoirs, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Casa de Velázquez, 2011.
• Les ouvriers d’une vigne stérile – Les jésuites et la conversion des Indiens au Brésil (1580-1620), Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2000.