Dubourg Ninon

Département des sciences historiques > Histoire du Moyen Age tardif et de la Renaissance

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ORCID
0000-0002-0224-7192
Main Referenced Co-authors
Maria Podzorova (2)
Masson, Christophe  (2)
Bernardo, LauraCayrol (1)
Brégain, Gildas (1)
Delphine Piétu (1)
Main Referenced Keywords
History (3); Disability (2); Religious Studies (2); Social Sciences (all) (2); Apostolic Penitentiary (1);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
Transitions - Transitions (Département de recherches sur le Moyen Âge tardif & la première Modernité) - ULiège (1)
Main Referenced Disciplines
History (80)
Art & art history (1)
Sociology & social sciences (1)

Publications (total 81)

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N. Dubourg. Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages, Un/suitable for divine service?. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/318652

The most cited

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N. Dubourg. "European medieval disability history: An overview." In Handbook of Disability: Critical Thought and Social Change in a Globalizing World. Springer, 2024. doi:10.1007/978-981-19-6056-7_2 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/335700

Books published as author or co-author

(tbp) Disability and War in the Middle Ages.Edited by N. Dubourg and C. Masson. York, United Kingdom: Arc Humanity Press, 2025.
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(tbp) A Cultural History of Madness in the Middle Ages.Edited by N. Dubourg and W. Turner. Londres, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2025.
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(tbp) Pour une nouvelle histoire du handicap.Edited by N. Dubourg, G. Brégain, and Fabrice Bertin. France: TBD, 2025.
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N. Dubourg. Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages, Un/suitable for divine service?. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2023.
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Book chapters or contributions to a collective book as author or co-author

N. Dubourg. "(tbp) Disability and religious practices." In The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Disabilityby Jenni Kuuliala and Christina Lee. New York, United States: Routledge, 2026.
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N. Dubourg. "(tbp) Deformitas et célébration de l’eucharistie dans le droit canon médiéval." In Deformitas, Disability & Diritto: letture interdisciplinariby Ida Gilda Mastrorosa. Lecce, Italy: Pensa Multimedia, 2026.
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N. Dubourg and L. Bernardo. "(tbp) Old Age and Medicine." In A Cultural History of Old Age in the Medieval Eraby L. Laumonier and J. T. Rosenthal. Londres, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2025.
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N. Dubourg. "(tbp) The ‘blind’, the ‘deaf' and the ‘dumb’. Liturgical practices of sensory and mentally disabled people." In The Role of the Senses in Medieval Liturgies and Ritualsby Zuleika Murat, Sara Carreno, and Valentina Baradel. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2025.
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N. Dubourg. "(tbp) Fasting and the shortage of olive oil in the cold regions in the 15th century. Health and salvation through the grace of the Apostolic Penitentiary." In Santé des corps, salut des âmes: soins et religion en milieu ruralby Nathalie Dahn Singh, Madeline Favre, Guillaume Favrod, and Lucas Rappo. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2025.
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N. Dubourg. "European medieval disability history: An overview." In Handbook of Disability: Critical Thought and Social Change in a Globalizing World. Springer, 2024. doi:10.1007/978-981-19-6056-7_2
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N. Dubourg. "Un/Acceptable Disability? Defectus Corporis, Scandalum, and Pontifical Grace." In Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle Agesby Teodora Artimon. Budapest, Hungary: Trivent Publishing, 2024.
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N. Dubourg. "Expertis medicis videatur: Legal Medical Expertise in the Apostolic Chancery’s Assessment of Personal Injury Damages during the Avignon Period (1309–1378)." In Art of illnessby Turner Wendy. New York, United States: Routledge, 2024. doi:10.4324/9781003452324-13
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N. Dubourg. "L’incapacité dans les lettres de dispenses pontificales - Aller à l’encontre de la réglementation ecclésiastique médiévale pour franchir la clôture." In L’exception et la Règle. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2022. doi:10.4000/books.pur.161052
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N. Dubourg. "European Medieval Disability History: An Overview." In Handbook of Disability. Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. doi:10.1007/978-981-16-1278-7_2-1
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N. Dubourg. "Clerical Leprosy and the Ecclesiastical Office : Dis/Ability and Canon Law." In New Approaches to Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europeby Erin Connelly and Stefanie Kunzel. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress, 2018. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1nzfw4t
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N. Dubourg. "Deo iudicio percusset, L’idée de contamination d’après les suppliques et les lettres pontificales." In Alter-habilitas. Perception of disability among peopleby Silvia Carraro. https://www.academia.edu/36969143/ALTER-HABILITAS_Percezione_della_disabilit%C3%A0_nei_popoli_Perception_of_Disability_among_People_a_cura_di_edited_by. Vérone, Italy: Alteritas, 2018.
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N. Dubourg. "Being a Leprous Cleric : a social rejection? (XIIIth and XIVth c.)." In Premodern Dis/ability History. A Companionby Cordula Nolte, Bianca Frohne, Uta Halle, and Sonja Kerth. Affalterbach, Germany: Dydimos, 2017.
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Articles accepted in reviewed journal

N. Dubourg. "Vieillissement et expériences de vie sous la règle au milieu du XVe siècle." Quaderni di Storia Religiosa Medievale, 2023, no. 2 (01 December 2023): 253 - 283. doi:10.32052/112389
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N. Dubourg and C. Masson. "Webinaire - Ninon Dubourg et Christophe Masson (org.), Disability and War in the Middle Ages." Frontière·s : Revue d’Archéologie, Histoire & Histoire de l’Art, 8 (2023).
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N. Dubourg and M. Kateb. "Témoignages médiévaux de la privation des sens." Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologieno. 165 (2021): 62-67. doi:10.4000/nda.13063
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N. Dubourg. "« Ad obsequium divinum inhabilem », la reconnaissance de la condition de personne infirme par la chancellerie pontificale (XIIe – XIVe siècles)." Alter, 14, no. 3 (September 2020): 226 - 235. doi:10.1016/j.alter.2020.01.002
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N. Dubourg. "Émasculations cléricales. Itinéraires particuliers pour aborder l'identité du clerc émasculé (XIIe-XVe siècle)." Encyclo : Revue de l'école doctorale Sciences des Sociétés ED 624, 4 (2014).
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Book reviews

N. Dubourg. "Benjamin Wheaton, Suffering, Not Power. Atonement in the Middle Ages, Bellingham (WA), Lexham Academic, 2022." Moyen Age : Revue d'Histoire et de Philologie, 129, no. 2 (14 April 2024): 568-569. doi:10.3917/rma.292.0533a
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N. Dubourg. "Archéologie de la santé, anthropologie du soin sous la dir. par Alain Froment et Hervé Guy." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 32, no. 2 (2024).
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N. Dubourg. "Sari KATAJALA-PELTOMAA, Jenni KUULIALA et Iona MCCLEERY (dir.), A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections, Berlin-Boston, Brill, 2021." Moyen Age : Revue d'Histoire et de Philologie, Tome CXXVIII, no. 3 (11 April 2023): 759-882. doi:10.3917/rma.283.0759
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N. Dubourg. "Comptes rendus. Arnaud Fossier, Le bureau des âmes. Écritures et pratiques administratives de la Pénitencerie apostolique (XIIIe-XIVe siècle), Rome, École française de Rome, 2018, 648 p." Annales, 78, no. 1 (2023): 159 - 161. doi:10.1017/ahss.2023.50
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N. Dubourg. "P. Zutshi. The Avignon Popes and Their Chancery. Collected Essays." Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, 117, no. 1-2 (July 2022): 299-460. doi:10.1484/j.rhe.5.130695
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N. Dubourg. "Jenny KUULIALA, Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages, Amsterdam, Amsterdam UP, 2020." Moyen Age : Revue d'Histoire et de Philologie, Tome CXXVII, no. 3 (24 April 2022): 681-787. doi:10.3917/rma.273.0681
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N. Dubourg. "Illness and Authority. Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi by Donna Trembinski." Canadian Journal of Health History, 39, no. 1 (01 April 2022): 180-182. doi:10.3138/cjhh.543-082021
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N. Dubourg. "The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ed. L. Devriese." Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, 117, no. 3-4 (2022): 796-797. doi:10.1484/J.RHE.5.132875
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N. Dubourg. "Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550 ed. by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia (review)." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2022).
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N. Dubourg. "Glenn D. Burger / Holly A. Crocker (eds.): Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019." Sehepunkte (2022).
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N. Dubourg. "Modus Vivendi. Religious Reform and the Laity in Late Medieval Europe. Ed. by M. Rubin." Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, 116, no. 3-4 (July 2021): 893-1081. doi:10.1484/j.rhe.5.128065
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N. Dubourg. "L’Inflammatorium poenitentiæ. Le vice de l’acédie et les vertus de l’imagination. Éd. F. Coste." Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, 116, no. 1-2 (January 2021): 387-564. doi:10.1484/j.rhe.5.125435
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N. Dubourg. "Jenny KUULIALA, Childhood Disability and Social Integration in the Middle Ages: Constructions of Impairments in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Canonization Processes, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016." Moyen Age : Revue d'Histoire et de Philologie, 2020/1, CXXVI (2020).
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N. Dubourg. "Juger les fous au Moyen Âge dans les tribunaux royaux en France (XIVe–XVe siècles), par Maud Ternon." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 36, no. 1 (April 2019): 244-247. doi:10.3138/cbmh.289-092018
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N. Dubourg. "Elizabeth W. Mellyn Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy Philadelphie, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 304 p." Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 73, no. 2 (June 2018): 521-522. doi:10.1017/ahss.2019.29
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N. Dubourg. "Damien Boquet, Piroska Nagy, Sensible Moyen Âge, Une histoire des émotions dans l’Occident médiéval, L’Univers historique, Seuil, Paris, 2015." Meminino. 22-23 (2017). doi:10.4000/memini.1018
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Oral presentations in conferences with scientific selection committee

N. Dubourg. "Material History of Premodern Disability, An Interdisciplinary History of Mobility Aids in the Medieval Period." Paper presented at American Historical Association, San Francisco, United States, 2024.
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N. Dubourg. "The collective Butterbriefe and the Apostolic Penitentiary (1455-1521)." Paper presented at Penitential Hierarchies in the later Middle Ages, Paris, France, 2023.
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N. Dubourg. "Morte a ce monde’, living in the leprosarium of Cornillon (Liège) in the 15th century." Paper presented at ALTER 11th International Conference, Paris, France, 2023.
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N. Dubourg. "Ageing in Liège: networks of institutional care on a city scale." Paper presented at International Medieval Congress, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2023.
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N. Dubourg. "L’expertise médicale au service de l’évaluation des dommages corporels par la chancellerie apostolique pendant la période avignonnaise (1309-1378)." Paper presented at International conference: Pouvoir et santé entre Moyen Âge et Temps modernes, Louvain, Belgium, 2023.
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N. Dubourg. "’Secundum assertionem et consilium medicorum’ – Petitioners as patients in front of the Apostolic Chancery (Avignon Period, 1309-1378)." Paper presented at The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages III ‘Patients, Prayers and Pilgrims’, Reading, United Kingdom, 2022.
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N. Dubourg. "Ageing During the 15th Century: At the Intersection of Gender and Ability Gender bias in the requested hygienic accommodations from the Apostolic Penitentiary by elderly monks and nuns." Paper presented at Gender and Medieval Studies, Londres, United Kingdom, 2022.
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N. Dubourg. "Disabled Old Women against Romance: the depictions of "La Vieille", Frontier of Love in Le roman de la Rose." Paper presented at IMC Leeds 2022, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2022.
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N. Dubourg. "The ambivalence of old age confronted with practical sources: the cases of elderly regular clerics facing the pontifical institution." Paper presented at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, United States, 2022.
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N. Dubourg. "'The Literary and Illuminated Depictions of "La Vieille" - A Disabled Old Women as a 'narrative prosthesis'." Paper presented at CHSTM - Medieval European Medical Manuscripts, 2022.
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N. Dubourg. "Gender, old age, disability and religiosity. The intersectionality invoked by petitioners to contravene Christian prescriptions." Paper presented at IMC Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2021.
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N. Dubourg. "Disabling Consequences of Illnesses on Clerics’ Recruitment in 1459: (Re-)Inclusion of Disabled People within the Church by Pius II." Paper presented at Virtual conference 'Reconsidering Illness and Recovery in the Early Modern World', Funded by the Durham University Centre for Academic Development, 2020.
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N. Dubourg. "In/capables d’assurer le service divin? Les requêtes des prêtres handicapés auprès de la chancellerie pontificale (13e-14e siècles)." Paper presented at Journées Jeunes Chercheurs en histoire des sciences et des techniques 2020, France, 2020.
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N. Dubourg. "Sicut Domino placuit ortus fuisti, disabled children’s births according to the Papal Chancery during the 13th century." Paper presented at “Deviance: Aspects & Approaches”, Fifteenth Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2019.
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N. Dubourg. "The Canon Law’s Category of the Defectus Corporis and Scandal." Paper presented at IMC Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2019.
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N. Dubourg. "Religiosity and Disability in the Papal Letters (13th and 14th centuries)." Paper presented at Experiences of Dis/ability from the Late Middle Ages to the Mid-Twentieth Century Conference, Tampere, Finland, 2019.
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N. Dubourg. "Marginalization on the Margins? Historical Perspectives on the Representations of Physical Disability in some Medieval Manuscript’s margins." Paper presented at Permeable Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, Londres, United Kingdom, 2018.
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N. Dubourg. "Les disability studies et la discipline historique: la disability history, état des lieux international et perspectives françaises." Paper presented at Les désignations disciplinaires et leurs contenus: le paradigme des studies, Paris, France, 2017.
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N. Dubourg. "Expériences sociales dans un contexte institutionnel: Le latin utilisé par les clercs français pour décrire le handicap." Paper presented at Society for French Studies 57th Annual Conference, GLosgow, United Kingdom, 2016.
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