Bruno Laurioux is a French medievalist historian born in 1959 in Loudun.
[1] Alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (1979), Bruno Laurioux passes his History Agrégation (1982) and a PhD at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University with a thesis on "The Cookbooks in the West at the end of the Middle Ages" (1992).
[2][3] He taught as a lecturer at the Paris 8 University (1993-1998) and at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University (1998-2005), and then as teacher at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University (since 2005),[4] where he is deputy director of the host team ESR-Middle-Ages-modern times.
[5][6] After having been Deputy Scientific Director for the ancient and medieval worlds in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (2006-2008), he becomes Director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the CNRS (2008).
Appointed in February 2009 Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences[7][8] of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, he retired the 15 April 2010.