Marie-Pierre Arnaud-Lindet

Marie-Pierre Arnaud-Lindet (22 December 1936 – 27 April 2018) was a Roman historian and Professor of History at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Education

Arnaud-Lindet received her PhD from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her thesis was entitled Recherches sur Orose historien: sources et méthodes de compositions des "Histoires".^[1] Her doctoral research was supervised by Joël Le Gall.

Career

Paulus Orosius, as imagined in an eleventh-century manuscript

Marie-Pierre Arnaud-Lindet (nee Arnaud) was Maître-Assistante d'Histoire romaine at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.^{[2] [3]} She was a history teacher at the Lycée Le Corbusier in Poissy from 1967 to 1968.

Arnaud-Lindet was an expert on the late antique historian Paulus Orosius (fl. early fifth century CE). She wrote five books, including translations of Orosius' Historiae adversus paganos and Festus' Breviarium.^{[4] [5]} R. A. Markus considered that Arnaud-Lindet's translation of Orosius read well and was 'handsomely produced'.^[6]

Death

Arnaud-Lindet died on 27 April 2018. She was buried on 4 May at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

Bibliography

• Histoires contre les païens (Paulus Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos) (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1990-91) 3 volumes
• Aide-mémoire (Lucius Ampelius, Liber memorialis) (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1993)
• L'Orose de Wrocław (Rehdigeranus 107) : sa composition et sa place dans la tradition manuscrite des Histoires d'Orose (Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 1997)
• Histoire et politique à Rome, Les historiens romains, IIIe s. av. J.-C. - Ve s. av. J.-C. (Paris, Pocket, 2001)
• Synthèse thématique d'histoire romaine (Nantes: Editions du Temps, 2004)
• (with Bernadette Cabouret) L'Afrique romaine de 69 à 439 (Nantes: Temps, 2005)