Emmanuel Francis
- Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS)
- Centre d'études sud asiatiques et himalayennes (CESAH)
Présentation
Historien, sanskritiste et tamoulisant Sources épigraphiques et manuscrites du sud de l'Inde Chargé de recherche au CNRS depuis 2012
Domaines de recherche
Publications
Publications
About Two Projects in Tamil Inscriptions and Manuscripts StudiesTamil Literature: From the Madurai Sangam to the Halls of Oxford, University of Oxford, Jun 2024, Oxford (UK), United Kingdom |
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Protection Language(s) in inscriptions of the Tamil South (4th–15th c.)Gift Protection in South and Southeast Asia, CESAH, Sep 2024, Aubervilliers, France |
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Les manuscrits « Vinson » de la BnFJournée d'études tamoules 3 : Julien Vinson (1843-1926), de Karikal à la BNF, INALCO, May 2023, Paris, France |
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De quelques sceaux du sud de l'IndeJournée du Monde Indien (2023), GREI, Jun 2023, Paris, France |
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Multilingual Inscriptions in the Tamil Area (South India, 7th-14th Century)Mixing Languages and Scripts: Material from Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Hamburg Universität, CSMC, May 2022, Hamburg, Germany |
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The Domestication of “Hindu” Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast AsiaDH (Digital Humanities ) 2022, Jul 2022, Tokyo, Japan |
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Blessings in Tamil ManuscriptsTST Final Workshop 2022, CSMC, Hamburg, Jun 2022, Hamburg, Germany |
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TST and BeyondTST Final Workshop, CSMC, Hamburg, Jun 2022, Hamburg, Germany |
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DHARMA and TST projects: Work in Progress and Further Steps2nd ENDS Meeting, ENDS, Jun 2021, Hamburg, Germany |
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For the Library of the King of FranceTexts Surrounding Texts webinar (TST Webinar 6-7 ), TST, 2021, Paris, France |
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TST Onward and UpwardTST Paris Workshop, Oct 2021, Paris, France |
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Transcribing and Transliterating Tamil ManuscriptsTexts Surrounding Texts Webinar 4, 2021, Paris, France |
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The Ducler Collection of Manuscripts (BnF)TST Paris Workshop, Oct 2021, Paris, France |
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L’encodage et le catalogage TEI de textes tamoulsANF Digital Areal, DISTAM, Nov 2021, Fréjus, France |
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Languages (and Scripts) of Power in the Tamil South of India: A bird’s eye view in the very <i>longue durée</i>Asia Beyond Boundaries: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Primary Sources from the Premodern World, Leiden University, Aug 2018, Leiden, Netherlands |
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Kāma/<i>kāma</i> et le roi dans les inscriptions des Pallava (7e – 9e s.)L’amour de l’Inde, l’amour dans l’Inde (13e Journée du Monde Indien), Jun 2018, Paris, France |
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Notable Features of Tamil Palm-Leaf Manuscripts Unmentioned in CataloguesManuscript cataloguing in a comparative perspective: state of the art, common challenges, future directions, Universität Hamburg; CSMC, May 2018, Hamburg, Germany |
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South-Indian Copper-plate Grants: Between Inscriptions and DocumentsEpigraphie et Histoire de l’art de l’Inde Méridionale: En mémoire du Professeur Noboru Karashima, EPHE; Paris 4, Oct 2017, Paris, France |
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Copper plates from the DATAH collectionsDATAH - Exploring the Digital Archive of Tamil Agrarian History 1650-1950, DATAH, Feb 2017, Pondicherry, India |
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Usage of Meykkīrttis in Cōḻa-Period (10th-13th c.)Raja-mandala: In the Kings’ Circle, CEIAS; Musée du Quai Branly; UNIL, Jun 2017, Paris, France |
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Śālaṅkāyana Inscriptions (ca 300‒450): EIAD 159‒168From Vijayapurī to Śrīkṣetra? The beginnings of Buddhist exchange across the Bay of Bengal, EFEO, Jul 2017, Pondicherry, India |
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Supplementing Poetry and Devotion8th NETamil Workhop, Apr 2017, Hamburg, Germany |
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Le sixième bienfait de la vache (<i>āṟāmāvaram</i>)Tamoul : regards pluridisciplinaires, INALCO, Jun 2017, Paris, France |
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Royal Titulature in Inscriptions from Tamil NaduThe Power of Titles, EFEO, Dec 2017, Paris, France |
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Le temps de rois hindous à l’« âge de fer » : un nouvel « âge d’or »Temps et temporalité en Asie du Sud-Est, CAMNAM, Nov 2017, Paris, France |
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Towards a History of the BnF Collection of Tamil ManuscriptsEmmanuel Francis; Eva Wilden. South-Indian Manuscripts in Hamburg and Paris: Paratexts and Provenance, TST project (ANR & DFG, 2019-2023), Dept. of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, pp.163-192, 2025 |
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IntroductionEmmanuel Francis; Eva Wilden. South-Indian Manuscripts in Hamburg and Paris: Paratexts and Provenance, TST project (ANR & DFG, 2019-2023), Dept. of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, pp.1-23, 2025 |
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Between Two Rivers: The Śālaṅkāyana Charters (EIAD 159–168, ca. 300–450 CE)Arlo Griffiths; Akira Shimada; Vincent Tournier. Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus, 25 (2), Brill; Leiden, pp.334-376, 2025, Gonda Indological Studies, 9789004744097. ⟨10.1163/9789004744097_010⟩ |
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Blessings in Tamil ManuscriptsEmmanuel Francis; Eva Wilden. South-Indian Manuscripts in Hamburg and Paris: Paratexts and Provenance, TST project (ANR & DFG, 2019-2023), 17, Dept. of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, pp.26-56, 2025, INDIAN AND TIBETAN STUDIES, 978-3-945151-16-7 |
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Mixing Languages and Scripts in Tamil Inscriptions and ManuscriptsSzilvia Sövegjártó; Márton Vér. Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts, 38, De Gruyter, pp.205-234, 2024, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 9783111380483. ⟨10.1515/9783111380544-008⟩ |
Cōḻa Copper Plates (10th–13th c.): Languages and IssuersAppasamy Murugaiyan; Edith Parlier-Renault. Whispering of Inscriptions: South Indian Epigraphy and Art History: Papers from an International Symposium in memory of Professor Noboru Karashima (Paris, 12–13 October 2017). Volume 1, Indica et Buddhica, 2021 |
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Imperial Languages and Public Writings in Tamil South India: A Bird’s Eye View in the very <i>Longue Durée</i>Peter C. Bisschop & Elizabeth A. Cecil. Primary Sources and Asian Pasts, De Gruyter, pp.152-183, 2021, 978-3-11-067407-1 |
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Multilingualism in Indian Inscriptions: With Special Reference to Inscriptions of the Tamil AreaGiovanni Ciotti & Erin McCann. Linguistics and Textual Aspects of Multilingualism in South India and Sri Lanka, Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient & Institut français de Pondichéry, pp.57-163, 2021, Indologie 147; NETamil Series 8, 978-2-85539-242-4 |
Meykkīrtti : éloges royaux épigraphiques en tamoulKouamé, Nathalie; Meyer, Éric P.; Viguier, Anne. Encyclopédie des historiographies : Afriques, Amériques, Asies : Volume 1 : sources et genres historiques (Tome 1 et Tome 2)., Presses de l’Inalco, pp.1201-1217, 2020, 9782858313457 |
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Stanzas on the <i>Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai<i>: What for?Eva Wilden & Suganya Anandakichenin. Colophons, Prefaces, Satellite Stanzas: Paratextual Elements and their Role in the Transmission of Indian Texts, 37, Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, pp.281-330, 2020, Indian and Tibetan Studies, 978-3-945151-09-9 |
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Pierres & inscriptionsRājamaṇḍala. Le modèle royal en Inde, Editions de l'EHESS, pp.51-80, 2020 |
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Showing the Way: The Metatextual Field of the <i>Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai</i>The Commentary Idioms of the Tamil Learned Traditions. Ed. by Suganya Anandakichenin & V. B. D'Avella, EFEO & IFP, pp.251-334, 2020, Indologie 141 / NETamil Series 5 |
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IntroductionRājamaṇḍala. Le modèle royal en Inde, Editions de l'EHESS, pp.9-25, 2020 |
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Une autre conception de la royauté: de deux dynasties hindoues du sud de l'IndeB. Dessein; C. Sturtewagen. International Conference Traditional Wisdom and Political Expression, Brussels, 29 January 2016, Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences & Belgian Institute of Higher Chinese Studies, pp.59-80, 2019 |
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Indian Copper-Plate Grants: Inscriptions or Documents?Alessandro Bausi; Christian Brockmann; Michael Friedrich; Sabine Kienitz. Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping, De Gruyter, pp.387-418, 2018, ⟨10.1515/9783110541397-014⟩ |
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The Other Way Round: From Print to ManuscriptVincenzo Vergiani; Daniele Cuneo; Camillo Alessio Formigatti. Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages: Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations, De Gruyter, pp.319-352, 2017, ⟨10.1515/9783110543100⟩ |
Appendix: The Foundation Inscription of the Rājasiṃheśvara. Edition by E. Francis. Translation by E. FrancisEmmanuel Francis; Schmid Charlotte. The Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti, Institut français de Pondichéry & École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp.194-203, 2016 |
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Forerunners of Cōḻa meykkīrttisT.S. Ravishankar; S. Swaminathan. Abhyudaya: Recent Researches in Epigraphy and Numismatics: Commemoration Volume in Honour of Dr. K.V. Ramesh, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, pp.27-42, 2016 |
Introduction: King and PlaceEmmanuel Francis; Schmid Charlotte. The Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti, Institut français de Pondichéry & École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp.1-32, 2016 |
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Found in Paratexts: Murukaṉ’s Places in Manuscripts of the TirumurukāṟṟuppaṭaiEmmanuel Francis; Schmid Charlotte. The Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti, Institut français de Pondichéry & École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp.495-532, 2016 |
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Introduction: Towards an Archaeology of BhaktiEmmanuel Francis; Charlotte Schmid. The Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth, Institut français de Pondichéry & École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp.1-29, 2014 |
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Royal and Local Bhakti under the PallavasValérie Gillet. Mapping the Chronology of Bhakti. Milestones, Stepping Stones, and Stumbling Stones. Proceedings of a Workshop held in Honour of Paṇḍit Varadadesikan, Institut français de Pondichéry & École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp.97-133, 2014 |
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“Woe to Them!”: The Śaiva Curse Inscription at Mahābalipuram (7th century CE)Emmanuel Francis; Charlotte Schmid. The Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth, Institut français de Pondichéry & École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp.176-223, 2014 |
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Praising the King in Tamil during the Pallava PeriodWhitney Cox; Vincenzo Vergiani. Bilingual Discourse and Cross-cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India, Institut français de Pondichéry & École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp.359-409, 2013 |
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Towards a New Edition of the Corpus of Pallava InscriptionsNina Mirnig; Péter-Dániel Szántó; Michael Williams. Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India, through Texts and Traditions. Contributions to Current Research in Indology. Volume 1: Proceedings of the International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (September 2009, Oxford), Oxbow Books, pp.123-149, 2013 |
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PrefaceBahour S. Kuppusamy; G. Vijayavenugopal. Pondicherry Inscriptions: Part II, Collection Indologie (83.2), Institut français de Pondichéry; École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp.v-xlvii, 2010 |
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Forerunners of Cōḻa meykkīrttis2011 |