Margherita Trento

Maîtresse de conférences, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
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  • École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
  • Centre d'études sud asiatiques et himalayennes (CESAH)
  • Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP)
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Présentation

I am associate professor (maîtresse de conférences) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), sffiliated to the Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes - CESAH (formerly Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud - CEIAS) in Paris. Since September 2024, I am head of the Indology department at the Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP).

I received my PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in March 2020, with a dissertation on the social, cultural and literary history of Tamil Catholicism in the 17th and 18th centuries. I am currentlpy working on the social, political and intellectual history of a Tamil Śaiva siddhānta institution, the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam, in the 16th-18th centuries.

Publications

Publications

Missione, traduzione e livelli di cultura

Margherita Trento
I gesuiti oltre le frontiere. Una nuova storia della Compagnia di Gesù. Vol. 1, Il Leone Verde, 2024, 886580503X
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04901136 v1
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Translating the dharma of Shiva in sixteenth-century Chidambaram: Maṟaiñāṉa Campantar’s Civatarumōttaram

Margherita Trento
UniorPress. Śivadharmāmṛta: Essays on the Śivadharma and its Network, 2, 2021, Studies on the History of Śaivism, 978-88-6719-228-1
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03827485 v1

Śivadharma or Bonifacio? Behind the Scenes of the Madurai Mission Controversy (1608–1619)

Margherita Trento
The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World, Brill, pp.91-121, 2018, ⟨10.1163/9789004366299_006⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03948345 v1

From Jesuit Missionary to Tamil Pulavar: Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi SJ (1680-1747), the “Great Heroic Sage”

Sascha Ebeling , Margherita Trento
L’Inde et l’Italie : Rencontres intellectuelles, politiques et artistiques, Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, pp.53-89, 2018, 9782713231544. ⟨10.4000/books.editionsehess.23276⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03948843 v1

The theater of accommodation: Strategies for legitimizing the Christian message in Madurai (c. 1610)

Margherita Trento
The Acquaviva Project: Claudio Acquaviva's Generalate (1581—1615) and the Emergence of Modern Catholicism, Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2017, 099728238X
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03948862 v1

BOOK REVIEW: Muru, Cristina. 2022. The Linguistic and Historical Contribution of the Arte Tamulica by Baltasar da Costa, S.J. (c. 1610-1673). Annotated and commented Portuguese transcription and English translation from Portuguese and Tamil.

Margherita Trento
Histoire Epistémologie Langage, 2024, 46-2, pp.205-208. ⟨10.4000/12v6d⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04902574 v1

Martyre, témoignage et lignées sociales en pays tamoul (XVIIème-XVIIIème siécles)

Margherita Trento
Les Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales, 2023, 78 (1), pp.35-71. ⟨10.1017/ahss.2023.38⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04901126 v1

Martyre, témoignage et lignées sociales en pays tamoul (xviie-xviiie siècles)

Margherita Trento
Les Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales, 2023, 78 (1), pp.35-71. ⟨10.1017/ahss.2023.38⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04175633 v1

Book Review: Book Culture in Tamil: Essays in Memory of CreA Ramakrishnan

Margherita Trento
Oriental Archive - Archiv Orientalni­, 2022, 90 (3), pp.617-620. ⟨10.47979/aror.j.90.3.617-620⟩
Article dans une revue (compte-rendu de lecture) hal-03948380 v1

Book Review: Bloomer, Kristin. Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017

Margherita Trento
Journal of Religion, 2019, 99 (2), pp.228-229. ⟨10.1086/702013⟩
Article dans une revue (compte-rendu de lecture) hal-03949006 v1

Book Review: Noboru Karashima, A Concise History of South India: Issues and Interpretations

Margherita Trento
Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2017, 54 (2), pp.293-295. ⟨10.1177/0019464617697600⟩
Article dans une revue (compte-rendu de lecture) hal-03949016 v1

Donations to Śiva and his ascetics: the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam copper-plates (15-19th century)

Margherita Trento
Gift Protection in South and Southeast Asia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Sep 2024, Aubervillers, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04902576 v1

Challenges and methodologies involved in editing the Śataratnasaṅgraha with the Catamaṇimālai

Margherita Trento , M. Vinoth
Editing Śaiva Texts and Commentaries: Issues of Methodology and Interpretation, Institut Français de Pondichéry, Dec 2024, Pondichéry, India
Communication dans un congrès hal-04902582 v1

Fishing for pearls across the network of Tamil dictionaries &co. in the BnF: Navigating the divides between native and non-native, practical and poetical lexicography

Margherita Trento , Jean-Luc Chevillard
Text Surrounding Texts final workshop, Jun 2022, Hambourg, Germany
Communication dans un congrès hal-03949443 v1

Le Notre Père au pays tamoul (XVIe−XVIIIe siècles)

Margherita Trento
Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs, May 2022, Université Paris Cité, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-03949468 v1

Commercio di anime e di perle tra Roma e il golfo del Mannar (XVI secolo)

Margherita Trento
Horizons orientaux des savoirs romains sur la nature du monde, Nov 2021, Rome, Ecole Française de Rome, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-03949517 v1

A History of Sandeśa on Stage (and Its Aftermath): Sanskrit Padams from Eighteenth-century Thanjavur

Margherita Trento , Talia Ariav
Mapping the World through Courier Poetry, Mar 2021, Jerusalem (The Hebrew University), Israel
Communication dans un congrès hal-03949524 v1

Writing Christianity in Eighteenth-century Tamiḻakam

Margherita Trento
Invited lecture, Institute for the Dialogue of Culture and Religion (IDCR), Loyola College, Jul 2020, Chennai (India), India
Communication dans un congrès hal-03989166 v1

Missionaries in Malabar (18th century) : Imperial Connections and Dissimulation

Margherita Trento
Connecting Empires. Missionaries as Agents of Empires in the Early Modern Period, Oct 2020, Lorient, Université de Bretagne Sud, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-03949762 v1

Tamil folklore and Catholic devotion in the Tamil sermons of Giacomo Tommaso de’ Rossi SJ (1701-1774)

Margherita Trento
American Historical Association Conference, Jan 2019, Chicago, United States
Communication dans un congrès hal-03949823 v1

La poetica dell’accommodatio. Grammatica e poesia Tamil nelle opere del missionario gesuita Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747)

Margherita Trento
Invited lecture, May 2018, Rome Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy
Communication dans un congrès hal-03989173 v1

Catholic geography and Tamil landscape in Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi’s (1680-1747) Tēmpāvaṇi

Margherita Trento
Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oct 2018, Madison (Wisconsin), United States
Communication dans un congrès hal-03989200 v1

Christian Epic and Tamil Genres in the eighteenth century.

Margherita Trento
European Conference of South Asian Studies (ECSAS), European Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS); École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Jul 2018, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-03989221 v1

Tamil Poetry and Courtly Aspirations in the Life of Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi1 (1680-1747)

Margherita Trento
Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries), École française de Rome; Istituto svizzero di Roma; Deutsches Historisches Institut, May 2017, Rome, Italy
Communication dans un congrès hal-03989227 v1