Participant Info
- First Name
- Antonia
- Last Name
- Perna
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- a.perna.research@outlook.com
- Affiliation
- Durham University
- Website URL
- https://www.dur.ac.uk/directory/profile/?id=15975
- Keywords
- French Revolution, Napoleonic Empire, history of childhood, cultural history, children's literature, education
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Antonia Perna a historian of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire, with a particular focus on childhood. She is interested in the politicisation of the eighteenth-century model of childhood innocence, in terms of both representations and experiences of children, in France and Italy in this period. More recently, her work concerns the transmission of political culture in this period, and especially how ideas were transferred internationally and packaged for children beyond French borders along with revolutionary and Napoleonic expansion across Europe.
Antonia is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of History at Durham University. She has previously lectured at Durham and held research fellowships at the British School at Rome, the John Rylands Research Institute and the Newberry Library.
- Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Perna, A., ‘Les Discours publics du jeune Charles Nodier et de ses pairs bisontins : une étude de l’agentivité enfantine dans la vie civique pendant la Révolution française, 1790–94’, Histoire de l’éducation, in press.
Perna, A., ‘Bara and Viala, or Virtue Rewarded: the memorialization of two child martyrs of the French Revolution’, French History, 35:2 (2021), pp. 192–218. [https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/craa071.]
Magazine Articles
Perna, A., ‘Hope of the Nation: celebrating schoolboys’ achievements to end the French Revolution’, Symeon, 11 (2021), pp. 30–33. [https://www.durham.ac.uk/media/durham-university/departments-/history/DU-History—Symeon-11-2021.pdf]
Digital publications
Perna, A., ‘Patriotic Giving and Republican Girlhood in Revolutionary France: the public speeches of twelve-year-old Joséphine Fontanier, 1793–94’, H-France Salon (2020), 12:8, #49.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @AntoniaPerna
- Country Focus
- France; Italy
- Expertise by Geography
- France, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Children & Youth, Pedagogy, Rebellion & Revolution
