Clovis Maillet

Clovis Maillet is a historian and artist. He is the author of a thesis at EHESS on medieval hagiographic kinship, supervised by Jean-Claude Schmitt(La parenté hagiographique XIIIe-XVe s., 2014). A specialist in questions of gender and kinship in medieval visual and clerical culture, he is the author of two books on the subject: Les Genres Fluides, de Jeanne d’arc aux saintes trans (2020) and Un Moyen âge émancipateur co-authored with Thomas Golsenne (2021). Since the early 2000s, he has been working with Louis Hervé on performance, installation and film. His publications include Attraction Etrange (2012), Spectacles sans objet (2014) and L’Iguane (2017).

In search of Eugén-i-e de Rome, saint and trans “I’m going in search of a third-century Christian who was beheaded and buried in Rome’s underground catacombs. Her gender changed over the course of her life, as did her name. Her companions were eunuchs, a third gender that no longer exists today. From Rome, Croatia, Catalonia and Burgundy, Eugenie’s cult spread and was gradually forgotten. Perhaps because the gender fluidity characteristic of early Christianity coincided more and more poorly with the norms of a world now ruled by men of power rather than radicals, young girls refusing marriage, and trans people.”