Patrick Boucheron has been a professor at the Collège de France on the "History of Powers in Western Europe, 13^th-16^th century" chair since 2015. While his work focuses primarily on the urban history of medieval Italy, he is also interested in the writing and epistemology of history, attempting to re-articulate literature and the social sciences. He is involved in several projects, both editorial and audiovisual, which aim to defend the voice of a committed and scholarly discourse at the heart of the public uses of history.