Output details
30 - History
Birkbeck College
Article title
Coeur de l’État, lieu de tension
Le tournant archivistique vu de Venise
(XVe-XVIIe siècle)*
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales
Article number
-
Volume number
3
Issue number
68
First page of article
699
ISSN of journal
0395-2649
Year of publication
2013
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
A recent historiographical trend focuses on archives as not only repositories of sources but as objects of institutional history. This article expands on this trend to show that archives were both tools of power and sites of economic, social and political conflict. Study of the Venetian chancery at a time of substantial changes shows that the rulers worried about the fragility of their archive and the reliability of its employees. The history of archives emerges as a promising field precisely because it can shed light on both the history of the state and the social context of political history.
