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Frequent since the 16th century in several regions, produced in quantity throughout Europe in the 18th century, land-plots mapping didn’t wait for the Napoleonic cadastre to conquer the continent. They were already numerous in colonial America, but also in Japan during the Edo period and during the Qing Empire in China. Despite their richness, these sources are still considered as secondary documents, dependent on a written corpus which could provide, alone, the legitimate subject of a historical study. Nevertheless the identification, digitization and online publishing of old maps have accelerated and keep busy archivists, curators, archaeologists and researchers. But the same can’t be said of their historical analysis, despite the work done by rural historians and historians of cartography. Many questions only find answers at the local or national level, while they concern processes that are visible on a continental or even global scale. In addition to the fragmentation of academic traditions, the main difficulty for historians is to consider sources rooted in a variety of social, economic and political systems in the Early modern period and often cut off from their documentary context by the own logic of collecting and conserving archival documents. We wish to overcome these obstacles by engaging in a comparison of the logic of production and the social uses of these maps in the Early modern period. The expression ‘rural land-plots mapping’ refers to any type of graphical representation of plots of land with the same crop and belonging to the same owner, in a socio-legal context where there is a superposition and a diversity of property rights. It excepts a priori urban plans, but also general cadastres established by states in the 19th century.
This conference will bring together researchers with a thorough knowledge of a large corpus of maps. The purpose of the conference is the preparation of a synthetic publication on the subject – which won’t be limited to the proceedings of the conference. The main criteria for the selection of the papers will be the novelty and the richness of the proposed approaches, as well as the diversity of the geographical origins of the studied corpora, in order to cover the widest space possible. Abstracts of paper proposals must be sent by e-mail to the two organizers (maximum 3,500 characters), as well as a brief CV, before June 6, 2018. The languages of the conference are French and English.
(annie.antoine@univ-rennes2.fr benjamin.landais@univ-avignon.fr)
Papers by Annie Antoine
Frequent since the 16th century in several regions, produced in quantity throughout Europe in the 18th century, land-plots mapping didn’t wait for the Napoleonic cadastre to conquer the continent. They were already numerous in colonial America, but also in Japan during the Edo period and during the Qing Empire in China. Despite their richness, these sources are still considered as secondary documents, dependent on a written corpus which could provide, alone, the legitimate subject of a historical study. Nevertheless the identification, digitization and online publishing of old maps have accelerated and keep busy archivists, curators, archaeologists and researchers. But the same can’t be said of their historical analysis, despite the work done by rural historians and historians of cartography. Many questions only find answers at the local or national level, while they concern processes that are visible on a continental or even global scale. In addition to the fragmentation of academic traditions, the main difficulty for historians is to consider sources rooted in a variety of social, economic and political systems in the Early modern period and often cut off from their documentary context by the own logic of collecting and conserving archival documents. We wish to overcome these obstacles by engaging in a comparison of the logic of production and the social uses of these maps in the Early modern period. The expression ‘rural land-plots mapping’ refers to any type of graphical representation of plots of land with the same crop and belonging to the same owner, in a socio-legal context where there is a superposition and a diversity of property rights. It excepts a priori urban plans, but also general cadastres established by states in the 19th century.
This conference will bring together researchers with a thorough knowledge of a large corpus of maps. The purpose of the conference is the preparation of a synthetic publication on the subject – which won’t be limited to the proceedings of the conference. The main criteria for the selection of the papers will be the novelty and the richness of the proposed approaches, as well as the diversity of the geographical origins of the studied corpora, in order to cover the widest space possible. Abstracts of paper proposals must be sent by e-mail to the two organizers (maximum 3,500 characters), as well as a brief CV, before June 6, 2018. The languages of the conference are French and English.
(annie.antoine@univ-rennes2.fr benjamin.landais@univ-avignon.fr)