Naples, 1610 : comment peut-on être officier ? - article ; n°2 ; vol.52, pg 265-291

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales - Année 1997 - Volume 52 - Numéro 2 - Pages 265-291
Naples, 1610 : How may One be an Officer ? PEYTAVIN. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Neapolitans are subjects of the King of Spain. The project of suppressing tribunal (the Zecca) revealed most things about the world of the office : it obeys the imperatives of economic factors, its boundaries are blurry, and there are many ways to transgress them : some remain at its borders, while others are outside entirely; it has much to do with the rules of feudal society; the channels that provide the financial transactions to sustain this system are identifiable; this is not site of enrichment, but rather one of gift and counter-gift; it is source of income; it is, in the end, multifaceted reality. The traditional oppositions : office-notability, office-feudalism, should be reconsidered in light of the behaviors adopted, the language utilized and the strategies developed at the moment of access to the office. The social history of institutions requires the examination of the office, an Ancien Régime institution if ever there was one. The office shows itself as much more than the support system that evolved to sustain venality . There remains much for us to learn about the functioning of societies in the modern era.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.