Présentation

The subjects of these essays range from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, from Hungary to France, from a localized case taken at a precise moment to a national evolution covering three centuries. Their themes -- spanning the religious, political, economic and juridical -- are just as varied. What could they have in common? Principally, a collective approach, the approach of RHiSoP, a research group of the Centre de Recherches Historiques. A group where every researcher practices a situated history of society making that can enounce or leave unspoken, affirm or dispute, hierarchies, categories and boundaries – the structures.

Sommaire

• Isabelle Backouche, Fanny Cosandey, Christophe Duhamelle, Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux, Élie Haddad, Laurent Jolyet Mathieu Marraud : Borders, Thresholds, Boundaries: A Social History of Categorizations. Introduction

• Élie Haddad : Nobility of the Sword, Nobility of the Robe: Social Spaces and Ideological Borders

• Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux : Reconstructing the Catholic Church and Restituting the Power of the Sovereign: The Clergy in the Composite Monarchy of the Habsburgs during the Seventeenth Century

• Mathieu Marraud : Corporate Exercise and the Borders of Privilege: The Trades of Paris in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

• Laurent Joly : The boundary between “Judaism” and “Aryanism”: Anti-Semitic logic, litigation, and bureaucratic practices relating to the classification of “half-Jews” in Occupied France (1940-1944)

• Fanny Cosandey : What is the boundary between public and private? Some reflections, based on the royal domain

• Isabelle Backouche : Parisians write to the Administration: Interplay between social and spatial boundaries (1920-1945)

• Christophe Duhamelle : Confessions and boundaries in the Holy Roman Empire: The Brandenburg, Minden, and the Calendar in 1668