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XXXVI-1 | 2021
Varia

198 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2883-4

The articles in this issue illustrate the role of quantification in historical research, with just one of the six contributions focusing on the history of measurement per se. Their geographical scope is broad, with four articles covering countries or regions outside France. Exploring a rich corpus of Florentine archives, C. Maitte explores the historiography of wages paid to highly skilled workers in the modern era, revealing the complex hierarchy of wage scales and highlighting the importance of including working hours in calculations. P. Castéjon uses prosopographical resources to study the transformation of the cursus honorum of magistrates appointed to late Spanish imperial institutions, and the importance attached to knowledge of overseas affairs. In the service of both history and urban archaeology, C. Ducourthial and H.  Tronchère-Cottet take up the challenge of identifying an old topographical landmark, making it possible to enter old maps of Lyon into a GIS. P.-Y. Lacour examines the way in which scientific instruments and precision clocks were evaluated at French industrial exhibitions. Using lexicometric techniques to analyse the writings of a French diplomat in office in Tunis, J. Hammami reveals the underlying colonial discourse. Last, P. Le  Roux provides historians with an interpretation of ethnographic records in southern Thailand that show evidence of a measurement system specific to southern Asia and that predates Indian, Chinese or western influence.

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