Studies inspired by the so-called “archival turn” have strongly urged considering the archive a politically constructed cultural artefact: both monument and testimony of the state’s power in terms of the production of facts and taxonomy. It is no longer studied as a collection of documents, but rather as the result of a progressive construction of knowledge. These promptings accompanied the research regarding the archives of the prince-bishopric of Trento, which was secularized in 1803, and the material preserved in Trento today, deeply marred by the scattering of the first years of the Nineteenth century when the documents were moved to Innsbruck and Vienna, only to return at the End of the First World War. Among the documents that came to Trento, there was a collection, extrapolated from Section IV of the Ältere Grenzakten of the Statthalterei-Archiv of Innsbruck, of which this essay reconstructs the Twentieth-century transfers from Innsbruck, Trento, and Bolzano where the documents were also involved in the work of the “Ahnenerbe” Commission.
Archivalien zwischen Italien und Österreich. Auslieferungen, Rückgaben, Neuordnungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
K. Occhi
2021-01-01
Abstract
Studies inspired by the so-called “archival turn” have strongly urged considering the archive a politically constructed cultural artefact: both monument and testimony of the state’s power in terms of the production of facts and taxonomy. It is no longer studied as a collection of documents, but rather as the result of a progressive construction of knowledge. These promptings accompanied the research regarding the archives of the prince-bishopric of Trento, which was secularized in 1803, and the material preserved in Trento today, deeply marred by the scattering of the first years of the Nineteenth century when the documents were moved to Innsbruck and Vienna, only to return at the End of the First World War. Among the documents that came to Trento, there was a collection, extrapolated from Section IV of the Ältere Grenzakten of the Statthalterei-Archiv of Innsbruck, of which this essay reconstructs the Twentieth-century transfers from Innsbruck, Trento, and Bolzano where the documents were also involved in the work of the “Ahnenerbe” Commission.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
