Recent scholarship has redefined archives as sites of power, memory, and exclusion, with gender perspectives showing women as both subjects of the record and active agents. This paper examines women’s account books in Venetian family archives (16th–18th centuries), which reveal literacy, economic agency, and household management. Two case studies of heiresses who inherited family archives highlight how inheritance shaped women’s authority in record-keeping and transmission. These sources show women as both “archived” and creators of archival practices, offering a lens to rethink gender, archives, and power in early modern Europe.
Scrivere, fare di conto e custodire le scritture: donne e archivi familiari a Venezia tra XVI e XVIII secolo
Maria Adank
2025-01-01
Abstract
Recent scholarship has redefined archives as sites of power, memory, and exclusion, with gender perspectives showing women as both subjects of the record and active agents. This paper examines women’s account books in Venetian family archives (16th–18th centuries), which reveal literacy, economic agency, and household management. Two case studies of heiresses who inherited family archives highlight how inheritance shaped women’s authority in record-keeping and transmission. These sources show women as both “archived” and creators of archival practices, offering a lens to rethink gender, archives, and power in early modern Europe.
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