Hilaire Puibusque OSB (1737-89) as Archivist and Correspondent of the Cabinet des Chartes
In the second half of the 1780s, more than thirty members of the Benedictine Congregation of Saint-Vanne and Saint-Hydulphe contributed to the project of the Cabinet des Chartes (led by director Jacob-Nicolas Moreau) to assemble a massive collection of copied charters pertaining to the medieval hist...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2023
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Revue bénédictine
Year: 2023, Volume: 133, Issue: 1, Pages: 196-220 |
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Puibusque, Hilaire 1737-1789
/ Moreau, Jacob Nicolas 1717-1804
/ France, Cabinet des chartes
/ Kloster Bouxières-aux-Dames
/ Archive
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBG France KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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| Summary: | In the second half of the 1780s, more than thirty members of the Benedictine Congregation of Saint-Vanne and Saint-Hydulphe contributed to the project of the Cabinet des Chartes (led by director Jacob-Nicolas Moreau) to assemble a massive collection of copied charters pertaining to the medieval history of France. While their charter transcriptions remain an invaluable resource for historians, their preserved correspondence with the Cabinet's staff is similarly invaluable because it sheds light on the mechanics of their work for that institution. Previous studies have considered these letters strictly from a top-down perspective, with a view on detailing the obstacles faced by Moreau in trying to give the Cabinet's project a second wind. In contrast there has been little interest in looking at the Cabinet's letter collection and other relevant documentation from a bottom-up, or biographical perspective, despite the fact that this would help us understand how the nature and scope of their work for the Cabinet was informed by their other activities and their personal situation. In order to illustrate the relevance of this biographical perspective, this paper takes the case of Nicolas-Hilaire (de) Puibusque (1737-89), whose work as an archivist (and, arguably, a historiographer) at Bouxières abbey shaped both his relationship with Moreau and the selection of documents he submitted to the Cabinet. Evidence from the mid-to-later 1780s also reveals that Puibusque had a great deal more to gain, financially but arguably also intellectually, from his collaboration with local patrons in the Lorraine area than from his distant and increasingly fraught relationship with the Cabinet staff. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9009 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue bénédictine
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.RB.5.134526 |