La storia della conservazione degli atti notarili a Benevento tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna

This article examines the notarial profession by focusing on essential features such as the creation-investiture, the examination and matriculation, the organization of professional associations, as well as the development of the conservation of notarial documents from the depositories of individual notaries to organized public notarial archives. By focusing on the city of Benevento, pontifical enclave in the Kingdom of Naples, and by a comparison of sets of rules in the territories of the city's powerful neighbours, Rome and Naples, we seek to understand the political and institutional significance of these changes between the late Middle Ages and the modern period.