LANDAIS BENJAMIN

Structure(s)

Component and department

CER History
UFR Humanities and Social Sciences

Research topics

History of Central and Balkan Europe, Habsburg Monarchy, rural history, history of cartography, ethnicity, administrative practices and knowledge

Biography

Benjamin Landais is a former student at the École Normale Supérieure and holds an agrégation in history. His dissertation, defended in Strasbourg in 2013, focused on the relationship between ethnicity and privilege in a rural society in south-eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, before the emergence of nationalism. He has been a lecturer in modern history at the University of Avignon since 2014 and head of the History Teaching and Research Centre since 2024. A specialist in the Habsburg monarchy, his current research focuses on peasant societies, administrative knowledge, migration and the history of cartography. He is currently involved in a collaborative study of land maps produced before the State geometric cadastres, linked to a research project on cartographic literacy in Ancien Régime Europe.

Publications

• Works
• with Annie Antoine (ed.), Cartographier le parcellaire rural dans l'Europe d'Ancien Régime, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024, 526 p.
• Nations, privileges and ethnicity: the Habsburg Banat, a political laboratory on the edge of enlightened EuropeStrasbourg, Association Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023, 580 p.
• Governing the Habsburg Banat in the mid-18th century^e century : éCritical edition of the correspondence between François Perlas, President of Banat, and Charles-Ferdinand Königsegg-Erps, President of the Aulic Chamber (1754-1756)Brăila, Istros, 2020, 315 p.
• Articles in peer-reviewed journals
• "The diaspora in the village: seigneurial colonisation and socio-spatial segregation in 18th century Hungary^e century", Diaspora(s), 2023, p. 73-77.
• "Marginalists, rebels or seasonal plunderers? Bandits on the Austro-Ottoman border in the 18th century.^e century", Banaticavol. 31/2, 2021, p. 221-249.
• "The linearization of the Austro-Ottoman border in the 18th century^e century: the map and the territory", Source(s)vol. 17, 2020, p. 75-97.
• "Discovery and administrative uses of the zadruga in the south of the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th century.^e century", Journal of Slavonic Studiesvol. 91/3, 2020, p. 277-291.
• "Recording ethnicity in the eighteenth century^e century: the identification of Ottoman migrants on the Habsburg frontier", Journal of Modern and Contemporary Historyvol. 66/4, 2019, p. 89-120.
• "Du partage commun de la terre au lopin familial : Vie politique au village et réforme cadastrale dans les marges balkaniques de la monarchie des Habsbourg au XVIII^e century", Rural History and Societies, n° 37/1, 2012, p. 43-116.
• "Village politics and the use of 'nation' in the Banat of Temesvár in the 18^th century", Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert und Österreichvol. 25, 2011, p. 195-208.
• "Relaying the economic management of the state in a frontier area: a turning point in the mobilisation of commercial and financial networks in the Temesvár Banat of the 1760s and 1770s", Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert und Österreichvol. 24, 2010, p. 207-230.
• Chapters in collective works
• "Proto- or para-cadastral practices? Cartographies et arpentages seigneuriaux en Hongrie 1750-1790", in Concepción Camarero Bullón, Ángel Ignacio Aguilar Cuesta, Mario Corral Ribera (eds.) Fuentes geohistóricas, nuevas tecnologías, nuevos retosEditorial Universidad de Cantabria: Santander, 2024, p. 245-258.
• "Introduction" (with Annie Antoine), in Antoine, Annie and Landais, Benjamin (eds.), Mapping rural land parcels in Ancien Régime EuropePresses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023, p. 7-28.
• "Des plans pour fixer le parcellaire : cartographie seigneuriale et planification agraire dans le Banat du xviii^e siècle", in Ibid., 2023, p. 399-427.
• "Langues de gouvernement et gouvernement des langues: l'allemand face aux langues 'nationales' dans les confins orientaux de la monarchie habsbourgeoise au xviiie siècle", in Delle Donne, Fulvio and Grévin Benoît (eds.), Il re e le sue lingue: Comunicazione e imperialità/The king and his languages: Communication and imperialismPotenza: Basilicata University Press, 2023, p. 147-174.
• "Historical introduction: Vojvodina under Habsburg administration (1690-1918)", in Royer Clara, Chmurski Mateusz and Gelez Philippe (eds.), Literature and multiculturalism in Vojvodinapublished by Eur-Orbem, 2021, p. 15-45.
• "Comment gouverner les 'nations' ? Conceptions et pratiques politiques aux marges orientales de la monarchie habsbourgeoise à l'époque moderne", in Lignereux Yves & alii (dir.), Ethno-geopolitics of empires. From Antiquity to the Contemporary WorldRennes: PUR, 2021, p. 125-147.
• "From micropolitics to corruption: Joseph II and the ideal of the police state in Banat", in Marton Silvia, Monier Frédéric and Dard Olivier (dir.), Morality of power and corruption in France and Romania XVIII^e-XX^e centuryParis: Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, 2017, p. 37-49.
• "The emergence of territorial claims in the national assertion of Serbian communities in the Tisza valley: the case of the privileged district of Kikinda in the 1770s", in Hoffmann-Schickel Karen and Navet Éric (eds.), Cultural resistance and territorial claims by indigenous peoples: Proceedings of the study day at the University of StrasbourgSaint-Denis: Éditions Connaissances et Savoirs, 2015, p. 51-89.
• "Villages, Actors of Local Cartography? The Cadastral Maps of the Banat (1772-79)", in Liebenberg Elri, Collier Peter and Török Zsolt Gyözö (eds.), History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA2012, Heidelberg/Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2014, p. 129-148.
• "Habsburg's State and power of the orthodox 'local elite' on the borders of the Ottoman Empire: The case of the Banat of Temesvár (1750-1780)", in Heppner Harald and Posch Eva (eds.), Encounters in Europe' Southeast: The Habsburg Empire and the Orthodox World in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries, 2012, p. 109-120.
• "Knowledge and production of local engineer-mappers in southern Hungary: central issues in the evolution of peasant society 1767-1805", in Lebeau Christine and Schmale Wolfgang (eds.), Images in capitals: Vienna, late 17th century^e-Early 19th century^e centuriesVienna: Dr Winkler Verlag, 2011, p. 133-149.
• Other papers
• "A bánsági falvak földterületének felparcellázása és térképézése (1773-1848). Úttörő kísérlet Magyarországon", Catastrum, 2024/3, p. 3-16.
• Preface to Vultur Smaranda, Memories and lives: the identity journey of the French from BanatAvignon, Editions Universitaires d'Avignon, 2021, p. 9-18.
• "A request for the expulsion of the Jewish community of Timişoara (January 1768)", Alarm magazine, on line since 18 January 2021, https://revue.alarmer.org/une-demande-dexpulsion-de-la-communaute-juive-de-timisoara-janvier-1768/
• "Land-Plot Mapping and the Construction of an Ethnic Patchwork in the Banat (1773-1848)", Catastrum, 2019/4, p. 3-16.
• "Being French in 18th century Banat^e century", Vaucluse StudiesNr. 84, 2019, p. 45-57.