Le Carte e la Storia, review of the Society for the studies of history of institutions, is a working and updating instrument dedicated to the historical-institutional historiography and its developments, with special focus to its relationship with the patrimony of sources. In the section “Topics and problems” (“Temi e problemi”) the review develops ample reflections on the history of institutions; in “Bibliographies” (“Bibliografie”), it presents medieval history’s and history of modern and contemporary institutions’ books and reviews, completed with “Files” (“Schede”) that review the extensive landscape of the most recent historical production. The section “Instruments” (“Strumenti”) offers analysis and recommendations of research instruments, in particular Internet sites that might be useful for historians of the institutions; the section “Reports and news” (“Cronache e notizie”) contains information about meetings, workshops, archival work groups, rearrangements of archives and publications of sources.In the section “The research” (“La ricerca”) original research contributions are published.
Editor in chief Guido Melis Scientific board Livio Antonielli, Sandro Bulgarelli, Mario Caravale, Paola Carucci, Madel Crasta, Piero Craveri, Francesco Di Donato, Marina Giannetto, Enrico Gustapane, Filippo Liotta, Luigi Londei, Luca Mannori, Aldo Mazzacane, Claudio Meoli, Marco Meriggi, Giuseppe Pansini, Vincenzo Pellegrini, Andrea Romano, Mario Serio, Francesca Sofia, Donato Tamblè, Giovanna Tosatti, Isabella Zanni Rosiello Editorial board Saverio Carpinelli, Antonella Meniconi (editors), Paolo Alvazzi del Frate, Francesco Bonini, Marco De Nicolò, Daniela Felisini, Alessio Gagliardi, Oscar Gaspari, Chiara Giorgi, Maurizio Griffo, Federico Lucarini, Daniela Manetti, Dora Marucco, Luisa Montevecchi, Francesco Soddu, Leonida Tedoldi, Fernando Venturini, Francesco Verrastro, Giovanni Zanfarino.
The journal is indexed by Articoli italiani di periodici accademici (AIDA), JournalSeek, Essper, Bibliografia storica nazionale, Catalogo italiano dei periodici (ACNP), Google Scholar.
The journal is rated "A", by the Italian academic research evaluation agency (Anvur), for the following scientific area: 14 b1 (Storia delle dottrine e delle istituzioni politiche).