Making Archives in Early Modern Europe : Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400-1700

Compares the archives of European states after 1500 to reveal changes in how records supported memory, authority and power.

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Head, Randolph C (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019
Schlagworte:Archives Archival resources Electronic books
Umfang:1 online resource (368 pages)
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:Compares the archives of European states after 1500 to reveal changes in how records supported memory, authority and power.
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Author's Note and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Records, Tools, and Archives in Europe to 1700 -- Records: Objects, Information, and Artificial Memory -- Some Tools and Terminology -- Information and Media -- Proof and Forensic Thinking in Europe -- Archival Terminology -- Archival Knowledge in Europe, 1400-1700 -- 2 Archival History: Literature and Outlook -- Introduction -- The Literatures of Archival History -- Early Scholarship by Historians -- Older Archivistics and Archival Science -- New Perspectives among Historians -- Archival Science after the 1980s -- Outlooks for the Future -- Making, Keeping, and Using - Especially Using -- Archives and Archivality: From European Paradigms to Global Comparison -- Archives and Historical Reflexivity: A Disciplinary Predicament -- Part I The Work of Records (1200-) -- 3 Probative Objects and Scholastic Tools in the High Middle Ages -- The Probative Imperative from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages -- Proof, Records, and Documents from the Roman Tradition to Late Medieval Practice -- Cartularies and Registers: Managing Records in Books in the High Middle Ages -- Chancellery Books and Scholastic Knowledge Tools -- Conclusion -- 4 A Late Medieval Chancellery and Its Books: Lisbon, 1460-1560 -- Introduction -- Reforming Record-Keeping in the 1460s: The New Chancelarias of Afonso V -- The Leitura Nova -- Finding Proofs in the Leitura Nova -- Conclusion -- 5 Keeping and Organizing Information from the Middle Ages to the Sixteenth Century -- Introduction -- Visitation and Inquisition in the Genealogy of Information Management -- Governance, Information and Documents in Late Medieval Chancelleries -- The Innsbruck Chancelleries from the High Middle Ages to the Sixteenth Century.
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (368 pages)
ISBN:9781316999134
1316999130
9781108473781
1108473784