Making archives in early modern Europe : proof, information and political record-keeping, 1400-1700 / Randolph C. Head.
European states were overwhelmed with information around 1500. Their agents sought to organize their overflowing archives to provide trustworthy evidence and comprehensive knowledge that was useful in the everyday exercise of power. This detailed comparative study explores cases from Lisbon to Vienn...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Records, tools and archives in Europe to 1700
- Archival history: Literature and outlook
- PART I: The Work of Records (1200- )
- Probative objects and Scholastic tools in the High Middle Ages
- A late medieval chancellery and its books: Lisbon, 1460-1560
- Keeping and organizing information from the Middle Ages to the 16th Century
- Information management in early modern Innsbruck, 1490-1530
- Part II: The Challenges of Accumulation (1400- )
- The accumulation of records and the evolution of inventories
- Early modern inventories: Habsburg Austria and Würzburg
- Classification: The architecture of knowledge and the placement of records
- The formal logic of classification: Topography and taxonomy in Swiss urban records, 1500-1700
- Part III: Comprehensive visions and differentiating practices (1550- )
- Evolving expectations about archives, 1540-1650
- Registries: Tracking the business of governance
- Part IV: Rethinking records and state archives (1550- )
- Understanding records: New perspectives and new readings after 1550
- New disciplines of authenticity and authority: Mabillon's diplomatics and the ius archivi
- Conclusion: The era of chancellery books and beyond.