Archives and Information in the Early Modern World by Peters, Kate; Walsham, Alexandra; Corens, Liesbeth;

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This collection of essays explores the history of archives and record keeping across different polities and cultures in the early modern world. With ground-breaking research into the mechanics and personnel of early modern archives, the collection provides invaluable accounts of the history of keeping historical records.

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Investigating the relationship between archives and information in the early modern world, this latest collection of essays edited by Kate Peters, Alexandra Walsham, and Liesbeth Corens explores every aspect of record keeping; from the proliferation of physical documentation between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries to the implication of archives in patterns of statecraft.

Contributors to Archives and Information in the Early Modern World place paper technologies and physical repositories under the microscope, analysing the connections between documentation and geographical distance, probing the part played by record-keeping in administration, governance, and justice, as well as its links with trade, commerce, education, evangelism, and piety.

Extending beyond the framework of formal institutions to the family, household, and sect, Archives and Information in the Early Modern World offers fresh insight into the possibilities and constraints of political participation and the nature of human agency. It deepens our understanding of the role of archives in the construction and preservation of knowledge and the exercise of power in its broadest sense, calling for greater dialogue and creative collaboration to breach the lingering disciplinary divide between historians and archival scientists.

it should be on the reading list of every student interested in the history of archives. Taken together with similar developments in the history of paper, diplomatic letterwriting, the news, and court history, these contributions promise to turn a history of text-as-discourse into a social history of texts as intellectual, social, and material artifacts.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

• Foreword


• Archives and Information in the Early Modern World


• Organisation and Agency


• 1: Randolph C. Head: Early Modern European Archivality: Organised Records, Information, and State Power around 1500


• 2: Filippo de Vivo: Archival Intelligence: Diplomatic Correspondence, Information Overload, and Information Management in Italy, 1450-1650


• 3: Jacob Soll: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Accounting, and the Genesis of the State Archive in Early Modern France


• Access and Secrecy


• 4: Arnold Hunt: The Early Modern Secretary and the Early Modern Archive


• 5: Arndt Brendecke: Knowledge, Oblivion and Concealment in Early Modern Spain: The Ambiguous Agenda of the Archive of Simancas


• 6: Kate Peters: 'Friction in the Archives': Access and the Politics of Record-Keeping in Revolutionary England


• Media and Materiality


• 7: Heather Wolfe and Peter Stallybrass: The Material Culture of Record Keeping in Early Modern England


• 8: Sundar Henny: Archiving the Archive: Scribal and Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century Zurich


• Documentation and Distance


• 9: Brooke Palmieri: Truth and Suffering in the Quaker Archives


• 10: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia: Death, Distance, and Bureaucracy: An Archival Story


• 11: Kiri Paramore: A Transnational Archive of the Sinosphere: The Early Modern East Asian Information Order


• Afterword

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