Manuscripts and Archives : Comparative Views on Record-Keeping / Alessandro Bausi, Christian Brockmann, Michael Friedrich, Sabine Kienitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bausi, Alessandro, Editor.

Contributor:

Bausi, Alessandro, editor.

Brockmann, Christian, editor.

Friedrich, Michael, editor.

Kienitz, Sabine, editor.

Series:

Studies in Manuscript Cultures

Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; 11

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany De Gruyter 2018

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

English.

Biography/History:

A. Bausi, C. Brockmann, M. Friedrich, and S. Kienitz, University of Hamburg.

Summary:

Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Prologue: Contemporary Practices of Archiving

How to Distinguish between Manuscripts and Archival Records: A Study in Archival Theory / Schenk, Dietmar

Archives from Tibet and the Himalayan Borderlands: Notes on Form and Content / Ramble, Charles

The Ancient World up to Late Antiquity

Constitution, Contents, Filing and Use of Private Archives: The Case of Old Assyrian Archives (nineteenth century BCE) / Michel, Cécile

Archives in Ancient Egypt, 2500-1000 BCE / Hagen, Fredrik / Soliman, Daniel

Archives and Libraries in Greco-Roman Egypt / Fournet, Jean-Luc

Libraries and Archives in the Former Han Dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE): Arguing for a Distinction / Fölster, Max Jakob

Setting a Bishopric / Arranging an Archive: Traces of Archival Activity in the Bishopric of Alexandria and Antioch / Camplani, Alberto

Documents, Acts and Archival Habits in Early Christian Church Councils: A Case Study / Graumann, Thomas

The Middle Ages

Weighing in on Evidence: Documents and Literary Manuscripts in Early Medieval Japan / Adolphson, Mikael S.

Securing and Preserving Written Documents in Byzantium / Grünbart, Michael

Archival Practices in the Muslim World prior to 1500 / Paul, Jürgen

The Power of the Pen: Cadis and their Archives / Müller, Christian

Indian Copper-Plate Grants: Inscriptions or Documents? / Francis, Emmanuel

Epilogue: Why and how to compare

Epilogue: Archives and Archiving across Cultures-Towards a Matrix of Analysis / Friedrich, Markus

List of Contributors

List of Documents

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110541571

3110541572

9783110541397

3110541394

OCLC:

1024050312