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Making archives in early modern Europe : proof, information and political record-keeping, 1400-1700 / Randolph C. Head.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Head, Randolph C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archives--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Archives.
- Archives--Europe--History--16th century.
- Archives--Europe--History--17th century.
- Archival resources--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Archival resources.
- Archival resources--Europe--History--16th century.
- Archival resources--Europe--History--17th century.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 348 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781108620659
- 1108620655
- Publisher Number:
- 99987450411
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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