Archives & information in the early modern world

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2018 and ©2018

Subject:

Archives - History - Congresses
Archives - Europe - History - Congresses
Archival resources - Europe - History - Congresses
Europe - History - Sources - Congresses
Information organization - History - Congresses

Contributor:

Corens, Liesbeth, editor
Peters, Kate, editor
Walsham, Alexandra, editor
British Academy
Transforming Information: Record Keeping in the Early Modern World (Conference) (2014 : London, England)

ISBN:

9780197266250 and 0197266258

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy

Description:

xviii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes revised version of papers from a conference entitled "Transforming Information: Record Keeping in the Early Modern World" held at the British Academy in Apr. 2014, together with three additional essays

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Eric Ketelaar -- Alexandra Walsham, Kate Peters, & Liesbeth Corens -- Early modern European archivality: organised records, information, and state power, c. 1500 / Randolph C. Head -- Archival intelligence: diplomatic correspondence, information overload, and information management in Italy, 1450-1650 / Filippo De Vivo -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert, accounting, and the genesis of the state archive in early modern France / Jacob Soll -- The early modern secretary and the early modern archive / Arnold Hunt -- Knowledge, oblivion, and concealment in early modern Spain: the ambiguous agenda of the Archive of Simancas / Arndt Brendecke -- 'Friction in the archives': access and the politics of record-keeping in revolutionary England / Kate Peters -- The material culture of record-keeping in early modern England / Heather Wolfe & Peter Stallybrass -- Archiving the archive: scribal and material culture in 17th-century Zurich / Sundar Henny -- Truth and suffering in the Quaker Archives / Brooke Sylvia Palmieri -- Death, distance, and bureaucracy: an archival story / Sylvia Sellers-García -- The transnational archive of the sinosphere: the early modern East Asian information order / Kiri Paramore -- Ann Blair

Summary:

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

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

CD971 .A728 2018

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