The social history of the archive : record-keeping in early modern Europe

Folger bibliographic ID: 350985
Folger call number: CD1001 .S63 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499669
Accession Number: 269684

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction. The social history of the archive : record-keeping in early modern Europe / Alexandra Walsham -- Part 1. Creation, curation, and expertise. The rise of archival consciousness in provincial France : French feudal records and eighteenth-century seigneurial society / Markus Friedrich -- Roman notarial records between market and state / Laurie Nussdorfer -- The archive of orientalism and its keepers : re-imagining the histories of Arabic manuscripts in early modern Europe / John-Paul Ghobrial -- The clerk's tale : civic writing in sixteenth-century London / Jennifer Bishop -- Part 2. Credibility, testimony, and authenticity. Record-keeping and status performance in the early modern Low Countries / Frederik Buylaert and Jelle Haemers -- Early modern bookkeeping and life-writing revisited : accounting for Richard Stonley / Jason Scott-Warren -- Archives, eyewitnesses and rumours : writing about shrines in early modern France / Virginia Reinburg -- Recording miracles in Renaissance Italy / Mary Laven -- Part 3. Collecting, compiling, and controlling knowledge. Tales from the 'Yarmouth hutch' : civic identities and hidden histories in an urban archive / Andy Wood -- Archiving the present and chronicling for the future in early modern Europe / Judith Pollmann -- Common places and private spaces : libraries, record-keeping and orders of information in sixteenth century medicine / Hannah Murphy -- Dislocation and record-keeping : the counter archives of the Catholic diaspora / Liesbeth Corens -- Part 4. Memory, history, and oblivion. Recording the wars of religion : the 'drolleries of the league' from ephemeral print to scrapbook history / Tom Hamilton -- 'The accounts of the kingdom' : memory, community and the English Civil War / Ann Hughes -- Archiving and narration in post-Reformation Germany and the Netherlands / Jesse Spohnholz

Extended title: The social history of the archive : record-keeping in early modern Europe / edited by Liesbeth Corens, Kate Peters, and Alexandra Walsham

Archives Archival resources Europe

editor: Corens, Liesbeth
editor: Peters, Kate
editor: Walsham, Alexandra, 1966-
publisher: Oxford University Press