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Archives & information in the early modern world

Title
Archives & information in the early modern world / edited by Liesbeth Corens, Kate Peters, & Alexandra Walsham.
Publication
  • Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Corens, Liesbeth
  • Peters, Kate
  • Walsham, Alexandra, 1966-
  • British Academy.
  • Transforming Information: Record Keeping in the Early Modern World (Conference) (2014 : London, England)
Description
xviii, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
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.
Series Statement
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 212
Uniform Title
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 212.
Alternative Title
Archives and information in the early modern world
Subject
  • Archives > History > Congresses
  • Archives > Europe > History > Congresses
  • Archival resources > Europe > History > Congresses
  • Information organization > History > Congresses
  • Europe > History > Sources > Congresses
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Eric Ketelaar -- Introduction: Archives and information in the early modern world / Alexandra Walsham, Kate Peters, & Liesbeth Corens -- Part I: Organization and agency. 2. Early modern European archivality: organised records, information, and state power, c. 1500 / Randolph C. Head -- 3. Archival intelligence: diplomatic correspondence, information overload, and information management in Italy, 1450-1650 / Filippo De Vivo -- 4. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, accounting, and the genesis of the state archive in early modern France / Jacob Soll -- Part II: Access and secrecy. 5. The early modern secretary and the early modern archive / Arnold Hunt -- 6. Knowledge, oblivion, and concealment in early modern Spain: the ambiguous agenda of the Archive of Simancas / Arndt Brendecke -- 7. 'Friction in the archives': access and the politics of record-keeping in revolutionary England / Kate Peters -- Part III: Media and materiality. 8. The material culture of record-keeping in early modern England / Heather Wolfe & Peter Stallybrass -- 9. Archiving the archive: scribal and material culture in 17th-century Zurich / Sundar Henny -- Part IV: Documentation and distance. 10. Truth and suffering in the Quaker Archives / Brooke Sylvia Palmieri -- 11. Death, distance, and bureaucracy: an archival story / Sylvia Sellers-García -- 12. The transnational archive of the sinosphere: the early modern East Asian information order / Kiri Paramore -- Afterword / Ann Blair.
Call Number
JFE 18-6705
ISBN
  • 9780197266250
  • 0197266258
OCLC
1013739072
Title
Archives & information in the early modern world / edited by Liesbeth Corens, Kate Peters, & Alexandra Walsham.
Publisher
Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 212
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 212.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Corens, Liesbeth, editor.
Peters, Kate, editor.
Walsham, Alexandra, 1966- editor.
British Academy.
Transforming Information: Record Keeping in the Early Modern World (Conference) (2014 : London, England)
Spine Title
Archives and information in the early modern world
Research Call Number
JFE 18-6705
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