The birth of the archive : a history of knowledge /
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| Author / Creator: | Friedrich, Markus, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Geburt des Archivs. English |
| Imprint: | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018] |
| Description: | ix, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11464301 |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- 1. Stories and Histories of Archives: An Introduction
- Archives as Places of Knowledge
- Stories and Histories of Archives: In Praise of Praxis
- Research Traditions
- The "Archival Turn" in Cultural Studies
- Why the Early Modern Period? Epochs of Archival History
- About This Book
- 2. Documents: Filling Archives-A Prologue
- The Origins of a Pragmatic Literacy
- Preserving Documents with Cartularies and Registers
- Franz Pehem in Altenburg, or: Pragmatic Literacy at the Dawn of the Early Modern Period
- 3. Founding: Archives Become Institutions and Spread
- Early Princely Archives in France and Germany
- Archives Everywhere: Quantitative and Geographic Expansion
- Archives for Everyone: Corporations, Churches, Noblemen
- Territorial Archival Policy between Center and Periphery
- After Founding
- Institutionalized Unusability: Joly de Fleury and Le Nain in the Archive of the Parlement of Paris
- 4. Projections: Archives in Early Modern Thought
- Talking about Archives: Texts and Contexts
- Purposes of Archives: Remembrance and Stabilization across Social Orders
- Useless and Disorienting, Surprising and Unmanageable Archives
- Early Modern Sketches of European Archival History
- Oral and Written Archives in Europe and Abroad
- Semantics and Metaphors: From Archive to "Archive"
- 5. People: Archives and Those Who Used Them
- Archivists
- The Illegible Archive: Practical Challenges
- Are Archivists Scholars?
- "Keep Calm!" Everyday Life in the Archives and the Archivists' Persona
- Visitors and Visits
- Private and Public Documents: Papers and Archives as Private Property
- Radical Personalizations: Theft and the Helplessness of Archives
- 6. Places: Archives as Spatial Structures and Documents as Movable Objects
- Archive Rooms: Protective Shells for Fragile Contents
- The Well-Ordered Archive as a Spatial Ideal
- Suites and Surroundings: Archives as Parts of Buildings
- The Creation of Order in Space: Archive Furniture
- A "Ship Full of Documents," or: The Mobility of Early Modern Archives
- 7. Power(lessness): Archives as Resources, Symbols, and Objects of Power
- Princes' Rights, or: Archives of Royal Laws
- Subjects' Obligations, or: Archives and Feudal Prerogatives
- What to Do? or: Archives in Decision-Making Processes
- Expert Reports, or: The Processed Archive
- Partitioning and Regime Change: Archives between Pragmatism and Symbolism
- Archives in War and Peace
- 8. Sources: Archives in Historiography and Genealogy
- Before Historicism
- Why Archival Research?
- Fear of Historians: History between Politics and Scholarship
- Secrecy as Project and Projection: The Possibilities and Limitations of Scholarly Archive Access
- Controlling Archival Work: Research Opportunities and Limitations
- Working in the Archives
- Archival Trips and Transregional Collaboration
- Aristocrats, Archives, Ancestors: Genealogy as a Scholarly Practice
- Talking about Archival Work, or: The Archive as a Historiographical Narrative Topos
- Epilogue: The Premodern and Modern Archive
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
