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Making Archives in Early Modern Europe - Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400-1700 (Hardcover)
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Making Archives in Early Modern Europe - Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400-1700 (Hardcover)
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European states were overwhelmed with information around 1500.
Their agents sought to organize their overflowing archives to
provide trustworthy evidence and comprehensive knowledge that was
useful in the everyday exercise of power. This detailed comparative
study explores cases from Lisbon to Vienna to Berlin in order to
understand how changing information technologies and ambitious
programs of state-building challenged record-keepers to find new
ways to organize and access the information in their archives. From
the intriguing details of how clerks invented new ways to index and
catalog the expanding world to the evolution of new perspectives on
knowledge and power among philologists and historians, this book
provides illuminating vignettes and revealing comparisons about a
core technology of governance in early modern Europe. Enhanced by
perspectives from the history of knowledge and from archival
science, this wide-ranging study explores the potential and the
limitations of knowledge management as media technologies evolved.
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