Archiv für Juni 2016

The ship, the media, and the world: conceptualizing connections in global history

Research Articles Roland Wenzlhuemer, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 02, pp 163-186Abstract

Editorial – being in transit: ships and global incompatibilities

Editorial Martin Dusinberre, Roland Wenzlhuemer, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 02, pp 155-162Abstract

Being an Archivist in Provincial Enlightened France: The Case of Pierre Camille Le Moine (1723-1800)

This article focuses on Pierre Camille Le Moine (1723–1800), an archivist and the author of the first printed French monograph entirely devoted to archives and archival management and description, the influential Diplomatique pratique (1765). Th…

Monastic Records and the Dissolution: A Tudor Revolution in the Archives?

Administrative reform in the 1530s amounted, in Professor Geoffrey Elton’s words, to a ‘Tudor revolution in government’. The Dissolution of the monasteries and the confiscation of their assets played a major part in this. The need to…

Archives of Speech: Recording Diplomatic Negotiation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Early modern diplomatic negotiation was conducted primarily through face-to-face encounters dominated by the oral medium, generally known as audiences. Yet ambassadors were very keen to take written records of the words spoken by themselves and their …

The Florentine Archives in Transition: Government, Warfare and Communication (1289-1530 ca.)

A turning point in European administrative and documentary practices was traditionally associated, most famously by Robert-Henri Bautier, with the monarchies of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. By summarizing previous research in th…

Archival Transformations in Early Modern European History

Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/46/3/421?rss=1

Archives of the Mediterranean: Governance and Record-Keeping in the Crown of Aragon in the Long Fifteenth Century

From the late medieval period the Crown of Aragon was at the forefront of archival innovation. Culminating in the establishment of the Royal Archive of Barcelona in 1318, this development was not, as is traditionally stated, a mere imitation of extern…

Configuring European Archives: Spaces, Materials and Practices in the Differentiation of Repositories from the Late Middle Ages to 1700

While recordkeeping and record-using were important in Classical societies and early medieval Europe, rapid evolution and change characterized recordkeeping practices from the late Middle Ages throughout the early modern period. This paper recasts cha…

The New Culture of Archives in Early Modern Spain

What sort of progress took place in the archives of Spain from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century? This is the question which this article seeks to answer by reflecting on the nomenclature assigned to various repositories of documenta…