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Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
It was not just in the major trade centers but also in the expanse of the "Hinterland" that the foreign and the exotic made themselves felt in the age of Enlightenment - be it in the form of missionaries from China, galley slaves from North Africa, or "Turks" from the Ottoman Empire. These essays take a systematic approach to ask how knowledge from the wider world made its way to the villages and supposed peripheries of Europe.
Nicht nur in den großen...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Situating the history of genealogy in the ambit of manuscript studies, this volume explores how handwriting practices influenced the development of genealogies. It shows how lineages used handwritten documents in constructing and presenting their identity both to the outside world and to themselves. Genealogical handwriting is practiced in many manuscript cultures; this volume is the first to juxtapose studies from a wide variety of such cultures,...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Genealogisches Wissen war in der Vormoderne eine wichtige Ressource. Adlige und bürgerliche Akteur:innen benötigten es im Ringen um Rang und Ämter, Gelehrte nutzten es für die Geschichtsschreibung. Zahlreiche Zeitgenossen bemühten sich, dieses Wissen zu gewinnen, zu präsentieren oder zurückzuweisen. Der Band untersucht den Umgang diverser Akteursgruppen mit genealogischem Wissen und fragt nach dessen Konstruktion, Darstellung und Rezeption....
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
2 Volumes
Description
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of 'manuscripts' to the larger perspective of 'written artefacts'.