Andrew Kourris
1) Keeping Record: The Materiality of Rulership and Administration in Early China and Medieval Europe
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The production and retention of written records was a common and important facet of pre-modern rulership and administration. Much of our understanding of governmental practices and expressions of authority come from the contents of such documents, which have been well studied. Less studied, however, are the records themselves as artefacts. This volume is an attempt to redress this balance by taking a more holistic, material approach to a range of...