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A Ridiculous Science?
Genealogical Practices and Techniques in a Society without its own Nobility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Leonardo Broillet
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Editorial V
- Acknowledgements VII
- Table of Contents IX
- Genealogy and the History of Knowledge 1
- A Ridiculous Science? 23
- The Production and Application of Genealogical Knowledge in Elias Reusner’s Academic and Poetical Works 47
- How an Early Modern Genealogist got his Information 69
- Writing Genealogy in Wales, c.1475–c.1640: Sources and Practitioners 99
- Negotiating Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Germany 127
- The Production of Genealogical Knowledge and the Invention of Princely ‘Dynasties’ 145
- Family Input in the Making of a London Genealogical Directory in the Eighteenth Century 169
- The Genealogist at Work 199
- Genealogy and Heraldry as Means of Noble Self-Affirmation in Italy: the Case of the Cesi (c.1477–1630) 221
- The Production of Genealogical Knowledge for the Arrangement of Archives of Noble Families (Portugal, Fifteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries) 255
- Generation, Theft, and Dynasty in Eighteenth-Century Württemberg 291
- How to Disentangle Four Generations of Anthonii Matthaei – and Why 319
- Index 343
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Editorial V
- Acknowledgements VII
- Table of Contents IX
- Genealogy and the History of Knowledge 1
- A Ridiculous Science? 23
- The Production and Application of Genealogical Knowledge in Elias Reusner’s Academic and Poetical Works 47
- How an Early Modern Genealogist got his Information 69
- Writing Genealogy in Wales, c.1475–c.1640: Sources and Practitioners 99
- Negotiating Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Germany 127
- The Production of Genealogical Knowledge and the Invention of Princely ‘Dynasties’ 145
- Family Input in the Making of a London Genealogical Directory in the Eighteenth Century 169
- The Genealogist at Work 199
- Genealogy and Heraldry as Means of Noble Self-Affirmation in Italy: the Case of the Cesi (c.1477–1630) 221
- The Production of Genealogical Knowledge for the Arrangement of Archives of Noble Families (Portugal, Fifteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries) 255
- Generation, Theft, and Dynasty in Eighteenth-Century Württemberg 291
- How to Disentangle Four Generations of Anthonii Matthaei – and Why 319
- Index 343
