Manuscripts and Archives
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Edited by:
Alessandro Bausi
About this book
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 theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions.
The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).
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Prologue: Contemporary Practices of Archiving
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Dietmar Schenk Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Charles Ramble Publicly Available Download PDF |
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The Ancient World up to Late Antiquity
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Cécile Michel Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Fredrik Hagen and Daniel Soliman Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Jean-Luc Fournet Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Max Jakob Fölster Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Alberto Camplani Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Thomas Graumann Publicly Available Download PDF |
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The Middle Ages
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Mikael S. Adolphson Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Michael Grünbart Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Jürgen Paul Publicly Available Download PDF |
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From Writings to Registering Proof of a previous Action taken Christian Müller Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Emmanuel Francis Publicly Available Download PDF |
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Epilogue: Why and how to compare
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Markus Friedrich Publicly Available Download PDF |
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