Genealogy and the History of Knowledge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editorial V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Table of Contents IX
5. Genealogy and the History of Knowledge 1
6. A Ridiculous Science? 23
7. The Production and Application of Genealogical Knowledge in Elias Reusner’s Academic and Poetical Works 47
8. How an Early Modern Genealogist got his Information 69
9. Writing Genealogy in Wales, c.1475–c.1640: Sources and Practitioners 99
10. Negotiating Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Germany 127
11. The Production of Genealogical Knowledge and the Invention of Princely ‘Dynasties’ 145
12. Family Input in the Making of a London Genealogical Directory in the Eighteenth Century 169
13. The Genealogist at Work 199
14. Genealogy and Heraldry as Means of Noble Self-Affirmation in Italy: the Case of the Cesi (c.1477–1630) 221
15. The Production of Genealogical Knowledge for the Arrangement of Archives of Noble Families (Portugal, Fifteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries) 255
16. Generation, Theft, and Dynasty in Eighteenth-Century Württemberg 291
17. How to Disentangle Four Generations of Anthonii Matthaei – and Why 319
18. Index 343