Keeping Record
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Edited by:
Abigail S. Armstrong
About this book
This volume is an attempt to redress this balance by taking a more holistic, material approach to a range of written records. Through a series of case studies, this volume explores questions regarding the material characteristics of various records and their use. It demonstrates that the material features of the records, including the size and shape, the hands that wrote them and the material substrate, can shed new light on the functioning of government and the declarations of power these records asserted.
The ten contributions of this volume focus on records from a variety of rulers, political systems and administrations. With four case studies from early China and six from medieval Europe, this volume offers transcultural perspectives to demonstrate how different cultures expressed rulership and administration materially through the use of text-bearing artefacts.
Author / Editor information
Abigail S. Armstrong, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Matthias J. Kuhn, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Jörg Peltzer, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Chun Fung Tong, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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A Material Approach to Written Artefacts of Rulership and Administration: An Introduction
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The Charter Scribes of King Henry III. A Palaeographical Investigation of English Royal Charter Engrossments and Enrolments, 1259–1265
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The Scribe and the Witnesses: The Drafting of Witness Lists in the Charters of the Counts of Flanders (1071–1191)
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To Write or to Seal? New Evidence on Literacy Practices in Early Imperial China
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Handwriting in the Official Documents from Liye and Bureaucratic Politics in the Qin Empire
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Between Slip and Tablet. Rulership and Writing Support in Eastern Han China, 25–220 CE
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Record-Keeping on the Estates of the Earls of Northumberland. Drafts, Templates and Innovation?
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Layouting Authority. Graphic Reflections of Power Relationships in Early Chinese Administrative Documents
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Enrolling Lines of Power: Yorkist Pedigree Rolls as Material Evidence of Kingship
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The Cartulary as a Visual Representation of Rulership. King Henry IV of England (1399–1413) and the Great Cowcher (London, TNA, DL 42/1−2)
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The Power of Bookkeeping in Late Medieval Friedberg and Gelnhausen
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Notes on Contributors
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Indices
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