Manuscripts and Archives Comparative Views on Record-Keeping

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...

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Otros Autores: Bausi, Alessandro (Editor), Bausi, Alessandro, editor (editor), Brockmann, Christian, editor, Friedrich, Michael, editor, Kienitz, Sabine, editor
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Germany De Gruyter 2018
Berlin ; Boston : [2018]
Colección:Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue: Contemporary Practices of Archiving
  • How to Distinguish between Manuscripts and Archival Records: A Study in Archival Theory / Schenk, Dietmar
  • Archives from Tibet and the Himalayan Borderlands: Notes on Form and Content / Ramble, Charles
  • The Ancient World up to Late Antiquity
  • Constitution, Contents, Filing and Use of Private Archives: The Case of Old Assyrian Archives (nineteenth century BCE) / Michel, Cécile
  • Archives in Ancient Egypt, 2500-1000 BCE / Hagen, Fredrik / Soliman, Daniel
  • Archives and Libraries in Greco-Roman Egypt / Fournet, Jean-Luc
  • Libraries and Archives in the Former Han Dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE): Arguing for a Distinction / Fölster, Max Jakob
  • Setting a Bishopric / Arranging an Archive: Traces of Archival Activity in the Bishopric of Alexandria and Antioch / Camplani, Alberto
  • Documents, Acts and Archival Habits in Early Christian Church Councils: A Case Study / Graumann, Thomas
  • The Middle Ages
  • Weighing in on Evidence: Documents and Literary Manuscripts in Early Medieval Japan / Adolphson, Mikael S.
  • Securing and Preserving Written Documents in Byzantium / Grünbart, Michael
  • Archival Practices in the Muslim World prior to 1500 / Paul, Jürgen
  • The Power of the Pen: Cadis and their Archives / Müller, Christian
  • Indian Copper-Plate Grants: Inscriptions or Documents? / Francis, Emmanuel
  • Epilogue: Why and how to compare
  • Epilogue: Archives and Archiving across Cultures-Towards a Matrix of Analysis / Friedrich, Markus
  • List of Contributors
  • List of Documents