Mirroring governance: archives,inventories and political knowledge in early modern Switzerland and Europe |
| |
| Authors: | Randolph C Head |
| |
| Institution: | (1) Department of History, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0204, USA |
| |
| Abstract: | The comparative study of archival inventories in early modern Switzerland reveals that three major regimes of inventorying
logic emerged from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth century. Early inventories constructed as lists gave way first
to ideal-topographical inventories that relied on a double mapping of conceptual spaces against archival space and inventory
pages, succeeded eventually by taxonomic inventories oriented around an active state apparatus and its needs. Synchronic and
diachronic comparisons that focus on major reorganizations have proven effective in illustrating the scope and effectiveness
of each of the successive regimes. A similar approach applied to major inventory projects across early modern Europe may identify
further systems for making accumulating documents accessible to rulers, and may also allow us to trace genealogies of inventory
practice regimes as they appeared in different regions, at different scales, and in diverse political contexts.
Randolph C. Head
has been a professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, since 1992, after studies at Harvard and the University
of Virginia. His areas of research include the political culture of early modern Europe, the history of democracy, and religious
coexistence before and after the Protestant Reformation. His current project on archival inventories in early modern Europe
grew out of his interest in the origins and articulation of political knowledge and institutional culture in early modern
Switzerland. |
| |
| Keywords: | Archival inventories Comparison of inventories Lucerne Switzerland Early modern Europe Political knowledge |
| 本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录！ |
|
