Genealogical Knowledge in the Making
Tools, Practices, and Evidence in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2019
X, 350 pages
978-3-11-059351-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines how genealogical knowledge was produced in Early Modern Europe. It studies the procedures and difficulties of genealogical research and highlights the many challenges that had to be overcome in the process of establishing family histories. Archives had to be visited, stone inscriptions had to be deciphered, and countless individuals had to be identified. The papers demonstrate that none of these tasks were simple and that the results of the research efforts often remained ambivalent. How early modern genealogists went about studying these questions is investigated here in a comparative perspective that includes cases from Germany, Italy, France, Wales, and beyond.
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Tools, Practices, and Evidence in Early Modern Europe
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Persons
Jost Eickmeyer
, Freie Univerität Berlin;
Markus Friedrich
, Universität Hamburg,
Volker Bauer
, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.
Content
- Intro
- Editorial
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Genealogy and the History of Knowledge
- A Ridiculous Science?
- The Production and Application of Genealogical Knowledge in Elias Reusner's Academic and Poetical Works
- How an Early Modern Genealogist got his Information
- Writing Genealogy in Wales, c.1475-c.1640: Sources and Practitioners
- Negotiating Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Germany
- The Production of Genealogical Knowledge and the Invention of Princely 'Dynasties'
- Family Input in the Making of a London Genealogical Directory in the Eighteenth Century
- The Genealogist at Work
- Genealogy and Heraldry as Means of Noble Self-Affirmation in Italy: the Case of the Cesi (c.1477-1630)
- The Production of Genealogical Knowledge for the Arrangement of Archives of Noble Families (Portugal, Fifteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries)
- Generation, Theft, and Dynasty in Eighteenth-Century Württemberg
- How to Disentangle Four Generations of Anthonii Matthaei - and Why
- Index
