Eickmeyer / Friedrich / Bauer Genealogical Knowledge in the Making

Tools, Practices, and Evidence in Early Modern Europe
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-11-059351-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in HistoryISSN

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eickmeyer, Jost

Friedrich, Markus

Bauer, Volker

Über Autor(innen)

Jost Eickmeyer, Freie Univerität Berlin; Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg, Volker Bauer, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.