Genealogical Knowledge in the Making : : Tools, Practices, and Evidence in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Jost Eickmeyer, Markus Friedrich, Volker Bauer.

Der Band untersucht in vergleichender Perspektive, mit welchen Anstrengungen und Schwierigkeiten in der Frühen Neuzeit in Europa genealogisches Wissen gesammelt wurde. Während Genealogie bisher vor allem in ihrer sozialen Bedeutung erforscht wurde, geht es hier um die Frage ihrer Herstellung. Dabei...

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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History : Wissenskulturen und ihre Praktiken , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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