Taylor The Crown and Its Records

Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-079146-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 13, 490 Seiten

Reihe: Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in HistoryISSN

Archives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality. This examination of the central English archival system in the period before 1700 highlights the role played by the public records repositories in furnishing precedents for the constitutional struggle between Crown and Parliament. It traces the deployment of archival research in these controversies by three individuals who were at various points occupied with the keeping of records: Sir Robert Cotton, John Selden, and William Prynne. The book concludes by investigating the secretive State Paper Office, home of the arcana imperii, and its involvement in the government's intelligence network: notably the engagement of its most prominent Keeper Sir Thomas Wilson in judicial and political intrigue on behalf of the Crown.

Zielgruppe

Academics in the fields of early modern history, history of knowl

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Isabel B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Isabel Taylor, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.