Ranked #1
Djoeke van Netten: ‘Collecting and Guarding Information just before and after the Establishment of the Dutch East India Company (1602)’
Djoeke van Netten: ‘Collecting and Guarding Information just before and after the Establishment of the Dutch East India Company (1602)’
Discussion of concealing and revealing, inclusion and exclusion in the history of information gathering of the Dutch Eas... Read more
8 Apr 2016
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18mins
Ranked #2
Sundar Henny: ‘Masters of Useless Information: Private Papers as Treasuries in Seventeenth-Century Zurich’
Sundar Henny: ‘Masters of Useless Information: Private Papers as Treasuries in Seventeenth-Century Zurich’
Sundar Henny Challenges the focus on 'information' and 'knowledge' in the study of archives and libraries, and draws att... Read more
8 Apr 2016
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17mins
Ranked #3
Brooke Palmieri: ‘A Little World of Strangeness’
Brooke Palmieri: ‘A Little World of Strangeness’
Discussion of Thomas Leeds's Temple of Wisdom, reflecting on the treasuring mentality and the role of the 'impartial rea... Read more
8 Apr 2016
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15mins
Ranked #4
Marco Schnyder: ‘Knowledge, Action, and Identity: The Swiss Merchant Nation in Lyon and its Archive (17th-18th centuries)’
Marco Schnyder: ‘Knowledge, Action, and Identity: The Swiss Merchant Nation in Lyon and its Archive (17th-18th centuries)’
Discussion of the Swiss merchant archives and their use in legal and cultural usage.
8 Apr 2016
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21mins
Ranked #5
Fabio Antonini: ‘Italian Archives: Administration and Scholarship’
Fabio Antonini: ‘Italian Archives: Administration and Scholarship’
Discussion of the access and use of the Venetian secret archives, interrelating the administrative impulses with erudite... Read more
8 Apr 2016
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19mins