Article ID: CBB001213719

Historians in the Archive: An Introduction (2013)

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Huistra, Pieter (Author)
Paul, Herman (Author)
Tollebeek, Jo (Author)


History of the Human Sciences
Volume: 26, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 3-7


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue, “Historians in the Archive”
Language: English

Historians in the 19th-century were not the first to discover the importance of source materials kept in archival depositories. More than their predecessors, however, scholars working in the historical discipline that the 19th century saw emerge tended to equate professional historical knowledge with knowledge based on primary source research, that is, practically speaking, on knowledge gained from source material that was usually kept in archives. While previous scholarship had paid ample attention to the methods that 19th-century historians employed for the study of such archival material, to the epistemologies they developed in tandem with these methods and to the institutions they created for the study of archival records, this special issue explores the influence that archives, in a classic, institutional sense, exerted on the practices of 19th-century historiography. How did the archival turn affect historians' working manners? How contested was this archival research imperative, with its underlying autopsy principle? And how did it spread geographically, in and outside Europe?

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Includes Series Articles

Article Eskildsen, Kasper Risbjerg (2013) Inventing the Archive: Testimony and Virtue in Modern Historiography. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 50-66). unapi

Article Huistra, Pieter (2013) The Trial of Henry of Brederode: Historians, Sources and Location under Discussion in 19th-Century Historiography. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 50-66). unapi

Article Jeurgens, Charles (2013) The Untamed Archive: History-Writing in the Netherlands East Indies and the Use of Archives. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 84-106). unapi

Article Mehl, Margaret (2013) The European Model and the Archive in Japan: Inspiration or Legitimation?. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 107-127). unapi

Article Müller, Philipp (2013) Towards a History of “the Use of State Archives” in the 19th Century. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 67-83). unapi

Article Paul, Herman (2013) The Heroic Study of Records: The Contested Persona of the Archival Historian. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 67-83). unapi

Article Trüper, Henning (2013) Wild Archives: Unsteady Records of the Past in the Travels of Enno Littmann. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 128-148). unapi

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Kaspar Beelen
Braun, Birgit
Aleguas, Shirley A.
Ruth Ahnert
Barbara McGillivray
Mariona Coll Ardanuy
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Historical method
Historiography
Libraries and archives
Research
History of medicine, as a discipline
Psychiatry
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
Germany
Europe
Netherlands
Portugal
Japan
Illinois (U.S.)
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