Compares the archives of European states after 1500 to reveal changes in how records supported memory, authority and power.

The dynamic but little-known story of how archives came to shape and be shaped by European culture and society

European states were overwhelmed with information around 1500. Their agents sought to organize their overflowing archives to provide trustworthy evidence and co

Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed al

Includes revised version of papers from a conference entitled "Transforming Information: Record Keeping in the Early Modern World" held at the British Academy i