The Expansion of Diplomatics as a Discipline

The author discusses the origins of diplomatics as a distant intellectual discipline in the second half of the seventeenth century. With the strong influence of classical philology and positiveness, diplomatics became more refined and specialized. The field created a structure which is formed by cer...

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Published in:The American archivist 1996-10, Vol.59 (4), p.414-421
Main Author: Guyotjeannin, Olivier
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ambition
Archives
Archivists
Diplomacy
Diplomatics
Economic diplomacy
Fraud
Historical research
Positivism
Text analysis
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Summary:The author discusses the origins of diplomatics as a distant intellectual discipline in the second half of the seventeenth century. With the strong influence of classical philology and positiveness, diplomatics became more refined and specialized. The field created a structure which is formed by certain steps to be taken in the study and analysis of a document according to a taxonomy. He concludes by examining diplomatics in the 1950s when the field, though rooted in the analysis of ancient documents, tests the borderlines between documentary analysis and historical research.
ISSN:0360-9081
DOI:10.17723/aarc.59.4.t633736877g1p2xu