Author: Markus Friedrich
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421445808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A history of genealogical knowledge-making strategies in the early modern world. In The Maker of Pedigrees, Markus Friedrich explores the complex and fascinating world of central European genealogy practices during the Baroque era. Drawing on archival material from a dozen European institutions, Friedrich reconstructs how knowledge about noble families was created, authenticated, circulated, and published. Jakob Wilhelm Imhoff, a wealthy and well-connected patrician from Nuremberg, built a European community of genealogists by assembling a transnational network of cooperators and informants. Friedrich uses Imhoff as a case study in how knowledge was produced and disseminated during the 17th and 18th centuries. Family lineages were key instruments in defining dynasties, organizing international relations, and structuring social life. Yet in the early modern world, knowledge about genealogy was cumbersome to acquire, difficult to authenticate, and complex to publish. Genealogy's status as a source of power and identity became even more ambivalent as the 17th century wore on, as the field continued to fragment into a plurality of increasingly contradictory formats and approaches. Genealogy became a contested body of knowledge, as a heterogeneous set of actors—including aristocrats, antiquaries, and publishers—competed for authority. Imhoff was closely connected to all of the major genealogical cultures of his time, and he serves as a useful prism through which the complex field of genealogy can be studied in its bewildering richness.
The Maker of Pedigrees
Pedigrees and Pedigree-makers
Author: Edward Augustus Freeman
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Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Royal Descents and Pedigrees of Founders' Kin
Author: Bernard Burke
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Category : Families of royal descent
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Families of royal descent
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Contemporary Review
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Contemporary Review
The Calcutta Law Journal
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Holstein-Friesian World
The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development ...
Author: John Hankins Wallace
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Category : Horse breeding
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category : Horse breeding
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Littell's Living Age
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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