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The Crown and Its Records - (Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History) by Isabel B Taylor (Hardcover)
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- Archives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality.
- About the Author: Isabel Taylor, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
- 490 Pages
- History, Modern
- Series Name: Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History
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Archives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality. This examination of the central English archival system in the period before 1700 highlights the role played by the public records repositories in furnishing precedents for the constitutional struggle between Crown and Parliament. It traces the deployment of archival research in these controversies by three individuals who were at various points occupied with the keeping of records: Sir Robert Cotton, John Selden, and William Prynne. The book concludes by investigating the secretive State Paper Office, home of the arcana imperii, and its involvement in the government's intelligence network: notably the engagement of its most prominent Keeper Sir Thomas Wilson in judicial and political intrigue on behalf of the Crown.
About the Author
Isabel Taylor, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.