Genealogical Knowledge in the Making Tools Practices and Evidence in Early Modern Europe Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History Book 1 1st Edition Jost Eickmeyer (Editor)

Table Contents:

1. Genealogy and the History of Knowledge
2. A Ridiculous Science?
3. Genealogical Practices and Techniques in a Society without its own Nobility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
4. The Production and Application of Genealogical Knowledge in Elias Reusner’s Academic and Poetical Works
5. How an Early Modern Genealogist got his Information
6. Jacob Wilhelm Imhoff and the respublica genealogica
7. Writing Genealogy in Wales, c.1475–c.1640: Sources and Practitioners
8. Negotiating Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Germany
9. Academic Claims and the Limits of Proving Nobility in Johann Georg Estor’s Practische anleitung zur ANENPROBE (1750)
10. The Production of Genealogical Knowledge and the Invention of Princely ‘Dynasties’
11. Family Input in the Making of a London Genealogical Directory in the Eighteenth Century
12. The Genealogist at Work
13. André Duchesne (1584–1640)
14. Genealogy and Heraldry as Means of Noble Self-Affirmation in Italy: the Case of the Cesi (c.1477–1630)
15. The Production of Genealogical Knowledge for the Arrangement of Archives of Noble Families (Portugal, Fifteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries)
16. Generation, Theft, and Dynasty in Eighteenth-Century Württemberg
17. Preacher Johann Ulrich Pregitzer’s Genealogies
18. How to Disentangle Four Generations of Anthonii Matthaei – and Why