12 Episodes

  1. Frances Maguire: ‘Printed Receipts and Personal Solvency: Collecting the Paperwork of Hearth Tax’

    Published: 4/9/2016

  2. Sietske Fransen and Katherine Reinhart: 'Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society'

    Published: 4/8/2016

  3. Matt Symonds: 'Archeology of Reading'

    Published: 4/8/2016

  4. Helen Kemp: ‘All My Manuscripts Papers of My Own Hand to be Carefully Preserved in the Study of the Said Library’

    Published: 4/8/2016

  5. Stéphane Jettot: ‘Treasuries of Refugees: The Collection of Genealogical Archives by Exiled Jacobites in the Reign of Louis XIV’

    Published: 4/8/2016

  6. Brooke Palmieri: ‘A Little World of Strangeness’

    Published: 4/8/2016

  7. Marco Schnyder: ‘Knowledge, Action, and Identity: The Swiss Merchant Nation in Lyon and its Archive (17th-18th centuries)’

    Published: 4/8/2016

  8. Djoeke van Netten: ‘Collecting and Guarding Information just before and after the Establishment of the Dutch East India Company (1602)’

    Published: 4/8/2016

  9. Fabio Antonini: ‘Italian Archives: Administration and Scholarship’

    Published: 4/8/2016

  10. Sundar Henny: ‘Masters of Useless Information: Private Papers as Treasuries in Seventeenth-Century Zurich’

    Published: 4/8/2016

  11. Emma Spary: 'Plants as Tributes and Treasures in Early Modern France'

    Published: 4/8/2016

  12. Eric Ketelaar: 'A Gentleman’s Treasuries in the Dutch Republic'

    Published: 4/8/2016

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Treasuries of Knowledge: Collecting and Transmitting Information in the Early Modern World Colloquium, 8 April 2016 Organisers: Jennifer Bishop, Liesbeth Corens, and Tom Hamilton Early modern people understood collections of information as ‘treasuries’, both in a metaphorical and a material sense. Collecting and storing information created a useful, cumulative repository for present and future reference. Collections were preserved in jewel houses or treasure rooms, their contents locked up in chests or boxes, thus reinforcing the idea that information was a valuable commodity to which access should be moderated. They were situated at the interface between past and future, particular documents and larger structures. They also raise questions of secrecy and access, value and materiality. In discussing treasuries, this one-day workshop directs the conversation towards their utility and value, their form and location, and the hierarchies they constituted. It provides a platform for further exchanges among the diverse scholars working on collecting, and invites scholars to reflect further on the common denominator of the utility of collections and the significance of their location and accessibility. For the full programme, see: https://liesbethcorens.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/final-programme-treasurie.pdf.