Archive and Library Theory and Management

The course aims to train the professionalism of young archivists and librarians by providing them with specialized knowledge of the political and cultural conditions that led to the formation of state and ecclesiastical archives between the late Middle Ages and the early modern age. While pointing out the existence of other types of archiving of a corporate or family nature, the course presents the political history of large modern archives in the intertwining of writing practices of chancellors and secretaries and exercise of power over the territory. Particular attention will also be paid to the role of the archive in modern historiography.