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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Familial Truths and Precarious Knowledge. New Approaches to European Family Books of the Late Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Familial groups are knowledge and truth communities of a very unique kind. Based on kinship, they are largely constituted by shared knowledge of their own past and present. However, the processes of intrafamilial communication that produce, disseminate and modify this knowledge have long eluded the historian's gaze. It is only in the late Middle Ages that sources become more reliable, with a special role played by family books, which have been researched only in recent years and emerged almost simultaneously in Italy and Germany. These books contain writings by one or more family members about their own family and its place in the respective social environment.
The section investigates how these family books secured, enforced and disseminated more or less valid knowledge about the family's past and present. Due to the social competition in which the family books were created, the authentication and plausibility of knowledge about the family are particularly important.
The presentations will explore a variety of approaches: in addition to analyzing specific textual strategies and referencing procedures that secured knowledge about the family, the materiality of the books will also be considered, and attention will be given to the actors involved as well as the reconstructed reception situations. Moreover, for the first time, a European comparative perspective will be taken up to address a corresponding research gap.
Overall, the section is located at the interface between premodern kinship research and the history of knowledge in the late Middle Ages, both of which have received numerous new impulses in recent times.
Der Beitrag Familial Truths and Precarious Knowledge. New Approaches to European Family Books of the Late Middle Ages erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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