English summary: The city of Esslingen in southwestern Germany provides a perfect case study for the writing, administration, and storage of documents in a late medieval imperial city. The volume, jointly produced by the University of Stuttgart and the Esslingen City Archive, comprises twelve contributions that deal with writing and administrative practice from various perspectives and evaluate various sources through a modern research approach. By careful research of the source material, the authors gain new and surprising ...
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English summary: The city of Esslingen in southwestern Germany provides a perfect case study for the writing, administration, and storage of documents in a late medieval imperial city. The volume, jointly produced by the University of Stuttgart and the Esslingen City Archive, comprises twelve contributions that deal with writing and administrative practice from various perspectives and evaluate various sources through a modern research approach. By careful research of the source material, the authors gain new and surprising insights both for the research on the history of writing and for the regional and general history of the city. German description: Das Schreiben, Verwalten und Aufbewahren von Dokumenten in einer spatmittelalterlichen Reichsstadt kann kaum irgendwo so intensiv beleuchtet werden wie fur Esslingen. Der von der Universitat Stuttgart und dem Stadtarchiv Esslingen gemeinsam erarbeitete Band umfasst zwolf Beitrage, die aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln und unter Auswertung diverser Quellengruppen Schriftlichkeit und Verwaltungspraxis unter modernen Fragestellungen behandeln. Die Autorinnen und Autoren gewinnen dabei durch subtile Untersuchungen des Quellenmaterials neue und uberraschende Einblicke sowohl fur die Schriftlichkeitsforschung als auch fur die regionale wie allgemeine Stadtgeschichte.
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