The genealogical gaze: family identities and family archives in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries

Authors
Publication date 2009
Journal Libraries & The Cultural Record
Volume | Issue number 44 | 1
Pages (from-to) 9-28
Number of pages 20
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Abstract In Renaissance Florence, early modern England, and the Netherlands during the Golden Age the "genealogical gaze" transfigured family archives into a cultural patrimony to be preserved, expanded, and transferred to future generations. Descendants, by appropriating the object of that genealogical gaze, embraced the values and modalities of the "paradigm of patrimoine."
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.0.0059
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