Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400–1700.

Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400-1700 Second, Head carefully tracks the political and cultural attitudes toward the affordances of records that simultaneously contributed to and emerged from these shifting documentary practices. Head also highlights more successful projects, whose shared trait, he argues, was conceptual flexibility, usually enabled by the use of a registry system, something Head singles out as a key development of early modern Europe. [Extracted from the article]