Muniments and monuments: the dawn of archives as cultural patrimony |
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| Authors: | Eric Ketelaar |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Mediastudies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam, 1012 XT, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Around 1800 the “paradigm of patrimony” recognized archives as cultural and national patrimony. That paradigm was, however,
not a new revolutionary invention. It had been fostered by a “patrimony consciousness” which had developed in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. The value of archives as a patrimony to future generations was acknowledged first in the private
sphere by families and then by cities—communities of memory becoming communities of archives.
Eric Ketelaar
is Professor of Archivistics in the Department of Mediastudies of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.
He is Honorary Professor at Monash University, Melbourne (Faculty of Information Technology). He engages with the social history
of archives by researching the history of recordkeeping and the use of records and archives, resulting in articles on thirteenth
century Dordrecht, sixteenth century Leiden, the eighteenth century Court of Holland, Dutch public administration 1795–1950,
and record creation in the context of systematic management in Dutch enterprise, 1870–1940. He is particularly interested
in the relationship between recordkeeping and organizational, professional, and national cultures, past and present. This
led him further to study the role of records and archives in times of oppression, war, liberation, and reconciliation. |
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| Keywords: | Social history of archives Antiquarians Patrimonalization |
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