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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Humanities |
| Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Avanzados en Museos, Arquivos e Bibliotecas |
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| History of Archives and Libraries |
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| Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | History of Archives and Libraries | Code | 710521020 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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| 1. General introduction to the history of Archives and Libraries 2. First civilizations I. The ancient East. Sumer and the birth of writing. The great Mesopotamian tradition. Pharaonic Egypt. 3. First civilizations II. The Far East: India, China and Japan. Pre-Columbian America: Mayans, Incas and Aztecs. 4. Ancient Greece. The documentary system of the Mycenaean world. Athenian Democracy and Archives. Libraries of Hellenism. 5. Ancient Rome. The Republic: official archives and private libraries. The Empire: public and private libraries. The documentary system and its evolution. 6. The transmission of classical culture: Byzantium, Islam. 7. The Christian West: Archives and Monastic Libraries. The Carolingian Renaissance. 8. New religious orders: their libraries. Cathedral Archives and Libraries. Universities and their libraries. 9. The Royal Archives and Libraries. The new humanism. Private libraries. 10. The advent of modern times: XV century. Royal Archives and Libraries. . 11. Reformation and Counter-Reformation: the 16th century. The Council of Trent and its impact on book publishing and library life. The testimony of Cervantes. The modern State and the State archive. Simancas. 12. The time of the Baroque: the seventeenth century. The triumph of vernacular letters and the baroque printing press. Spanish America: viceregal archives and government administration; the formation of libraries: church and individuals. 13. The 18th century and the Enlightenment. Enlightened despotism, archives and public libraries. Societies, academies and the role of the press. The case of France: the Encyclopedia, the French book. 14. The time of the French Revolution and its consequences. Books, readers and libraries: freedom, censorship and persecution. Archives in the revolutionary period. 15. The 19th century and the new liberal state. New formats and printing techniques. Towards a readers' society: public and private libraries. Historical and administrative archives. The birth of archival science. The Library of Congress. 16. The 20th century and the consolidation of archival and library culture in the Western world. The archives of Europe, between two world wars. Archives and democracy. Models and examples of European university libraries. Archives and Libraries in the United States. 17. History of archives in contemporary Spain. State archives, provincial archives, municipal. Archives of the Church and individuals. |
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