Humanities Exploratory Workshops

Ego-Documents In European Context

Convened by: François-Joseph Ruggiu (FR)

Location: 21-25 May 2008, Bordeaux, France

Keywords

history of the self ; family history ; history of written culture ; social history ; early modern and modern history

Summary

Everywhere in Europe, scientific teams or scholars are severally working on egodocuments. Egodocuments are a specific kind of texts produced by ordinaries people from the end of the Middle Age including memoirs, autobiographies, diaries and other forms of private journals. These fascinating documents could be used in a great number of topics like the history of the self, the history of the family or the history of the European culture and some of these teams are even currently building extensive censuses of all egodocuments kept in archives or libraries. Participants will search the ways to coordinate these efforts at an European scale, to share experience about the use of these texts, to extend the censuses to all the European countries, and to develop common scientific approaches to these texts.

Preliminary programme and Provisional list of participant

(for information purposes only - this meeting is not open to the public)

• Preliminary programme and List of Participants  

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