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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Sept 1996

The Expansion of Diplomatics as a Discipline

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Page Range: 414 – 421
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.59.4.t633736877g1p2xu
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The author discusses the origins of diplomatics as a distant intellectual discipline in the second half of the seventeenth century. With the strong influence of classical philology and positiveness, diplomatics became more refined and specialized. The field created a structure which is formed by certain steps to be taken in the study and analysis of a document according to a taxonomy. He concludes by examining diplomatics in the 1950s when the field, though rooted in the analysis of ancient documents, tests the borderlines between documentary analysis and historical research.

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