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In this essay I lay out an argument about the scholarship on the emergent rationality of files. Looking at the case of Heinrich Otto Meisner's groundbreaking modern diplomatics of files and the conditions and possibilities that shaped the argument of his work both practically and politically, I suggest a model for the analysis of bureaucratic mediocracy in historical perspective. I argue for an historical anthropology that acknowledges the epistemic violence and politics of inclusion and exclusion in bureaucracy in order to arrive at an historical anthropology of reason that does not deny, but instead attempts to think through its unequal terms.

The article examines a hitherto unstudied
document containing the earliest decree of Nādir
Shāh (1736–47) and the petition of Muḥammad Ṣafī
Ṣafavī, mutavallī of the pious endowments of
Ardabil. The first part of the paper provides the
transliteration and translation of this document,
and the second part offers a short historical
outline of the respective period and commentaries
on the content and diplomatics. Through the lens
of the document, the article aims to address the
set of circumstances and prevalent issues in the
administration of the vaqf during these
historically turbulent years. Furthermore, from
the viewpoint of diplomatics, unique insight can
be gained into the distinctive features of Nādir's
early documents.

Although by far the most popular use of fifteenth century Fight Books in recent years has been their application to the study of Historical European Martial Arts and interpretations of medieval combat, this manner of learning from them was rarely what their creators had in mind. The following paper, relying primarily on the materials produced by Fiore dei Liberi, Filippo Vadi, Hans Talhoffer, and the anonymous author of Le Jeu de la Hache, will address modern practice and its connection to the source material via a study of the diplomatics of fifteenth century Fight Books, that is to say common tropes that are definitive of the genre. This has been done through analysing the roles of three of these; the purposes of introductions, of the use of language relating to the employment of either a prose or poetic structure, and the importance of the relationships between texts and illustrations. Through this application of diplomatics to Fight Books, the paper shall demonstrate how modern claims regarding authenticity are often overstated and in need of moderation.

Comments on Mediaeval Sources of Rural History. About the Necessity of Publishing, Criticizing, and Reading Sources Mathieu ArnoUX and Ghislain Brunel
The data concerning rural history in the Middle Ages haven't been fully exploited : historians can still reuse and reread many of the texts published in the XIXth century and many sources listed in recent repertories. It is necessary to develop the criticism of documents about landholding (polyptics, inventories of rents and revenues, surveys of domains, and accounts) and of the figures they contain, using strict applications of diplomatics, a cross-Europe comparison, and a complete study of the origins of sources. Thus the small number and complexity of this kind of text will no longer be such forbidding obstacles and the interpretation of these texts will be richer. With such a method, if we reexamine the role of the bishop of Winchester, Henri de Blois, in Cluny around 1150, we can infer that his action must be considered, more than pious care, as a genuine experiment of Anglo-Norman administration and agricultural practices in the Mâconnais.

This article focuses on Pierre Camille Le Moine (1723–1800), an archivist and the author of the first printed French monograph entirely devoted to archives and archival management and description, the influential Diplomatique pratique (1765). The article investigates the strategies that archivists such as Le Moine used to acquire employment. A labour market for archival expertise came into being in mid-eighteenth-century France, and several episodes from Le Moine's professional life illustrate the mechanisms used both by potential employers and employees to attract interest. Next, the article investigates Le Moine's understanding of himself as an archivist and his assumptions about the status of archival work, both in relation to his family life and in relation to the wider cultural changes at the time. While able to use enlightened rhetoric and showing at least some superficial acquaintance with the new sociability of the philosophes, Le Moine in many ways remained anchored in a culture more akin to the world of the traditional antiquarian. Clearly, his constant concern for archives gave him a preservationist bias. What made the author most famous was the publication of Le Diplomatique pratique, a serious attempt to combine erudite diplomatics in the Maurist style with a manual for the practicalities of everyday archival life. The last section of the article studies the nature of daily archival experiences in eighteenth-century France, including daily routines regarding the production, content, structure and function of inventories.

The article briefly shows the formation history and provides an overview of the library of A.A. Zimin, who was the famous scientist, one of the largest experts in the history of Russia in the Middle Ages. The library has been received recently by the Central State Archives of the Moscow Region. The library has been collected by A.A. Zimin for several decades eventually reflecting a wide range of his scientific interests, as well as hobbies. It accumulates the works of many prominent Russian historians, contains a unique collection of Russian chronicles and other documentary publications, which are valuable sources for studying various aspects of the history of Russia. There is a large number of works devoted to the most famous monument of Russian literature – "The Word about Igor's Regiment", in the study of the origin of which A.A. Zimin has been engaged for a long time formulating his point of view on this problem. There are also many publications of a bibliographic nature, works on source studies, historical geography, faleristics, diplomatics, and other auxiliary historical disciplines. Among the books related to the scientist's personal hobbies, there are many works on the history of domestic and foreign cinema. The inscriptions on the books and the ex-librises are of considerable interest. Upon completion of the archival processing of the received collection, the researchers, when they turn to it, will be able to find answers to many questions that interest them.