History in administrative contexts. Historical consciousness and historiographical constructions in the archival holdings of the late medieval French monarchy

该项目的目的是调查历史意识和历史记忆对中世纪后期法国君主制危机和巩固阶段的政治行动的影响。该项目不关注史学、宣传学和图像学的证词，这些证词通常被分析为传播相关历史图像的手段。更确切地说，重点是政府和行政机构的书面材料，它们在一定程度上起着王权和臣民之间沟通界面的作用：在那里可以掌握哪些具体的历史记忆元素——它们对统治者和被统治者之间的行政互动有什么意义？为了回答这些问题，将对选定的档案馆藏进行检查，以寻找历史思想和论证的具体证据。我们正在寻找简明的历史考察，对历史创始人物的参考，或者对现在和过去的比较，例如，在备忘录、请愿书或当地“enquêtes”的文件中可以找到。系统地收集这些很少被考虑的原始材料是重要的基础历史工作。因此，这一研究步骤为中世纪晚期法国历史意识及其政治相关性的元素开辟了新的途径，因为它不仅分析了王权传播的概念，而且侧重于与下属的互动：从自下而上的角度来看，我们研究了受试者为了表达自己的目标而采取的历史记忆元素-à-vis皇室及其代表。在此基础上，我们将深入研究历史的君主制概念及其在各种行动者和人口群体中的档案回声之间的复杂关系。为此目的，重点将放在一个具体的政府和行政机构的传统上：商会，这是王国最重要的管理机构之一。在该机构的纪念册中，我们可以以简明的形式考察君主与臣民之间的互动。在这里，我们可以分析一下，在皇室要求和新兴公共领域的期望之间的接口，政府的日常实践是如何与既定的历史记忆一起运作的，以及历史上的君主政治是如何在这个过程中发展起来的。

The aim of the project is to investigate the influence of historical consciousness and historical memory on political action in the phases of crisis and consolidation of the French monarchy in the late Middle Ages. The project does not focus on the historiographical, publicist, and iconographic testimonies, which are usually analysed as means of propagating relevant historical images. Rather, the focus is on the written material of governmental and administrative bodies, which to a certain extent functions as a communicative interface between kingship and subjects: What concrete elements of historical memory can be grasped there - and which significance do they have for the administrative interaction of rulers and ruled?In order to answer these questions, selected archive holdings will be examined for concrete evidence of historical thought and argumentation. We are looking for concise historical excursus, references to historical founding figures, or comparisons between the present and the past that can be found, for example, in memoranda, petitions, or the files of local 'enquêtes'. The systematic collection of this scarcely considered source material represents important basic historical work. As a result, this research step opens up new access to elements of late medieval French historical consciousness and its political relevance, since it does not only analyse the concepts propagated by the monarchical power, but rather focuses on the interaction with the subordinates: From a bottom-up perspective, we examine which elements of historical memory the subjects take up in order to express their own goals vis-à-vis the royalty and its representatives.Building on this, we will examine in depth the complex relationship between monarchical conceptions of history and their archival echoes among various actors and population groups. To this end, the focus will be on the tradition of a specific governmental and administrative institution: the Chambre des comptes, one of the most important governing bodies of the kingdom. In the memorial books of this institution, we can survey in condensed form the interaction between the monarchy and its subjects. Here we can analyse in nuce how, in the interface between royal claims and the expectations of an emerging public sphere, the everyday practice of government was operated with set pieces of historical memory and how - perhaps - a monarchical politics of history developed in the process.