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在中世纪晚期法国君主制的危机和巩固阶段，历史意识和历史记忆对政治行动的影响。该项目并不侧重于史学、公关和肖像方面的证词，这些证词通常被作为宣传相关历史图像的手段加以分析。相反，重点关注的是政府和行政机构的书面材料，在某种程度上，它们在君主和臣民之间起到了沟通接口的作用：可以在那里掌握哪些具体的历史记忆元素--它们对尺子和统治者的行政互动有什么意义？为了回答这些问题，我们将对选定的档案藏品进行检查，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漫游，对历史开国人物的引用，或者现在和过去的比较，例如，可以在备忘录、请愿书或当地的恩奎特文件中找到。对这些鲜为人知的原始材料的系统收集代表了重要的基础历史工作。因此，这一研究步骤打开了对中世纪晚期法国历史意识及其政治相关性的新途径，因为它不仅分析君主制权力传播的概念，而且关注与下属的互动：从自下而上的角度，我们检查受试者为了表达自己相对于王室及其代表的目标而采用了哪些历史记忆元素。在此基础上，我们将深入研究君主制历史观与其在不同参与者和人口群体之间的档案回声之间的复杂关系。为此，重点将放在一个具体的政府和行政机构的传统上：委员会，这是沙特王国最重要的管理机构之一。在这个机构的纪念册中，我们可以浓缩地考察君主制与其臣民之间的互动。在这里，我们可以详细地分析，在王室主张和对新兴公共领域的期望之间的界面上，政府的日常实践是如何与固定的历史记忆一起运作的，以及在这个过程中如何--也许--历史的君主制政治发展起来的。

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.