Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 10 October 2021.
A new collection of essays on the Court of Star Chamber and its records is out now, freely available online thanks to the Open Access provisions of its publishers. Many historians and literary scholars draw upon Star Chamber’s records as sources or texts, as shown to good effect by contributors to the new book. Some of the essays in the volume suggest, too, that we should look not just through our archives but at them.[1] This post briefly follows up on this suggestion and expands upon the Introduction’s observation that ‘the record’ meant something quite particular for the people who produced the legal documents we use.
Anyone who works with the documentary relics of the past has had occasion to bemoan the fires, floods, wars, and other such ravages…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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