Admission demands
This program is a component regarding the (Res)MA History Programme. It is really not available for BA pupils.
Description
This Research Seminar is targeted on the archives associated with the VOC or Dutch East Asia business. It partly functions as a practical, more counterpart that is specific of Literature Seminar. It handles a number of the basic archival dilemmas talked about here, but details them into the context of the seventeenth- and 18th-century Dutch-Asian enterprise that is commercial. Even though the VOC records formally comprised company management, in training they even functioned as a huge repository of valuable and key info on a variety of activities in early-modern Asia.
The different staying VOC archives are comprised of numerous various types or even “genres” of papers, including maps. Further, they partly overlap with materials that fall beyond your confines of those collections, but they are closely pertaining to them, such as for example personal documents, missionary records, travel records, as well as artwork. These diverse materials had been produced with various purposes, are comprised and organised in numerous means, and information that is present various perspecitives.
This seminar considers and compares all of these sources from both an archival and a point that is historiographical of. Continue reading An archival VOC mindset? Archival problems within an early-modern Dutch-Asian context