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The book offers guidance to aspiring historians at every stage and in every walk of life, from practical advice on tackling and organizing projects to recommendations for finding and using resources of all kinds, whether at the local library or historical society or on the world wide web. It is intended to be a serious guide to the best practices for researchers as well as a good read as a collection of research stories. The author includes useful bibliographies, vetted websites, and practical advice on doing research well.
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions—some only recently discovered—provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, Catalonia was a thriving, independent set of principalities within what would...
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El llibre recull les aportacions presentades a la 2a Jornada Museus i Patrimoni de l’Església a Catalunya, que va celebrar-se al Museu de Lleida el 20 de novembre de 2014. La jornada, en la qual van participar especialistes vinguts d’arreu del país, va aprofundir en la formació de col·leccions diocesanes a Catalunya, abordant la gènesi dels museus de l’Església catalana, custodis d’un patrimoni bàsic per entendre la història del país. Polítiques patrimonials i directrius vaticanes, compres i vendes, antiquaris i col·leccionistes, rectors i bisbes seran els protagonistes d’aquesta obra, que poua en els orígens de la museologia catalana.