Ebook: Schriftlose Vergangenheiten: Geschichtsschreibung an ihrer Grenze von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart

The “unwritten past” is composed of past cultures, peoples, figures, events, and situations that have left no accessible written legacies. The papers examine how historical scholars and academics – from the early modern era until the present – dealt with this vacuum, the alternative remainders of written source material they discovered, and the “histories” that were developed in this way.