Württemberg and Montbéliard: Knowledge and Administration in the 18th Century

符腾堡和蒙贝利亚尔：18 世纪的知识与管理

• 批准号: 423426482
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Renate Dürr
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Neuere Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/423426482?language=en
• 关键词: rttemberg; Montb; liard; Knowledge; Administration

For many years, historians have been interested in the early modern intensification of administrative action. While older studies chiefly concentrated on processes of the consolidation of government and the development of the modern state, more recently, the focus has shifted towards enquiries into scopes of action and processes of negotiation between centralised power and local actors. Choosing an approach firmly rooted in cultural history, newer studies explore the relationship between knowledge and power, as well as practices of the production and dissemination of knowledge. Taking its cue from this new approach to administrative history, and using the example of the Württembergian duchy of Montbéliard, this project interprets information-based government at a distance as a process of translation.In the case of Montbéliard, an extraterritorial dominion of the ducal family of Württemberg as well as a French-speaking enclave, this government at a distance relied to a particularly high degree on the written exchange of knowledge (in both directions) and on the translation of administrative matters, which extended to texts and other media. It is the main hypothesis of this project that government can be understood as a process of translation; in this case, a process of translation in terms of language, culture, and content. For this reason, this project will analyse linguistic translation as well as translation between different media. This objective demands a praxeological and microhistorical approach, since this is best suited to show how much government at a distance and ‘face to face society’ were really interconnected. The other main hypothesis is that a broad spectrum of actors were involved in administrative action, including not only court officials in Württemberg and in Montbéliard, but also merchants, friends and relatives, not least the wives of officials and professional administrators. The number and diversity of involved actors in turn led to a multiplication of translation processes. The third hypothesis is that processes of translation were not only one of the fundamental elements of exchange, but also the root of many misunderstandings and of the disappearance of knowledge, as well as a space that allowed multiple actors to become involved.

多年来，历史学家的历史对现代状态的发展进行了现代化的行动，最近的行动和当地行为者的行动和权力之间的关系。历史，并使用Montbéliard的WüherttembergianDuchy，该项目解释解释解释解释姿态如图所示。在知识的书面交流方面，他对行政事务进行了翻译，将其扩展到文本和其他媒体。媒体这一目标需要一种实践学和微历史的方法，因为这最适合在远处展示许多政府，而“面对面的社会”互联了。只有Württemberg和Montbéliard的法院官员，以及商人，朋友和亲戚，尤其是官员和专业管理者的妻子，而参与者的数量和多样性则导致了翻译过程。翻译过程不是交换的一个元素。