Biographies of university archives

The monograph is devoted to university archives as a phenomenon of culture. The international author’s team, including famous specialists in the history of universities from Russia, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland and France, presents vivid and fascinating stories about the fate of the archives of European universities from the Middle Ages to our time. With all the variety of research techniques presented in the book, the authors unites the view of the archive not as a passive storage of business documentation, but as a complex mechanism that generates their own meanings and opens up new facets in the study of university culture.
The book is addressed to humanitarian scientists studying the history and theory of university education, as well as all the problems of memory and intellectual culture