Ke smyslu a úskalím zpřístupňování raně novověkých diplomatických pramenů in extenso (diskusní příspěvek)

The aim of the paper is to stimulate a broader discussion in the interested editorial circles focused primarily on practical problems related to the access to early modern historical sources. The representative coverage of material from the 16th to the 18th centuries through critical source editions encounters a huge number of extant documents, especially those of an official nature. Editors therefore often resort to a technically (and therefore time-consuming) less demanding form of processing than editing historical sources in extenso, namely the form of extracts. In this paper, the pitfalls of processing such extracts are illustrated by a thorough analysis of one particular example. Subsequently, an overview of the difficulties accompanying the publication of early modern official documents in full is formulated. The paper seeks to emphasize the thesis that although making them available in extenso can only be applied selectively, it should remain a publishing ideal pursued wherever it is both desirable and possible

Extant taxon · Publishing · Education, Psychology, and Social Research