Obscure Hands Trusted Men Textualization The Office Of The City Scribe And The Written Management Of Information And Communication Of The Council Of Reval Tallinn Before 1460 Tapio Salminen by Tapio Salminen 9789520300845, 9520300848 instant download after payment.

Academic Dissertation, University of Tampere, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, History, 2016.
Management of information is essentially a modern concept meaning the organisation and control over the structure, processing and delivering of information for different uses in decision making. In my PhD thesis, I explore and discuss the possibilities of its use in the context of the administration and communication of the council of Reval (today Tallinn, capital of Estonia) from the earliest known use of the seal of the city in 1257 to the retirement of city scribe and notary public Joachim Muter from his office in 1456/60. My focus is on both the formation of the agency (office) of the city scribes as hired professionals in the written management of information of the civic authority and the process of textualization: that is, the application of the technology of writing in the management of information, communication, administration and textual manifestations of authority in the activity of the council. The study is based on the vast corpus of original material from the council activity still available in the Tallinn City Archives of with supplements from other archives and source editions.