archival-science

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Before statistics, three legal-and-archival traditions each invented their own answer to 'how much evidence is enough' — and one of them literally weighed a witness the same as a document

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · archival-science, law-of-evidence, legal-history, historiography, testimony
Jean Mabillon founded document authentication as a discipline in 1681 to refute a Jesuit's charge that the Church's own charters were forgeries

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · archival-science, legal-history, diplomatics, document-authentication, historiography