Diplomatics

military pact

Diplomatics (in American English, and in most anglophone countries), or diplomatic (in British English), is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents, especially historical documents. It focuses on the conventions, protocols and formulae that have been used by document creators, and uses these to increase understanding of the processes of document creation, of information transmission, and of the relationships between the facts which the documents purport to record and reality.

Chinese encyclopedia compiled between 977 and 983

historical administrative unit responsible for writing and notarizing official documents

German scholar and diplomat (1808-1887)

Italian historian and palaeographer (1871–1934)