diplomatology

English

Noun

diplomatology (uncountable)

1. The study or science of diplomatics, charters, decrees, etc.
   • 1881, Granville Stanley Hall, Aspects of German Culture, page 14:

     Certain it is that many of the young docents whose specialty is Semitic philology, or Hebrew archaeology, or Church history, or diplomatology, have no deep interest in or little knowledge of the distinctively Christian doctrines […]