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IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1247: Untangling the World of Documentary Conservation Practices in Portuguese Monastic Archives: From the Middle Ages to the 19th Century

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória' (CITCEM), Universidade do Porto / Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Lisboa
Organiser:Maria João de Oliveira e Silva, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória' (CITCEM), Universidade do Porto
Moderator/Chair:Maria João de Oliveira e Silva, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória' (CITCEM), Universidade do Porto
Paper 1247-aReconstructing the Archives of the Monastery of Grijó from libri copiarum of the Medieval Period
(Language: English)
Ana Catarina Soares, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto
Cristina Cunha, Departamento de História e de Estudos Políticos e Internacionais, Universidade do Porto
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1247-bReconstructing the Archives of the Monastery of Grijó from Libri copiarum from the 18th Century
(Language: English)
Ana Catarina Pinto, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1247-cReconstructing the Archives of the Monastery of Rendufe from 16th- to 19th-Century Inventories and Charters
(Language: English)
Maria João de Oliveira e Silva, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória' (CITCEM), Universidade do Porto
Joana Lencart, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

The aim of this session is to untangle the complex world of monastic documentary conservation practices over the centuries. In fact, the total or partial absence of inventories and catalogues of the archives of monastic institutions, 'born' in Portugal in the Middle Ages and extinct by the 19th Century, forces us to seek alternative ways to reconstruct those archives and thus understand the mental entanglement behind different forms of archival organization and document preservation or even destruction practices. To this end, we will focus our attention on two monasteries in northern Portugal: S. Salvador de Grijó and Santo André Rendufe.

Paper -b is co-authored by Luís Carlos Amaral (Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória' (CITCEM), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto)