About RAM-np
For any historian, the lack of documentation on a certain subject, a certain reign, a certain institution, always gives the feeling that something remains incomplete, untold, without history. This is a transversal feeling, whether we are talking about medieval, modern, or contemporary historians. Unfortunately, it is common for us to encounter these gaps due to many different, accumulated vicissitudes. The main objective of this project is to try to remedy the lack of documents (especially medieval documents) from two monastic institutions - the Monastery of San Salvador de Grijó and the Monastery of Rendufe - by reconstructing their archives.
Main specific goals
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The study of the history of the institution, in particular the moments when the inventories and the notaries' indexes were created, but also the critical periods when the archives suffered document losses.
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To answer the main question of this project: "what" disappeared and "when".
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The creation of a database to house all the elements collected for the reconstruction of the archive.
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the construction of that virtual archive, where we will be able to find all the data pertaining to each document we know to have existed, at one time, in the monastic archive.