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Reframing the Barberini Archive through Hospitaller Malta: Archival Methodologies and Documentary Typologies
This seminar, designed for MA, specialisation and doctoral students of the Department of Library, ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ and Archive Sciences (University of Malta), drew on a multi-year, multi-institutional project conducted by the Sezione Archivi of the Vatican Library (Dr Isabella Aurora and Dr Chiara Cambrai) and the University of Malta (Dr Valeria Vanesio) and entitled “The Barberini Archive and the Order of St John between Rome and Europe: sources, institutions, and actors across the bailiwick of jus patronatus, family strategies, and legal-institutional frameworks”.
The project focuses on the Barberini Archive and aims to the identification, study, rearrangement, and contextual description of the records relating to Malta and the Order of St John.
This one-day seminar aimed to foster the exchange of methodological perspectives on archival typologies and institutional history, encouraging new interpretative frameworks and critical approaches to complex, multi-layered documentary corpora and peculiar archival and historical settings. Through the examination of selected documentary typologies, participants engaged with materials concerning the bailiwick of jus patronatum and the Priory of Rome, exploring their institutional and administrative significance within the Barberini family, the Hospitaller, and the European contexts.
At the opening of the seminar, a ceremony was held for the renewal of the letter of intent between the Vatican Apostolic Library and the Department of Library, ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ and Archive Studies of the University of Malta, signed by Prefect Dom Mauro Mantovani and Professor Charles J. Farrugia.
