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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), draws 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 juspatronatus, 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 aims to foster the exchange of methodological perspectives on archival typologies and institutional history, encouraging new interpretative frameworks and criticalapproaches to complex, multi-layered documentary corpora and peculiar archival and historical settings. Through the examination of selected documentary typologies, participants will engage with materials concerning the Bailiwick of Juspatronatum and the Priory of Rome, exploring their institutional and administrative significance within the Barberini family, the Hospitaller, and the European contexts.

Programme

• Morning Session (Sala Barberini)

09:00 – 09:30 | Official Ceremony

Welcome Speeches (Excellency Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi; Don Mauro Mantovani; Prof. Charles J. Farrugia)

Signature of the Letter of Intents

09:30 – 09:50 | Presentation 1: Prof. Emanuel Buttigieg

09:50 – 10:10 | Presentation 2: Dr Isabella Aurora

10:10 – 10:30 | Presentation 3: Dr Chiara Cambrai

10:30 – 10:50 | Presentation 4: Dr Valeria Vanesio

10:50 – 11:00 | Short Pause and coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 | Session on Documents

Discussion and review of relevant materials by Dr Cambrai and Dr Vanesio, including short interventions of the University of Malta’s alumni, Jeremy Debono and Curtis Callus.

Q&A / open exchange

• Midday

12:30 – 13:30 | Visit to Salone Sistino and Galleria Lapidaria

13:30 – 14:30 | Light Lunch

• Afternoon Session (Sezione Archivi)

14:30 – 16:30 | Visit to the Sezione Archivi

Presentation of the Sezione Archivi by Dr Aurora

Focus on the bailiwick’s records by Dr Cambrai and Dr Vanesio

• Closing (Sala Barberini)

16:30 – 17:30 | Wrap-up & Closing Remarks

Intervention by Prof. William Zammit

Reflections on the day and next steps on the project and acknowledgments