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T1 Archival practices in Early Modern Spain: transformation, destruction and (re)construction of family archives in the Canary Islands
A1 Gutiérrez de Armas, Judit
K1 Family archives
K1 Archival practices
K1 Canary Islands
K1 Early Modern Age
AB The Canary Islands were conquered from the aboriginal population and colonised in the fifteenth century. This process subjected its inhabitants to the Castilian legal framework, in which evidence ofownership was demanded through documentary proof. Archives,therefore, proliferated in the new territory as a necessity to demonstrate,prove and preserve privileges and patrimony. At the sametime, the ‘value’ of archives made them targets for destruction, theftor seizure in situations of social, political, military and family conflict.Moreover, Canary Island archives were affected by natural causesand natural disasters. Within this context, the present paper focuseson the transformations caused by these factors in family archives.The paper aims to explain how, in cases of damage or destruction,families struggled to reconstruct their archives in order to manageand defend their patrimony and family memory. Drawing on differentexamples, this paper offers empirical evidence on the multicontextualismof these archives. The results demonstrate thatseveral family archives in the Canary Islands are (re)constructionsfrom the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Moreover, thearchival practices can be framed within a progressive inclusion inthe islands of the ‘New Archive Culture’ from mainland Spain.
SN 0157-6895
YR 2019
FD 2019
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UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35622
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NO Judit Gutiérrez-de-Armas (2020) Archival practices in Early Modern Spain: transformation, destruction and (re)construction of family archives in the Canary Islands, Archivesand Manuscripts, 48:1, 5-24, DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1604243
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 24-nov-2024