Three papers of donation of some lands by the judges of Arborea in favor of the Monks, an inventory of the goods of the priory of Bonarcado and a decree issued by the Judge Eleonora D'Arborea to protect the patrimony of the monks of Bonarcado. Unpublished documents found in the historical archive of Madrid and which the Fondazione Sardegna Isola del Romanico , based in Santa Giusta , has decided to present publicly as part of the cultural events that the same institution is planning and organizing throughout the island its common members.
These discoveries will be discussed on Friday 16 June during a conference organized by Giovanni Strinna, associate professor at the University of Sassari and Mariangela Rapetti, associate professor at the University of Cagliari.
«It is a handful of documents found in the Archivio Historico Nacional of Madrid, within a seventeenth-century judicial file - explains Antonello Figus , president of the Foundation for the former mayor of Santa Giusta - The file contained a partial translation, into Spanish, of the Condaghe of Santa Maria di Bonarcado and a translation of five loose documents from the Archive of the Priory of Bonarcado, which no longer exist. The documents are not preserved in their medieval parchment supports, but are translations made in the mid-seventeenth century, when the documents were available in the monastic archive of Bonarcado, before they were dispersed. The contents of these documents are therefore rich in new information which they did not have before their discovery. It will therefore be an important opportunity to learn about new news and thus increase the documentation and information on the Giudicato of Arborea, its Giudicessa Eleonora and deepen elements on the Sardinian Middle Ages and the relationship between the Judges and the Monks».
The event will be hosted by the Arborense Diocesan Museum starting at 18.30 .
