The matter that makes me pleased: on the physical testimony of the past in Fr. Francisco de S. Luís Saraiva
Abstract
An enduring interest of the benedictine Fr. Francisco de S. Luís, later Cardinal Saraiva (1766-1845) was the documentation and study of archaeological remains, namely epigraphs. Departing from the evidence supplied by a personal scrapbook of historical and archeological notes, as well as some correspondence in private hands, the present article aims to interrogate Saraiva’s dedication to this type of heritage, a scarcely-considered aspect of his activity, and its bearing on the historian’s relation with the past. It is our purpose, simultaneously, to signal the recent digitisation of this material by the Municipal Archive of Ponte de Lima, and to stimulate its continued study.
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