This research project deals with when, how and why the Templars and Hospitallers memories were established in the Crown of Aragon and Navarre and how and why they were subsequently moved, preserved, and even remade.

From their early times until the abolition of the Temple and the consequent transformations of the Hospital, both orders produced a significant amount of documentation, some of which is kept in the main Spanish archives. The memories of these institutions were shaped by the different written documentary traditions and evolutions which recorded legal and administrative acts, but also actions to be remembered and preserved. 

In this sense, it is essential to identify the functional value of most of these documents, both when they were written or transferred in later times, analyzing also the pre-intentional value in the generation and dissemination corporative memory and its uses for promoting and legitimizing these orders.

This project analyzes the documents of both orders, mainly written, from different levels of form, content and the institutional, social and ideological contexts of their production in the different priories or preceptories and comparing them on a regional scale.. For this reason, it will be taken into account that these documents were generators of ideology, images or the retention of specific memories.

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