Judicial files and digital humanities in the periphery of the Spanish Empire. The Archive of Corrientes. Argentina. XVII-XIX Centuries

Abstract

This article aims to present and describe a work project and ongoing research. We refer to a Digitization Project and Database of the Judicial Fund operating in the Archive of the Province of Corrientes, Argentina. For this reason throughout the article, the configuration of the local archive is analyzed, the similar projects that exist in the region linked to the digitization of sources, and finally, examples of the cases prosecuted in the justice of the first instance in Corrientes are presented a study of a society on the margins of the Spanish Empire.