Vallfogona and the Vall de Sant Joan: a community in the grip of change
An obvious point from which to start exploring both grand and individual histories in late-Carolingian Catalonia, because of its detail the established context it can be placed, is cloister Sant Joan de Ripoll, known since eleventh century as les Abadesses. Now a parish church, sited Ripoll valley, slightly further up Ter than sister foundation, Santa Maria. Unlike that house, has left considerable part documentation. From sixteenth-century inventory archive, preserved first volume house’s Llibre Canalars, clear what now extant at or (mostly) Arxiu la Corona Aragó Barcelona, only about half was once there, although losses are partially offset by regesta inventory. None less, ninth- tenth-century material for convent environs most standards plentiful.