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Brepols has many important electronic publications among its
overall list of publications. Please click on a series-title to get a detailed description, or use
the scrollbars to scan all the relevant series.
For some series a demonstration of the electonic product is available in
Microsoft PowerPoint format. You can use the PowerPoint program from the Microsoft
Office Suite to display this presentation which will provide you an outline of the
functions and contents of a CD-Rom. If you do not have this program, you
may download a small viewer that still permits the user to run (but not edit)
PowerPoint presentations. The viewer can be found here.
Many of the "Latin text" CD ROM's
involve the activities of the Centre « Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium »
(CTLO ) and/or of Cetedoc (before 01 octobre 2001). Today CTLO continues former
activities in the field of Latin studies of Cetedoc. Cetedoc
has been founded by the Université Catholique de Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve
and was developed jointly with the university.
From october 2001 on, the Centre « Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium »
in Turnhout continues these activities under the scholarly supervision of Prof. Em. P.
Tombeur.
| Editorial responsibility:
Royal
Irish Academy (Dublin) |
The
corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe
In the early Middle Ages, literate men in and from
the Celtic periphery of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and
Scotland) wrote many and varied Latin works constituting a distinctive
literature called ‘one of the most curious and interesting phenomena of
medieval philology’. In an attempt to codify this usage, the Royal Irish
Academy has been working towards producing a computer based Dictionary
of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources.
With the launch of the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL-1) these texts become valuable not only to the lexicographer
but also to scholars in other disciplines such as editors of texts,
syntacticians, historians interested in the transmission of ideas and
texts, researchers into the geographical or chronological distribution of
usages.
The first release, ACLL-1,
contains texts from important authors such as St. Patrick, Augustinus
Hibernicus, Columbanus, Sedulius Scottus, John Scottus Eriugena, Peter
Abelard. Over one hundred saints’ lives are included as well as many
theological works, liturgical, legislative and penitential works and
inscriptions. More than 400 Latin works from over 100 known and unknown
authors are included. |
| Present version: ACLL-1 (1994); on 1
CD-Rom |
Updates: irregular |
| Price: EUR
875 |
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
Find more on Hiberno-Latin and Insular Cassics consult http://www.ucd.ie/~classics/96/Howlett96.html.
| Editorial
responsibility: Aristoteles Latinus Centre (Leuven),
Centre « Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium
» - CTLO (Turnhout) |
The
complete corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle.
This database
contains, first of all, those
texts that have been critically edited in the printed Aristoteles Latinus series. Other corpora
complete the database,
whether editions that have already been published or ones in preparation
or unpublished, to produce the finished Aristoteles
Latinus.
The particular benefit of this electronic edition lies in the fact that it
provides an integrated database of all the medieval translations of
Aristotle’s works. The electronic database is not identical
to the printed edition, as it omits the prefaces describing the
manuscript tradition; nor
does it include the apparatus of variant readings, the Greek-Latin
comparative apparatus, or the bilingual indexes of the printed version.
The
texts included are prepared and supervised by the Aristoteles
Latinus Centre of the Catholic University of Leuven, and produced in
collaboration with the CTLO. The aim is to provide the academic world a scholarly
product of the highest quality.
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| Present version:
ALD-1 |
Updates: |
| Price: |
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibility: Centre « Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium
» - CTLO (from BTL-2 on) |
Latin
literature from the Roman Republic to the Imperial Period and Late
Antiquity.
The database is the electronic version of
the Bibliotheca scriptorum Romanorum
Teubneriana. It offers the user the complete texts, other than the
prefaces or critical apparatus, from the standard editions (editions
maiores) of about 800 works spread over eleven centuries (c. 300 BC/BCE
to c. 800 AD/CE).
The first release of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina, BTL-1, comprises classical Latin
literature in almost its entirety for the period up to the second century,
together with the important non-Christian authors from the second century
through to the Carolingian Renaissance. It was developed in collaboration with
Cetedoc.
BTL-2
includes the complete corpus of texts of
the 'Grammatici Latini',
'Servius Grammaticus', a small selection of other texts together with all
texts offered in BTL-1.
It was developed in collaboration with
the
Centre « Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium
» (CTLO ).
Updates are foreseen for this database in the
coming years, making of the Bibliotheca
Teubneriana Latina the central reference database for Latin literature
from the Roman Republic to the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity,
comprising more than 1200 texts. Furthermore, it will include texts drawn
from the many out-of-print editions in this series, which, despite being
produced in the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries remain standard
editions and not replaced by new editions.
BTL-1
contains over 6,6 million Latin words, up to 280 authors and over 600
texts.
BTL-2 contains over 8,5 million Latin words, up to 400 authors and
over 800 texts. |
| Present version:
BTL-2 (march 2002) |
Updates: yearly |
| Price: EUR |
Network price: upon request |
|
| Editorial responsibility: Bibliothèque
Royale Albert I / Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I (Brussels) |
Over 7000
full-colour images, codicological and iconographical descriptions and an
up-to-date bibliography from almost 270 manuscripts
The
historic Library of the Dukes of Burgundy has justifiable been considered,
since the Middle Ages, to be one of the most splendid collections of
Western civilisation. This project provides a fresh analysis and an
inventorised electronic catalogue.
La
Bibliothèque des Ducs de Bourgogne
focuses on 270 extant codices from the original collection that are still
held in the Manuscripts Department of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek /
Bibliothèque royale in Brussels. For each manuscript every miniature (illustration,
marginal decoration, historiated initial etc.) and a large number of the
key folios of the text (incipit, explicit, colophon, prologue, table of
contents etc.) are available. The number of images is estimated to be more
than 7000. Each image is linked to a detailed manuscript description and
an index, using today’s analytical methods.
The
inventory of La Bibliothèque des
Ducs de Bourgogne is laid
out in four coherent series following a classification by literary genre.
The Series A will contain
liturgical texts, philosophical and theological texts and ascetic and
hagiographical writings. Series B
will contain the Bible and books of the Bible as well as didactic writings.
Series C contains the Law books and literary works and Series
D contains the historical writings and classical texts. |
| Present version:
ELDB-1 |
Updates:
every two years |
| Price: EUR |
Network price: upon request |
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| Editorial responsibility:
Cetedoc, Louvain-la-Neuve |
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Latin
Word-forms from the Beginnings until the Twentieth
Century.
The Thesaurus
Formarum (TF-CILF) allows
the user to observe the variety of uoces
latinae from the beginnings of Latin literature to the present, across
periods, centuries, authors and works.
An immense body of texts – which today comprises
almost 63 million word-forms – beginning with Plautus and coming right
to the present day offers the researcher an insight into the whole development of
Western culture. Researchers can achieve rapid and reliable responses to
questions on the history of Latin vocabulary from Antiquity through the
Early Church period and the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the present
day.
This ‘treasure-trove for the Latin language’
brings together huge numbers of word-forms and attestations which a
conventional dictionary could not provide. It fills in the gaps in
dictionaries, corrects their errors, and even supplies new word-forms. For
the first time a reference to the century concerned is provided for each
attestation of a word.
Each attestation can be observed in a supplementary
printed volume, the four columns of which present the frequencies
according to the four principal chronological periods
(Antiquity – the period of the Church Fathers – the Middle Ages
– the Neo-Latin period): single occurrences of word and gaps easily
spring to light. This allows comparative analyses to be undertaken.
In several respects the Thesaurus Formarum (TF-CILF)
is the reference tool par excellence with regard to a study of Latin
vocabulary. It is a reliable starting-point for carrying out research on
text-editions and dictionaries, to study etymological or semantic
questions in any of the languages – Romance, Germanic and other – that
were influenced by Latin. The database therefore has an application in the
historical study of European languages and can have a teaching as well as
a research function.
The Thesaurus
Formarum enables searching to be done both on normalised word-forms
and all the different written historical forms included in this index
of latin forms.
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| Present version: TF-CILF 1 (1999) |
Updates: irregular |
| Price: from
EUR 1735 to EUR 1875 |
Network price: available upon request |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibility:
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Patristic and medieval Latin
literature from the second to fifteenth centuries.
The purpose of the Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)
is to produce a database comprising all patristic and medieval texts
covering authors of the second to the fifteenth centuries. With the
publication of CLCLT-5, the inclusion of Neo-Latin texts begins to expand its coverage beyond
the latter of these chronological boundaries.
The texts which are incorporated are selected in function of the state of current research. Independent
research is then undertaken to verify facts relating to the text, such as
the veracity of the authorial attribution or the dating. Further, errors in word-forms from the printed version are corrected.
The database comprises almost all works published in the Corpus
Christianorum, both Series
Latina and Continuatio Mediaeualis,
the literature from Antiquity Bibliotheca scriptorum Romanorum
Teubneriana and 600,000 words for the modern period. An important number of works have been
taken from other collections such as the Corpus
Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Sources
Chrétiennes, Migne’s Patrologia,
Acta Sanctorum, Analecta Hymnica
Medii Aevi.
CLCLT is the world's leading database for Latin texts. It
contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus,
240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It
covers all the works from the classical period, the most important
patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as
well as works of recentior latinitas. The complete works of writers
such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of
Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas à Kempis can thus be
consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum
series and from many other leading editions.
Each
search-query shows the results in the context of a sentence, but from here
the user can consult the whole text of the work.
Each
work kept has been the subject of a historical and philological
examination and is accompanied by a didactical 'memento' which supplies
chronological, bibliographical, critical and statistical information. All
relevant Clavis Patrum Latinorum entries have been fully
integrated.
In
total, CLCLT contains over 47 million Latin words.
The Library of
Latin Texts is produced under the academic supervision of Professor
Em. Paul Tombeur of the Centre « Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium
» (CTLO). CLCLT 1 to 4 have been developed in
collaboration with Cetedoc (see top). |
Present version: :
CLCLT-5
(March 2002) ; on 3 CD-Roms |
Updates: every 2 to 3
years |
| Price: on demand, different prices according to the status of the
client, varying for CLCLT-5 from EUR 3750 to EUR 5000. Discounts for
subscribers to CC. |
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibility: |
A
database that will give access to the total corpus of Occitan literature
Occitan is a language whose prestige over three
centuries is universally recognised in the area of Romance studies. It
thus became a priority to consider the feasibility of inputting all texts
into computer so that it would become possible to search for any possible
word-form. The Concordance of
Medieval Occitan brings together the entire corpus of Occitan texts
from the first attestations to the end of the fifteenth century.
The approach was to divide the database into three
tranches. The first tranche (COM-1) will contain the poetry of the
troubadours, taken from critical editions. The second tranche will give
non-lyric texts in verse and the third tranche will give non-lyric texts
in prose. A further tranche consists of a database containing the totality
of each of the troubadour chansonniers,
with, alongside the edited interpretative version of the poems, a
semi-diplomatic rendering which respects the word breaks and other
elements as found in the manuscript.
The database of texts is present on the disk in
addition to the pre-prepared concordance so that there is facility to move
from the listed occurrences to the particular text which is being
targeted.
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| Present version: :
COM-1 |
Updates: |
| Price: EUR |
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibilities:
Institut de Recherche et
d'Histoire des Textes (Paris) and the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (Collegeville,
Minnesota) |
900,000
incipits covering Latin literature from the Pre-classical Age to the
Renaissance.
The incipit
or first words of a work, by virtue of its invariability, is the identity
card of a text. In medieval library inventories, where attributions of
authorship and title of a work were singularly unstable, the citation of
the first words of a text was already consecrated as one of the surest
means to identify it.
In
Principio
is aimed at all those scholars and libraries interested in the writers,
texts and manuscripts of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It is an
inevitable tool when studying or publishing a particular text or to make
an inventory of manuscripts.
The
collaborating institutes, on the one hand the Institut de Recherche et
d’Histoire des Textes (Paris) and on the other hand the Hill Monastic
Manuscript Library (Collegeville, Minnesota), both have a long tradition
in building up incipit card files and have complementary files. The
electronic database has also been enriched with valuable material from
other collections such as the Repertorium
Biblicum Medii Aevi
and the Thesaurus Musicarum
Latinarum.
Recently
a contract has been signed with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in
Paris to further develop the database. |
Present version: In Principio-9
(march 2002);
on 1 CD-Rom |
Updates: yearly, approximately 100,000 new incipits with
each new release ; |
| Price: EUR 5500; EUR 4900 when a standing order is taken |
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
Check out the In Principio Home Page at http://www.csbsju.edu/hmml/incipit/inprin.html..
| Editorial responsibility:
International Medieval
Institute, University of Leeds |
The
leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (450–1500).
The
International Medieval Bibliography
was founded in 1967 to provide a comprehensive, current bibliography of
articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay
collections or Festschriften) worldwide. The IMB now comprises
300.000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and
location, and provide full biblographical records.
A
unique worldwide network of fifty teams ensures regular coverage of 4.500
periodicals and a total of over 5.000 miscellany volumes. The database
includes 120.000 index terms, classified into six types.
New
features of IMB 2002 for both CD-ROM and Online
 |
25.000
new entries on-stream during 2002, each entry fully classified |
|
enhanced
search possibilities: |
|
hierarchical
index searching by periods or centuries |
|
hierarchical
index searching of a controlled vocabulary of subjects |
|
separate
index of places and regions |
|
separate
index of persons and texts (available during 2002) |
|
separate
index of manuscript shelfmarks |
|
multilingual
thesauruses to support searches (for places and persons who are known
under different forms) |
|
restricting
searches by the languages of the articles (for Dutch, English, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish) |
IMB
on CD-ROM
A
CD-ROM version has been available since 1995. The present version (IMB-7)
covers the years 1967-1999. Updates are scheduled every year.
IMB-Online
The
IMB is also available online. More information is available at the
BREPOLiS information pages.
|
| Present version: IMB-7
(march 2002); on 1 CD-Rom |
Updates: yearly |
| Price: EUR
2125 for subscribers to the printed
IMB |
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
Find more serial bibliographies at http://www.lib.muohio.edu/serial-bibliographies/.
| Editorial responsibility: |
An
indispensable encyclopedia for medievalists and scholars of various other
disciplines covering the period from 300 to 1500 for the whole of Europe
and parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
For many years, the Lexikon des Mittelalters has proved to
be an indispensable resource for scholars of various disciplines. Started
in 1977, the project was completed in 1999 with a full volume comprising
indices to the work. The encyclopaedia deals with all branches of Medieval
Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of
Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. The ancient roots of
Western Culture, as well as neighbouring cultures, such as the Byzantine,
the Araic and the Jewish worlds, occupy a prominent position in the
encyclopaedia.
The Lexikon not only excels in
its wide
range of issues but also in its depth:areas of scholarship as diverse as
philosophy, theology, history of science, literature and art are
thoroughly examined. In addition, the encyclopaedia focuses upon specific
aspects of everyday culture, living, housing and working conditions. This
standard reference work for medievalists with almost 36,700 entries has
been made accessible in an electronic format. The CD-ROM not only allows
full text search, it also enables users, by means of easy to handle search
functions, to search within individual lists of entries, specified
topic-areas and indices. The Lexikon des Mittelalters contains
almost 36.700 entries referring among which biographical entries,
historical figures and families, place names, abbeys, territories,
countries, peoples, empires, etc.
Query results can be printed out and saved to disk. Thus, the Lexikon
des Mittelalters is a modern and easy-to-handle working tool, that
will certainly highlight the immense value of this standard reference in
an entirely new way.
The CD-ROM is a publication of Metzler Verlag. |
| Present version: Lexma
2001 |
Updates: / |
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Price:
EUR 873
|
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibility: |
The Conservation Archive of an
Internationally-important Romanesque Sculptural Frieze
This CD-ROM will document the
conservation of the internationally-important Romanesque Sculptural Frieze
of the west façade of Lincoln Cathedral for the period 1961-1994. It makes
available specialised and complex multi-media archives to the academic and
conservation communities. The electronic archive has been produced by Dr
Phillip Lindley, head of the Department of Fine Art at the University of
Leicester, assisted by the Cathedral’s Dean and Chapter and their
conservators. Financial support from the cathedral, English Heritage, the
Universities of Leicester and Loughborough and Brepols Publishers has
enabled this unrivalled documentary and visual archive to become a coherent,
searchable whole.
The sculpted frieze was, at the
start of the current conservation campaign, in a perilous state. Major
losses had already occurred this past century and without conservation there
would have been further, potentially catastrophic, structural failures. The
Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral, and their advisors, consultants and
employees, have been confronted with many difficult and potentially
controversial decisions. This electronic archive documents the painstaking
evolution of policy (in the light of their conservation team’s own
discoveries and the development of wider public policy and scholarly or
technological input). As a result, the consultations and experiments at
Lincoln are essential background reading for anyone who is concerned with
sculpture conservation or with the academic study of medieval sculpture. The
archive demonstrates vividly that all art historians must be familiar with
the conservation history of their subject.
This electronic archive records
all the documentation, with illustrations, of this conservation programme
from its outset to the end of 1994. By making all this documentation
available, the Dean and Chapter have demonstrated a unique and remarkable
readiness to provide public access – for the first time for any English
cathedral (indeed, probably for any historic building) – to the entire
process of conservation and policy formation. |
| Present version: Scheduled
for 2002 |
Updates: |
| Price: on
demand |
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibility: Monumenta Germaniae
Historica (Munich) (director: R. Schieffer) |
A
corpus of historical works, charters, legal texts, letters, political
texts, and literature from the European Middle Ages.
The Monumenta
Germaniae Historica was founded in 1819 by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlands ältere Geschichtskunde. It is
without doubt one of the most prestigious editorial undertakings for the
critical publication of medieval historical texts. The MGH has established for all Western scholarship a standard for
critical editions.
The MGH is
divided into five major series and into thirty-three subseries covering a
wide range of medieval historical documentation. The search-software
allows the user to distinguish the major series, namely the Scriptores,
Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae and Antiquitates.
eMGH-2
contains a selection of texts from different series but offers the
majority of the texts that have been edited in the subseries, Auctores
Antiquissimi and Scriptores
rerum Merovingicarum. From the former are included works of Salvianus
Massiliensis, Eugippius, Eutropius, Landolfus Sagax, Paul the Deacon,
Victor Vitensis, Corippus Africanus, Venantius Fortunatus, Iordanes,
Ausonius, Symmachus, Avitus Viennensis, Ennodius, Apollinaris Sidonius,
Faustus, Ruricius, Claudius Claudianus, Cassiodorus, Merobaudes,
Dracontius, Eugenius Toletanus, Aldhelm. From the
Scriptores rerum
Merovingicarum the user will find works of Gregory of Tours,
Fredegar, and the complete Passiones
vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici. Other works that are available
are the Epistulae Bonifatii et Lulli,
Concilia aevi Saxonici et Salici,
the Diplomata Ludovici II and the
Epistulae of Peter
Damian. eMGH-2 contains
therefore more than 400 works. |
| Present version: eMGH-3
(2002) |
Updates: Next update scheduled for
2003. |
| Price: EUR |
Network price: on demand |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibility: |
A
remarkable collections of photographs from thousands of churches in
England.
This multi-volume series of cd-roms on English
Parish Churches and their craftmanship is based around the collection of
photographs taken by Dr. Donna Chaproniere and now at the History of Art
Department of the University of Leicester, England.
The
photographs range from general views of churches in the landscape, to
exteriors and interiors of churches, details of roofs, fonts, stained
glass etc.. They cover both medieval and post-medieval works and show the
enormous range of objects, styles and media to be found inside and outside
English parish churches.
Within
its particular scope, the combined images and analytical descriptions of
the data warrant comparison with Pevsner’s famous postwar surveys.
Accompanying each photograph is an explanatory
caption; an introductory section provides information on the geological
and economic significance of the area and a comprehensive bibliography is
offered. The collection can be accessed by tour, village, map or
searching.
The academic direction is provided by Dr Phillip
Lindley, and the user interface (accessible to both PC and Mac users) by
Alex Moseley of the University of Leicester.
The first release covers southern East
Anglia, the churches of the chalklands of Suffolk and parts of Essex and
Camrbidgeshire. 1500 photographs and descriptions for 300 churches are
provided. The second release covers the Fenlands and the Wash, that is
parts of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
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| Present version:
EPC-1 |
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| Price:
EUR 200 |
Network price:
on demand |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibility: |
Even before the invention of the printing
press the written text became essential both for the intellectual
development and the everyday activities of people. In various fields, the
Sonderforschungsbereich 231 at Münster, has analysed these processes.
During a 13-year period programme fifteen different workgroups have
analysed the changes taking place from a society based almost exclusively
on oral communication to a culture which relies decisively on the written
word.
An electronic publication offers the possibility of
combining pictures, graphs, charts, texts and verbal explanations. Sixteen
different genres or milieux are demonstrated on this CD-ROM: Bible
translation, Episcopal Chronicles, Codex Illumination, World Chronicles,
Law Books, Late Medieval German Single Sheets, 14th Century North Italian
Account Books, Private Contracts in High and Late Medieval Italy, Notaries
and writing in North Germany, Rapiaries (Medieval Notebooks), Middle
English Courtesy Books, Dictionnaries in the High and Late Middle Ages,
Town Chronicles, Literacy and Changes in Communication at the Law Courts,
the Use of Vernacular in Medieval Teaching, the 14-Century 'Family Books'
of Tuscan Merchants. |
| Present version: Scheduled
for 2002 |
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| Price:
|
Network price:
on demand |
| Demo: |
| Editorial responsibility: Ecole Française de Rome |
Ut
per litteras apostolicas...
Letters
of the Popes from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.
This database will be the electronic version of the famous Registres
et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siècle (32 vols., Rome 1883 ff.) and
the Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe siècle (48 vols., Rome 1899
ff.). The electronic corpus will gather all the material of the printed
volumes (at present they consist partly of summaries of letters and partly
the complete texts) as far as the litterae
communes are concerned. The following updates intend to complete the
information gradually by adding the entire text of papal letters and by
including the litterae secretae
as well.
The publication will offer an impressive amount of
searchable data on various aspects of medieval society: ecclesiastical
institutions, the clergy, the Papal States, secular political powers,
jurisdiction, taxation, administration and finance, secular society,
religious life, education, intellectual and artistic life, the economy,
warfare, violence and crime, the environment and natural disasters, and
insights into daily life.
The project is an initiative of the Ecole
française de Rome and the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des
Textes at Paris.
The first release, dealing with the
pontificates of John XXII, Benedict XII and Urban V, will contain about 12
million words, and will become available both on CD-ROM and online as part
of Brepolis.
Users
will be enabled to search on each word in the text of the
analysis/transcription but could also search by (sub)type of letter, by
author, place, pontificate year, date etc. |
| Present version: First release
March 2002. |
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| Price: EUR |
Network price:
on demand |
| Demo: |
|
Editorial responsibility:
Commission Royale d'Histoire -
Comité national du dictionnaire du Latin médiéval - Cetedoc |
Over
6,000 charters and 13,000 analysed documents representing a mine of
information for studying the medieval history of Western Europe.
The Thesaurus
Diplomaticus includes A. Wauters’s monumental work, the Table
Chronologique des Chartes et Diplômes imprimés concernant l’histoire
de la Belgique, providing textual and chronological analysis of all
the edited pre-1350 charters which deal with Belgium but also unedited
documents kept as originals or as copy. It contains the complete
transcribed text of all those charters that have been studied within the
Belgian Dictionnaire du Latin médiéval
Project and photographs of the original documents whenever available.
The publication of this database with material
coming from various sources results from a consortium that was established
in 1983 to upgrade Wauters’s material and make it more accessible. The
group linked the Belgian Commission Royale d’Histoire, the Belgian Comité
national du Dictionnaire du Latin médiéval and Cetedoc at the Université
Catholique de Louvain à Louvain-la-Neuve.
The first part of the database, ‘the diplomatic
file’, contains descriptive analyses of each document in the database.
This analysis covers names of the authors, recipients and other parties to
the act, dates mentioned in or attributed to the document, place-names
etc. The second part, ‘the text file’, contains the complete
searchable text of all the charters studied as part of the Dictionnaire
du Latin médiéval Project. The third part is the ‘Image File’
containing photographs of the original charter and offers a wonderful
resource for palaeographic purposes.
The Thesaurus
Diplomaticus will expand its chronological and geographical range in
the future. On the one hand it will treat charters post-1200 and later and
it will extend Wauters’s own 1350 limit and move from there into the
early modern period. On the other hand it will break away from using
modern Belgian boundaries to historically coherent borders, following
those of the principalities and bishopries of the southern Low Countries.
The Thesaurus
Diplomaticus has
been developed in
collaboration with Cetedoc (see top). |
| Present version: TD-1 (1998) |
Updates
:
irregular |
| Price: EUR |
Network price: upon request |
| Demo: |
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