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Wed Jun 16, 2010
These are some of the recent changes in the Regnum Francorum Online database application.
Example:
Map of Roman province Pannonia, showing roads, evidence of places in itineraries and milestones. The map is centered around Lake Balaton in modern Hungary.
The idea of listing all the original charters of European rulers during the Middle Ages, and create direct links to charters available online was first implemented at Abbildungsverzeichnis der europäischen Kaiser- und Königsurkunden.
Identifiers and links to pictures and meta-data of coins in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett (SMB). Example: Denier issued under the reign of Charlemagne (793-814), mint is Köln (Cologne), + CARLVS REX FR | + CO+LONIA (C-R-L-S).
Tue May 11, 2010
Usually map-layers in Regnum Francorum Online are drawn from evidence in primary sources, classified as events.
We are now introducing layers based on seondary sources, i.e. maps found in literature.
First out are a couple of maps showing (1) the influence of Irish monasteries in the Merovingian Frankish kingdom,
and (2) the foundation of monasteries by the Merovingian and Carolingian rulers and other magnates (up to ca. 750). The layers are listed in the maps section pressing the layers button 
. Other layers will be added later.
Click this link to load the map-layer of Irish monasteries and the Irish influence on monastic life (590- ca. 730) (the labels are in German).
Wed Feb 17, 2010
The database Regnum Francorum Online will be presented at the conference New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion, Center for Geographical Analysis, Harvard University, Boston 12-13 Mars 2010. Presentation 
Conference program
Presentation Abstract
Regnum Francorum Online. Interactive maps and sources of early medieval Europe 614 - 918.
Regnum Francorum Online is a geospatial database with the aim of referencing historical events in time and space, by agency and institution and present the data about these events on interactive maps. This far, more than 14.000 events have been referenced in time, by location (place of event, property, institution), agents and various properties of the event and its components, constituting metadata that are available for further temporal and spatial analysis. Short quotes from source documents, describing the status and offices of agents, character of property, church institutions and church patrons are also maintained. The events are connected to their evidence in full-text source documents, maintained in digital libraries and databases on the internet, such as the digital Monumenta Germania historica, Regesta Imperii, Gallica, Bibliotheque nationale de France, and Google Books. This is enabled by unique and persistant identifiers of these editions and the possibility to even reference individual documents by page or number, in terms of direct linking or embedding. Most of the surviving documents from this period relates to church institutions which makes it especially suitable for analysis of the cultural, economical and political role of monasteries and bishoprics in the early medieval society. For instance, the database application can produce maps of the property development of monasteries by time and origin of property and the distributions of church patrons, at any given time and political context, within the limits of the database. Comparison can be made to distribution of fiscal property and economic activity like minting. A number of background maps have also been digitized that enables further comparison of monasteries with church provinces, political territories and road network.
Sat Dec 12, 2009
Part 2 of Les monnaies royales de France sous la race Carolingienne by Ernest Gariel, Strasbourg 1884, page 161 and onwards, with planches XIV and onwards, is available online at Google Books. This publication contains a catalog of different coins, known at the time this book was published, from Louis the Pious and his successors before Hugo Capet. This book is believed to be in the public domain since the author has been dead for more than 70 years. It is available at Google Books from inside USA, or via a US-proxy server. The book is also available from the Internet Archive, scanned by University of Toronto, but without the planches. This far, I have extracted the images of the coins issued by Louis the Pious (planches XIV-XX), in all 155 coins, and added the descriptions to the Mint map-layer. Some time ago, I added the coins issued by king Pepin the Short, Charlemagne and Carloman (768-771) from part 1 of this catalog. The quality of the scans are not too bad, but the 50 coins from the catalog mentioned in the previous post (Veuillin 1871), in part the same coins as Gariels catalog, are sharper.
I believe this book can be of interest for a wider audience, so I descided to upload the two parts of the book to my server, making it available worldwide. Here is an overview of the different digital copies:
Ernst Gariel (d. 1884). Les monnaies royales de France sous la race Carolingienne, Strasbourg 1884. Library of Congress Online Catalog
Part 1. page 1-160, planches I-XIII. Pepin, Carloman and Charlemagne.
8,416 KB:
Goggle Books USA, Internet Archive (same as Google), Regnum Francorum Online (same as Google).
Part 2. Louis the Pious and his successors, page 161-361, planches XIV-LXVIII.
19,102 KB:
Google Books USA, Internet Archive (Note: without the planches!), Regnum Francorum Online (same as Google)
Tue Dec 8, 2009
In the Mint map-layer, there are 50 new drawings of coins issued by emperor Louis the Pious (814-840). The drawings have been extracted from Notice sur un dépot de monnaies carlovingiennes découvert en juin 1871 aux environs du Veuillin, Commune d'Apremont, Département du Cher, by Bompois, Hubert Ferdinand. This publication is available from the Internet Archive, and from the original scanner Google Books. The latter can only be accessed from inside USA or through a US-proxy server. To see the drawings at this website, load the Mint-layer or the Louis the Pious-layer.
Freely available source-editions and literature concerning early medieval Europe are being collected and geo-referenced. Currently there are more than 3300 links to online sources. These are the latest 10 additions.
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Ulrich Nonn
added Tue Aug 31, 2010
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Hans-Walter Klewitz (1937)
added Mon Aug 30, 2010
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Hans Eugen Meyer (1921)
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Elisabeth Magnou-Nortier (1984)
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Wolfgang Haubrichs (1995)
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Reinhold Kaiser (1976)
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This is a website about visualizing early medieval Europe 614-840 on maps. Here you will find interactive maps of the Frankish kingdom, activities of Merovingian and Carolingian kings, donations of the nobility and development of the property of monasteries and other institutions. The locations on the map are clickable and connected to quotes from, and references to primary sources and literature. Simply click on a location and discover which sources are available on this site and on the internet for a particular city. There is an overview of the interactive maps in the Gallery section, intended as a starting point if you are new to this website.
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