http://www.francia.ahlfeldt.seNews about interactive maps and online sources concerning early medieval Europe - the Merovingian and Carolingian kingdom of the Franksen© 2009 Johan Åhlfeldtinfo@francia.ahlfeldt.seinfo@francia.ahlfeldt.seWed, 10 Mar 2010 08:29:13 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=74 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. 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. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:39:24 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=72 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) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:33:08 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=70 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. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:31:47 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=69Gallia christiana: in provincias ecclesiaticas distributa, tomus quartus. 1728. scanned by google Books books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJTable of contents: Provincia Lugdunensis Prima, cujus metropolis Lugdunum [Lyon] books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA9 Archiepiscopi Lugdunenses. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA12 De abbatiis diocesis Lugdunensis. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA215 Ecclesia Augustodunensis. [Autun] books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA311 Ecclesia Lingonensis. [Langres] books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA508 Ecclesia Cabilonensis. [Chalon-sur-Saône] books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA868 Ecclesia Matisconensis. [Mâcon] books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1046 Instrumenta ad tomum IV. Galliae Chrisianae in provincias ecclesiasticas distributae spectantia. Quae pertinent ad provinciam Lugdunensem. Ecclesiae Lugdunensis instrumenta books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA18 Instrumenta ad ecclesiam Eduensem spectantia. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA39 Instrumenta Lingonensis ecclesiae. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA131 Instrumenta ecclesiae Cabilonensis. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA225 Instrumenta ecclesiae Matisconensis. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA264 Glossarium vocum barbararum, corruptarum et exoticarum, quae in hoc quarto tomo continentur. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PT5 Index generalis books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PT11 Index archiepiscoporum books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PT25 Index episcoporum books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PT26 Index praepositorum et decanorum. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PT29 Index abbatum et priorum. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PT31 Index abbatissarum. books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PT44 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:02:27 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=68 The possibility to embed documents from Google Books inside an IFRAME or DIV element, was new to me when I came across this service yesterday. This is now implemented as an option when a visitor views information about sources in the sources, maps or Google maps sections of this website. Simply follow the link "Embed Google document here", when viewing detailed source information. The same restrictions on full-view documents apply here, that is, only documents published before approximately 1870 is considered to belong to the public domain outside USA. As usual Google is first in offering useful and exciting services. Just think if Gallica, dMGH or other provider of historical sources would open the possibility to embed content on external websites like this. The embedded viewer can be used statically in an IFRAME-element, or programatically (through a Java-script API) in a DIV-element. Follow this link to view Geo-referenced sources of early medieval Europe as an overlay of Google Maps, and then click on a location, for example, monastery Wissembourg in the Alsace region of France, and click the Embed Google document link on Liber donationum. Maybe too much Google for some people, but anyway, I think it's rather cool, and it says something about the dominance of Google as a provider of embedded services. For more information on how to implement the embedded viewer, follow this link. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:24:37 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=66 Monumenta Boica, volume 31, pars I: Diplomata Imperatorum Apographa (1836) is now online at Google Books. This 19th century series contains editions of medieval primary sources concerning Bavaria. The German Wikisource has a comprehensive list of URL:s to digital libraries where the individual volumes can be found, freely available for download. This particular volume contains some hard-to-find diplomas of emperor Louis the Pious (814-840). Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:46:28 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=65 Google Books has made available a number of older cartulary editions published in the 18th century, concerning Carolingian Europe. Of course, these editions are not the most recent, but the latin texts are online, for anyone to study, comfortable at ones desk. I think we can expect that Corpus traditionum Fuldensium, by Johann Friedrich Schannat (1724) will soon become available too. Lamey, Andreas (1768), Codex principis olim Laureshamensis abbatiae diplomaticus ... tomus 1, p. 1. Neugart, Trudpert. Codex diplomaticus Alemanniae et Burgundiae trans-Iuranae intra fines dioecesis Constantiensis. Tomus I. 1791 URL Pez, Bernhard. Thesaurus anecdotorum novissimus, seu veterum monumentorum praecipue ecclesiasticorum, ex germanicis potissimum bibliothecis adornata collectio recentissima, Volym 1. 1721 URL; including Codex Diplomaticus Ratisponensis, Codex Traditionum Sanct-Emmerammensium (also avialable as Traditionum Emmerammensium, in: Patrologiae cursus completus. Tomo CXXIX. Migne, 1853), and in part, Chronologico diplomaticus episcopatus Ratisbonensis. Tomus I), and Anamodi subdiaconi Ratisponensis, Traditionum sanct-Emmerammensium, Libri II. Schöttgen, Christian. Diplomatarii et Scriptores Historicæ Germanicæ medii ævi cum sigillis æri incisis opera et studio. 1753. URL Lamey, Andreas. Codex principis olim Laureshamensis abbatiae diplomaticus ex aevo maxime Carolingico diu multumque desideratus. Mannheim 1768-1770. Tomus primus, Tomus secundus, Tomus tertius. The modern edition of Codex Laureshamiensis, by Karl Glöckner (1929-1936), is available at Austrian litterature online. Schoepflin, Johann Daniel. Alsatia aevi Merovingici, Carolingici, Saxonici, Salici, Suevici diplomatica. Operis pars I. Merovingica Alsatiae diplomata et chartae. 1772. URL. This edition is also available at Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum (GDZ), who claims some kind of copyright of their digitized copy! Grandidier, Philippe-André. Histoire de l'Eglise et des évêques princes de Strasbourg. Tome I. Codex diplomaticus ecclesiae et dioecesis Argentinensis seu pieces justificatives pour servir de preuves a l'histoire des évêques et de l'eglise de Strasbourg. Siecle Merovingien. Strasbourg 1778. URL Grandidier, Philippe-André. Histoire de l'Eglise et des évêques princes de Strasbourg. Tome II. depuis l'an 817 jusqua l'an 965, suivi des pieces justificatives du siecle carlovingien. Codex diplomaticus ecclesiae et dioecesis Argentinensis seu pieces justificatives pour servir de preuves a l'histoire des évêques et de l'eglise de Strasbourg. Siecle Carlovingien. Strasbourg 1778. URL Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:51:51 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=64 I know it's a deadly sin in this context to change already established links to resources on a website, especially if they are said to be permanent. However, due to the experimental nature of this website it was necessary for the logic of some of the canonical links, to do so. Monasteries can be linked through their name, preceded by the label /monastery, as in http://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/monastery/Wissembourg. This link produce a map of evidence of property of monastery Wissembourg, located in the region Alsace, France. These URL are then translated by a resolving engine to the current technical implementation of retrieving the resources from the database. The following logic is used. Monasteries located in a city with other church institutions have an URL preceded by the city name and the monastery name, like /monastery/Gent, Saint-Bavo and /monastery/Gent, Blandinium. The reason for this is that every name must be unique. In other cases, where the monastery is the only institution in the city, the name itself is sufficient, like /monastery/Prüm. Here is a list of some recently changed URL:s with names longer than necessary according to the logic. /monastery/Wissembourg, Saint-Pierre => /monastery/Wissembourg /monastery/Prüm, Sankt Salvator => /monastery/Prüm /monastery/Saint-Omer, Saint-Bertin => /monastery/Saint-Bertin A list of valid URL:s to all monasteries are listed on this page. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:36 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=63 I'm implementing some features of the interactive maps using the Google Maps API, drawing layers (overlays) on Google base-maps. Click here if you are interested in following a work in progress exploring the advantages and disadvantages of building a historical GIS-application on top of this service from Google. Previously I experienced some problems with the web-browser Internet Explorer, but they are now solved. At this stage this implementation is highly experimental. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:20:43 GMThttp://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/news.php?cid=62 In the top menu of this website, you might have noticed a link to a blog of mine, named Early Medieval Mapping. I intend to use this blog to elaborate and discuss conceptual, methodological and technical issues regarding the development of the Regnum Francorum Online database application. I have posted two articles about using MySQL and PHP to draw interactive maps from geographical data stored in a database. There is also an article describing the aim of the blog and this historical GIS application. More articles will be added covering topics related to this website, including digitization of historical sources and literature, the semantic web, historical GIS and online mapping in general. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:04:49 GMT