Digital History

Note: Could these be added to CKAN with the history tag?

RufusPollock: yes for many of the site summaries but it was simplest to start here on the wiki.

= Notes on history open knowledge projects =

See the Monumenta Germaniae Historica site - http://www.mgh.de - for the home of pseudoisidor, Benedictus Levita, and Polycarp projects.

Pseudoisador
A very long 9th century collection of papal councils and letters, of which about a third are inventions, and another third have been modified by the compiler. The collection exists in several manuscripts, surviving in several forms. There are no satisfactory printed editions.

This online collection derives from 4 manuscripts of great importance.

http://www.pseudoisidor.mgh.de/index.html

The main author is Karl-Georg Schon.

It has a collated text, as well as the text of a related text - Collectio Danielliana.

The site has HTML and PDF versions of the text. It has a Gnu Free Documentation license.

Benedictus Levita
A very complicated canon law text of the 9th century.

The continuing work of this online edition gives the full text of the standard edition, which is a 19th century reprint of the edition by Baluze. It gives a working state of a good deal of the text - collating against a large number of manuscripts. It provides transcriptions of a number of the sources from which Benedict worked. It gives access to some further studies on the text (including some unpublished work, and links to a wide published literature), and to accounts of the manuscripts. Editors are Gerhard Schmitz and Wilfried Hartmann.

See: http://www.benedictus.mgh.de/haupt.htm

License is unclear.

Polycarp
Polycarp is a 12th century canon law collection found in a dozen or so manuscripts.

The online edition gives a simplified text taken from the typescript of Carl Erdmann with a limited textual apparatus to record variants of the manuscripts. It provides a link the the digital text of the study by Uwe Horst giving sources and detailed commentary. The project was directed by Horst Fuhrmann.

http://www.mgh.de/datenbanken/kanonessammlung-polycarp

License is unclear.

Carolingian canon law project
Plan is to make available all legal texts that were consulted in the Carolingian world - the world of the states that were part of the Carolingian empire.

Most sophisticated conception yet attempted for online canon law historical collection.

Recent (2008) grant from the NEH in the US to develop online access to these materials. Applying for

http://www.rch.uky.edu/CCL/ http://caliban.cvve.uky.edu/CCLawwiki http://cclwork.pbwiki.com/

Main work seems to be here at the moment: http://www.rch.uky.edu/CCL/TLH.html