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Bits of Charters: Putting Carolingian Charters into a Database
Rachel Stone, King’s College [email protected]
King's College London’s digital experience
• 1987 Elite prosopography: Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
• 2000 Society-wide prosopography: Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (http://www.pase.ac.uk)
• 2005 Socio-economic data and mapping: PASE II, Profile of a Doomed Elite
• 2007 Charter-specific databases: People of Medieval Scotland (http://www.poms.ac.uk/)
6000+ charters from 768-814
What is a charter?
• A material object
• A text
• A source of information
Lichtbildarchiv älterer Originalurkunden (http://lba.hist.uni-marburg.de/lba/)
DKAR 1:169: What to mark up (1)?
Tassilo ‘had caused a monastery to be newly built in honour of the Holy Saviour within our forest at the place called Kremsmünster in the pagus of Traungau’ (in monasterium honore sancti Salvatoris infra waldo nostro loco qui dicitur Chremisa in pago nuncupante Drungaoe novo opere construerefecisset)
DKAR 1:169: What to mark up (2)?•‘the venerable abbot Fater’ (vir venerabilis Fater abbas )
•‘abbot Fater’ (Fater abbas)
•‘the said abbot Fater’ (prefatus Fater abbas)
• ‘the said abbot Fater and his successors as abbots of the said monastery of Holy Saviour’ (sepe dictus Fater abbas suique successores, qui fuerint rectores ipsius monasterii sancti Salvatoris)
What is a factoid?
‘an assertion made by the project team that a source ‘S’ at location ‘L’ states something (‘F’) about person ‘P’’
Bradley, John, and Short, Harold, 'Texts into databases: the evolving field of new-style prosopography', Literary and Linguistic Computing 20, Supplement (2005), 8
Factoid
Factoid type
Authority List
Charter
Agent (Person/Institution)
Possession
Place
has type
Simplified data structure diagram for Charlemagne’s Europe factoids
is characterized using
is evidence forhappened at
involves
involves
can be related to
Looking at data: dealing with people
Precarial grant by Wolfbold and his children to St Gall (SGA 1, 148)
Wolfbold & children (granter – lessee; additional information on persons, e.g. sex, and on relationship, e.g. Wolfbold = father of Bernegarius & Otsinda; Bernegarius & Otsinda = siblings & children of Wolfbold & Adalswinda etc.), St Gall & abbot Werdo (recipient – lender); mancipia (if named; additional information: [former] property of Wolfbold, [later] property of St Gall) (or should mancipia only be listed as objects? or as both? as both but with different data structures?); witnesses & scribe
comments from April 2012
Collating data• CHARTER TYPE/TRANSACTION TYPE
PROVISIONAL LIST• Charter type potentially overlaps with Transaction
type. POMS used Document type for different formats of documents e.g. Agreement, Charter, Inquest, Letters patent, Notitia, Papal privilege, Settlement and Transaction type for contents:
Possible categories for use, with examples (where known) of less common types
(DT) Charter (DT) Chirograph charter – two copies of charter
written on same piece of parchment and then separated, so that their edges match for checking authenticity
(DT) Letter (DT) Notitia (St Gall II-10, Manaresi 22, DK 69)
MKCHEUR: SUGGESTED INITIAL AUTHORITY LIST OF RELATIONSHIPS (version 1, 4/5/12)
Familial relationships:
POMS has category "Familial relationship". PASE has 7 categories, which seems excessive)
o Adoptive relative (Not sure how far we'll need to break this down, but there are some examples of this).
o Ancestoro Aunt (amita/matertera)o Bride/betrothed (f.) (sponsa)o Bridegroom/betrothed (m.) (sponsus)o Brother o Children (liberi)
Tassilo
Charlemagne
30 Slavs Men of Eberstalzell
Kremsmünster
12 places
Dietach &Sierning
Eberstalzell
22 possessions
Right to hold land(possession) Unconditional terms
Terms ofservice
founded
without permission of
granted
to
on
clearedland at
without permission of
clearedland at
atbelonging to
belonging to
including
including
confirms
grants
at
to
on
to
Geographical range of charter witnesses:Wendy Davies, Small Worlds: the Village Community in Early Medieval Brittany (1988)
Numbers of original charters from France: Mersiowsky, Mark. 2003. ‘Y-a-t-il une influence des actes royaux sur les actes privés du IXe siècle?’ (2003)
Monasterium.net version of Kremsmünster confirmation charter • Karolus Dei gratia Rex Francorum et Langobardorum et
Patritius Romanorum. Si petitionibus Sacerdotum vel servorum Dei, in quo nostris auribus fuerint prolatae, libenter obaudimus et eas in Dei nomine ad effectum perducimus, regiam consuetudinem exercemus et hoc nobis ad mercedem vel stabilitatem regni nostri pertinere confidimus.
• Text from
http://monasterium.net/mom/AT-StiAKr/KremsmuensterOSB/0791_I_03/charter
Data schema:from this...
...to this
Dealing with place names
DKAR 1:169
‘infra waldo nostro loco qui dicitur Chremisa’
Names in charter texts: DKAR 1:169 (plus ENN 2:2)
• Bettinbah/Petenpach/Petinpach• Allinchova/Allinchofa/Allinchhof• Liubilinbah/Liubilinpach/Livpilinpach• actum Wormacie
....
Name instances:Liubilinbah,Liubilinpach
DKAR 1:169
Place role:Location of possession
Place descriptor:locus
Medieval hierarchy:in Traungau
Name instances:Liubilinbah,Liubilinpach
DKAR 1:169
Place role:Location of possession
Place descriptor:locus
Medieval hierarchy:in Traungau
Orbis Latinus (http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html)
Name instances:Liubilinbah,Liubilinpach
Standardised medieval nameLiubilinbah*
DKAR 1:169
Place role:Location of possession
Place descriptor:locus
Medieval hierarchy:in Traungau
Name instances:Liubilinbah,Liubilinpach
Standardised medieval nameLiubilinbah*
Identified modern place:Leombach
DKAR 1:169
Place role:Location of possession
Place descriptor:locus
Medieval hierarchy:in Traungau
Certainty ofidentification:certain
Name instances:Liubilinbah,Liubilinpach
Standardised medieval nameLiubilinbah*
Identified modern place:Leombach
DKAR 1:169
Place role:Location of possession
Place descriptor:locus
Medieval hierarchy:in Traungau
Certainty ofidentification:certain
Geolocation:48.11667 / 14.08333
Modern hierarchy:Upper Austria, Austria
Name instance:Teginga
Standardised medieval nameTeginga*
MON 124
Place role:Location of possession
Place descriptor:locus
Identified modern place:Deining
Geolocation:47.95171 / 11.49745
Modern hierarchy:Bavaria, Germany
Identified modern place:Töging am Inn
Geolocation:48.26018 / 12.5846
Modern hierarchy:Bavaria, Germany
Identified modern place:Döging
Geolocation:47.96685 / 12.4934
Modern hierarchy:Bavaria, Germany
Tassilo
Charlemagne
30 Slavs Men of Eberstalzell
Kremsmünster
12 places
Dietach &Sierning
Eberstalzell
22 possessions
Right to hold land(possession) Unconditional terms
Terms ofservice
founded
without permission of
granted
to
on
clearedland at
without permission of
clearedland at
atbelonging to
belonging to
including
including
confirms
grants
at
to
on
to
Tassilo
Charlemagne
30 Slavs Men of Eberstalzell
Kremsmünster
12 places
Dietach &Sierning
Eberstalzell
22 possessions
Right to hold land(possession) Unconditional terms
Terms ofservice
founded
without permission of
granted
to
on
clearedland at
without permission of
clearedland at
atbelonging to
belonging to
including
including
confirms
grants
at
to
on
to
Tassilo
Charlemagne
30 Slavs Men of Eberstalzell
Kremsmünster
12 places
Dietach &Sierning
Eberstalzell
22 possessions
Right to hold land(possession) Unconditional terms
Terms ofservice
founded
without permission of
granted
to
on
clearedland at
without permission of
clearedland at
atbelonging to
belonging to
including
including
confirms
grants
at
to
on
to
Tassilo
Charlemagne
Men of Eberstalzell
Kremsmünster
12 places
Eberstalzell
22 possessions
Right to hold land(possession) Unconditional terms
Terms ofservice
granted
to
on
at including
confirms
grants
at
to
on
to
Tassilo
Charlemagne
Men of Eberstalzell
Kremsmünster
12 places
Eberstalzell
22 possessions
Right to hold land(possession) Unconditional terms
Terms ofservice
granted
to
on
at including
confirms
grants
at
to
on
to
Tassilo
Charlemagne
Men of Eberstalzell
Kremsmünster
12 places
Eberstalzell
22 possessions
Right to hold land(possession) Unconditional terms
Terms ofservice
granted
to
on
at including
confirms
grants
at
to
on
to
Tassilo Kremsmünster
12 places
22 possessions
Unconditional terms
grantedto
onat
Agent Name Agent Role
Tassilo Granter
Kremsmünster Recipient
...
Place Name Place Role
Leombach Location of possession
...
Possession role Object type Location Terms & conditions
Transferred Land Leombach
...
Agent Name Agent Role
Tassilo Granter
Kremsmünster Recipient
Place Name Place Role
Leombach Location of possession
Unknown 715 (Raotola)
Location of possession
...
Possession role Object type Location Terms & conditions
Transferred Land Leombach
Transferred Vineyard Unknown 715
...
Agent Name Agent Role
Charlemagne Confirmer
Kremsmünster Recipient
Men of Eberstalzell
Recipient
...
Place Name Place Role
Leombach Location of possession
Eberstalzell Location of possession
...
Possession role Object type Location Terms & conditions
Held Land Leombach
Transferred Right to hold land Eberstalzell Service to monastery
...
?
List of possessionsgiven by Tassilo inDKAR 1:169
List of possessionsgiven by Tassilo inDKAR 1:169
Flows in salesAgent 1 Agent 2
Transferred possessions
Price
Agent Name Agent Role
Agent 1 Vendor
Agent 2 Buyer
...
Possession role
Object type Quantity Location Terms & conditions
Return
Transferred Land Place 1
Price solidi 30 X
CharlemagneMen of Eberstalzell
Kremsmünster
Eberstalzell
Right to hold land(possession)
Terms ofservice
grants
at
to
on
to
Representing third-party returns
Agent 1 Agent 2 Agent 3
Transferred possessions Return
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Selected agents and places in DKAR 1:169
Tassilo
Fader
Decania of Slavs
Kremsmünster
beekeepers
Worms
Raotola
Alkoven
Leombach
Selected agents and places in DKAR 1:169
Tassilo: granter
Fader: petitioner
Decania of Slavs: object oftransaction
Kremsmünster: recipient
Beekeepers: object of transaction
Worms: location of transaction
Raotola: location of possession
Alkoven: location of possession
Leombach: locationof possession
Agents and places: generalised rules
granter
petitioner
object of transaction
recipient
object of transaction
location of transaction
location of possession
location of possession
location of possession
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