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Bits of Charters: Putting Carolingian Charters into a Database

Rachel Stone, King’s College [email protected]

http://www.charlemagneseurope.ac.uk

http://www.charlemagneseurope.ac.uk/

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/)

http://www.pase.ac.uk/

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/)

http://lba.hist.uni-marburg.de/lba/

Codice diplomaticodella Lombardiamedievale (http://cdlm.unipv.it/)

http://cdlm.unipv.it/

Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de/index.php)

http://www.cei.lmu.de/index.php

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


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


DKAR 1:169




Orbis Latinus (http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html)

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html


Standardised medieval nameLiubilinbah*

DKAR 1:169






Identified modern place:Leombach

DKAR 1:169




Certainty ofidentification:certain



Identified modern place:Leombach

DKAR 1:169




Certainty ofidentification:certain

Geolocation:48.11667 / 14.08333

Modern hierarchy:Upper Austria, Austria

Name instance:Teginga

Standardised medieval nameTeginga*

MON 124



Identified modern place:Deining

Geolocation:47.95171 / 11.49745

Modern hierarchy:Bavaria, Germany

Identified modern place:Töging am Inn

Geolocation:48.26018 / 12.5846


Identified modern place:Döging

Geolocation:47.96685 / 12.4934


Tassilo

Charlemagne


Kremsmünster

12 places

Dietach &Sierning

Eberstalzell

22 possessions


Terms ofservice

founded


granted

to

on

clearedland at


clearedland at

atbelonging to

belonging to

including

including

confirms

grants

at

to

on

to

Tassilo

Charlemagne


Kremsmünster

12 places

Dietach &Sierning

Eberstalzell

22 possessions


Terms ofservice

founded


granted

to

on

clearedland at


clearedland at

atbelonging to

belonging to

including

including

confirms

grants

at

to

on

to

Tassilo

Charlemagne


Kremsmünster

12 places

Dietach &Sierning

Eberstalzell

22 possessions


Terms ofservice

founded


granted

to

on

clearedland at


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


Terms ofservice

granted

to

on

at including

confirms

grants

at

to

on

to

Tassilo

Charlemagne

Men of Eberstalzell

Kremsmünster

12 places

Eberstalzell

22 possessions


Terms ofservice

granted

to

on

at including

confirms

grants

at

to

on

to

Tassilo

Charlemagne

Men of Eberstalzell

Kremsmünster

12 places

Eberstalzell

22 possessions


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

...


Tassilo Granter




Unknown 715 (Raotola)

Location of possession

...


Transferred Land Leombach

Transferred Vineyard Unknown 715

...


Charlemagne Confirmer


Men of Eberstalzell

Recipient

...



Eberstalzell Location of possession

...


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 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

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object of transaction

location of transaction

location of possession



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