Carolingian Canon Law Project Dir. by Abigail Firey
Melodie H. Eichbauer
Reviewed by: Carolingian Canon Law Project Dir. by Abigail Firey Melodie H. Eichbauer Firey. University of Kentucky, 2006–. <http://ccl.rch.uky.edu/> According to its Home page, “The project is a searchable, electronic rendition works canon law used readers.” A number grants and contributors support the CCL: NEH Digital Humanities Start-up Grant (Level 2), ACLS Innovation Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, College Arts Sciences at Graduate School Research for Computing in Humanities. The aims map extent which texts varied manuscript tradition, identify particular points variation, clarify their transmission. also provides historical bibliographic annotation canons jurists before, during, after period. page lists compatible browsers as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera. links on left site allow user easily navigate project’s components. Contents link includes variety features. can search Latin corpus via four different options. basic option simple keyword search. advanced allows combine or exclude words, phrase. freeform complex searches that “not,” “or,” “and,” field names, parentheses. browse alphabetically along with information folio numbers, thereby allowing compare same text manuscripts. Transcriptions, second under Contents, access transcriptions organized collection manuscript. last two Contents—Conceptual Corpus, Annotations Translations—take location. This feature filter title, text, translation keyword, key word, shelfmark. scroll through pages list (if available), annotations locus, shelf mark, siglum. Essentially this section contains “every from every CCL.” Resources opens what I imagine first sentence said each fall new graduate students: “One not born knowing how study medieval law.” devoted articles, images, pertaining canons, texts, collections, manuscripts, legal concepts. [End Page 165] Links references other history websites very useful. For instance, there are primary sources, such as: Projekt Pseudoisidor, Ivo Chartres, Corpus iuris canonici (1582) glosses (UCLA Collections), civilis, Magna Carta British Library. research tools include, example: Clavis Canonum, Forum historiae iuris, Bibliographia synodalis antiqui, Roman resources edited Ernest Metzger Glasgow. Finally sites scholars institutions, Kenneth Pennington, Institut für Deutsche und Rheinische Rechtsgeschichte der Universität Bonn, Leopold Wenger Rechtsgeschichte, Max-Planck-Institut europäische Rechtsgeschichte. Individuals encouraged contribute Advisory Board will consider articles publication site. Workspaces quite literally heart project. While director, Gerhard Schmitz (Monumenta Germaniae Historica), Daniel Ziemann (University Cologne), Michael D. Elliot Toronto) listed participants, scholarly community pulse translations textual variations, contributions all made possible others. As hosts individual, password-protected store work. Scholars use workspace import copies using T-PEN (Transcription Paleographical Editorial Notation)—which records transcriber’s name date transcription—via Transcribe link. They revise reassemble however they choose then...
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