We are proud that since 2014, when the Capitularia project came into existence, three of our colleagues have successfully completed their doctoral studies. Their dissertations, all of which cover questions of legal history and focus on the 8th and 9th century, have by now been published. The first of those three dissertations is a study […]
An einem nieselverhangenen Wochenende zum Feste des heiligen Nikolaus im Jahre 2020 wurde in einer Bonner Archivküche (das Archiv möchte aus Datenschutzgründen nicht namentlich genannt werden) im hinteren Teil eines staubigen Schrankes mit Backutensilien ein sensationeller Fund gemacht: der Cap-Cake. Alles begann mit der Idee, einen Kuchen in Form der hochmittelalterlichen Reichskrone für die alljährliche […]
December 2019 saw the publication of vol. 2 of the French-German “Hludowicus” project: Politische Kultur und Textproduktion unter Ludwig dem Frommen. Culture politique et production littéraire sous Louis le Pieux, ed by Martin Gravel and Sören Kaschke, (Relectio. Karolingische Perspektiven, 2), Ostfildern 2019 The volume includes an introduction to and translations of the Divisio Regni […]
The current issue of the american journal History Compass features an article written by two of our our project-members: Sören Kaschke and Britta Mischke, Capitularies in the Carolingian Period, in: History Compass 17 (2019) S. 1-11. The article provides an overview on the historical development and the current state of Capitulary related research. Referring to the most recent academic literature, […]
Alles neu macht der…Herbst! Der September hat für unser Projekt einige personelle Änderungen mit sich gebracht. So scheidet zum einen nach erfolgreicher Promotion über Pippin den Jüngeren und das sog. Königskapitular unser langjähriger Mitarbeiter Patrick Breternitz aus, mit dem wir ein tatkräftiges Mitglied verlieren. Für alles Geleistete sei ihm herzlich gedankt! Zum anderen verlässt unser […]
Semesterferien sind traditionell Vortragszeit und so sind auch die Mitarbeiter von Capitularia in der Welt unterwegs, um ihre Forschung zu präsentieren. Zuerst hält Britta Mischke am 6. September in Wien auf der von Thom Gobbitt organisierten Tagung “Books of Law in the very long tenth century” einen Vortrag mit dem Titel “Lupus’ Liber Legum Reconsidered”. […]
We are delighted to announce that the Capitularia website – as well as its companion, the Bibliotheca legum – has been officially approved for inclusion in the Medieval Academy of America’s Database of Medieval Digital Resources (MDR), because it meets or exceeds their standards for digital best-practices. We would like to thank the curators of […]
As is well known, Louis the Pious’ Regni divisio (BK 194) is based largely on the Divisio regnorum by Charlemagne (BK 45). Therefore transcriptions of the main manuscripts of the latter were needed as a preparatory work for the critical edition of the Regni divisio. One of only two medieval manuscript witnesses, a heavily damaged […]
Many Frankish capitularies have entered early medieval collections of Canon Law, as Valeska Koal has shown in her study Studien zur Nachwirkung der Kapitularien in den Kanonessammlungen des Frühmittelalters. A survey of Koal’s results compiled by our colleague Dominik Leyendecker is now available in our section “Resources”.
We have recently enhanced the functionality of our website: Information about the current work progress can now be easily found in a new section of the manuscript pages. This feature allows you to find all published manuscript pages and editorial changes since the first publication. The latest changes (of the last 90 days) are at […]