Capitularia - Edition of the Frankish Capitularies

Capitulary of the Month March 2017: “Capitula legi Salicae addita” [BK 142]

Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch. Die Kapitularien sind in ihrer Gestalt und in ihrem Inhalt so heterogen, dass es bislang nicht gelungen ist, eine allen Ansprüchen und Einsprüchen genügende Definition zu finden. Die Capitula legi Salicae addita aus der Zeit Ludwigs des Frommen gehören zu jenen Stücken, die sich nur sehr schwer […]

New manuscript pages

As a small post-Halloween treat, here are seven manuscript pages, freshly published for the start of November: Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, theol. 1717 Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, BPL 114 London, British Library, Cott. Titus A. IV München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat. 4353 München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat. 4639 München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat. 18583 Vatikan, […]

New publication

The first volume of the new edition of the Frankish capitularies has now been published! © AWK/Engel-Albustin Its two parts contain 56 numbers by Louis the Pious and his son Lothar I from the years 814-840. The Latin text of the capitularies is accompanied by a critical apparatus and commentary, but also – for the […]

Dissertation Project on the Epistolary Culture in the early Middle Ages

We welcome a new guest from China, who introduces himself and his PhD project: My name is Xuke Wang, a PhD student from the Department of History at the Peking University. My research topic is “The Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval Europe: A Study on the Epistolae Sancti Bonifatii et Lulli.” Using the letters and […]

A chapter by Charlemagne in a Computus manuscript

Dass man zuweilen in Kontexten auf Kapitel aus Kapitularien stößt, in denen man sie nicht erwarten würde, davon zeugt die Handschrift Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, 477 (461). Und dass man in Kontexten auf einen Kapitularientext aufmerksam gemacht wird, in denen man es nicht erwarten würde, davon zeugt diese Handschrift ebenfalls. Auf einer dem früh- und hochmittelalterlichen […]

Conference on Legal Manuscripts in Cologne

On 16-17 September, an international conference on legal manuscripts organized by Stefan Esders (Berlin), Shigeto Kikuchi (Tokyo), Karl Ubl (Cologne) and the Capitularia team will take place in Cologne: Legal manuscripts in the Frankish world and the transformation of early medieval legal cultures (8th-11th centuries). This is the second part of the final conference of […]

Landed with us …

In August, two of our office chairs will receive new occupants: Franziska Lingk joins the Capitularia project team as our new student assistant, and Prof. Dr. Shigeto Kikuchi will be our guest again for two months, as he was last year. Prof. Kikuchi was recently awarded the Imperial Prize as well as the Japan Academy […]

Capitularia goes IMC Leeds 2024

This coming week sees the 31st edition of the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. As in previous years, the Capitularies Project will again be contributing to this year’s event. 1 July, 7 – 8 pm: ANNUAL EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE LECTURE: MORE THAN CANON LAW: COLLECTING AND USING CANONES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE (Language: English) Steffen […]

New manuscript pages

The following manuscript pages were recently published: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat. 19414 München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat. 29555/3 New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, M. 642 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5095 Sankt Petersburg, Rossijskaja Nacional’naja Biblioteka, Q. v. II. 11 Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. Lat. 421 Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Rh. hist. 28 Furthermore, […]

Welcome to Cologne!

In addition to Jiayu Dang, who will be a guest here in Cologne until November this year (see the blog post from February), we are delighted to welcome another guest at the University of Cologne’s Institute of History since the beginning of the month: Dai Guo. Dai Guo is a Chinese student who is pursuing […]

A puzzling chapter on Immunity in the manuscript Paris, BnF, Lat. 4613

Die italienische Rechtssammlung der Handschrift Paris, lat. 4613 (10. Jh., Italien; Sigle bei Mordek: P5), in der die Leges Langobardorum mit Kapitularien aus den Regierungszeiten Karls des Großen bis Ludwigs II. zusammengestellt wurden, ist ein wichtiger Überlieferungszeuge der fränkischen Herrschererlasse mit einigen wertvollen Unikaten (z.B. BK 25, 33 oder 96). Bedauerlicherweise sind mehrere Lagen verlorengegangen […]