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The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts.
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Summary
Currently, the web application hosts Text Chunks that are part of Collections. The application also contains 97 Canon Witnesses (part of 7 Manuscripts) that are taken over from the LiLaC web application. We keep track of the information that is extracted from external sources (statistics). More details can be found on the bibliography page.
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Historians studying the early and high Middle Ages are acutely aware of the problematic nature of their sources. Like the sources of many other periods and regions, many of the surviving medieval western texts are written by (or at the behest of) members of the elite or clergy. As a result, they tend to paint us a picture that shows us a restricted and distorted image of the ideas and mentalities of ordinary people. Using collections of canon law (i.e. ecclesiastical or religious normative texts), the project SOLEMNE nevertheless aims to explore how ideas about social norms spread throughout medieval Western Europe (approx. 500-1200 CE). For this research, SOLEMNE approaches canonical collections as assortments of ideas.
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The Solemne application has been designed by the Technical Service Group of the Humanities Lab at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Any researcher is invited to register (via sign up). Regular researchers are able to read and search through the information that is provided.