Re: Major new online resource: "Medieval Lands"

In message of 6 Jun, "the_verminator@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<the_verminator@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Chris Phillips wrote:
Charles Cawley's "Medieval Lands", subtitled "A prosopography of medieval
European noble and royal families", is being hosted on the website of the
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, and the first edition of the work has
recently been made available there:
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/index.htm

This is an ambitious project, whose aim is to document the genealogy and
biographical details of European royal and noble families through a
systematic study of primary source material. The results are presented in
narrative form and are organised geographically. The files, in HTML format,
are freely available on the Foundation's website (note that some of the
files are very large and may take a while to download through slow
connections).

The geographical area covered is Europe together with adjacent regions of
Asia and Africa, and the time period is roughly 500-1500. Some secondary
works have been drawn on to provide a framework, but the emphasis is on the
extraction of evidence from contemporary sources. In the current version,
most data are available for Germany, Northern France, Lombardy and
Anglo-Saxon England, and for the earliest 600 years of the medieval period.
Statements not yet documented from primary sources are indicated in some
parts by [...], and in others by the absence of source citations.

Work on the project is continuing, and it is hoped to produce a more fully
documented second edition in due course. However, as it stands now the work
contains a tremendous amount of information, and I'm sure people will find
it an extremely useful resource.

Chris Phillips

Might I suggest that all data which has not been verified from primary
source material be deleted and added to the project only when it is so
verified?

Much less confusion that way as to what is and is not "real".

Quite.

But the author specifically said that he was working on Edition 2 and
would much rather not receive comments or requests about the format of
Edition 1 as that would delay him significantly. And he had firmly
decided on a recent policy change to enclose all non-primary-referenced
items in square brackets, presumably intending to implement this in
Edition 2; in this context he said (or I thought I heard him say) the
whole of the English material should be in square brackets. Though he
did say he would be glad to hear of genealogical corrections.

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