Link: https://corpus-synodalium.com/
Project Status: Ongoing
Throughout the later Middle Ages, bishops across Latin Christendom promulgated provincial canons and diocesan statutes to guide the clergy and instruct the faithful. Offering direct access to more than 1700 of these texts (many transcribed directly from manuscripts or rare early printings), Corpus Synodalium allows users to explore and compare these texts using a variety of simple text analysis tools (including fuzzy and faceted searches, collocation, and time series). In addition, users can look for spatial patterns within the text corpus by exporting search results to the first-ever digital atlas of the dioceses and ecclesiastical provinces of late medieval Latin Christendom. The project website also includes a working repertory of the extant synodal statutes and provincial canons from 1200-1500, which lists their date, location, issuing authority, principal sources/editions, and more.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Bibliography, Catalog, Digital Edition, Searchable Database
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Medieval content details:
Dates: 1200 - 1500
Subject: Clergy, Law, Papacy, Priests, Bishops, Canons, Religion - Institutional Church, Religious Law, Theology
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Council Proceedings, Minutes, Courts, Doctrinal, Episcopal Registers, Legal Codes, Religious Texts, Rules, Textual Evidence
Geopolitical Region: Europe
Original Language: Latin