This blog post is about annates, whose payments are a frequent occurrence in the Repertorium Germanicum (RG). In the following, some results of our study are presented, as well as methods for data collection and evaluation using network analysis.
Digital tools are needed which can uniquely identify the characteristic structure of each type of register. For this purpose, we use ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) after an appropriate research and comparison of tools. We have also developed a grammar for the evaluation of the RG's registers. This may sound very theoretical at first. Therefore, in our next blog post, we will demonstrate with an example how the rules in our Antlr grammar are structured. Using the example of annates payments in the third volume of the RG, we will introduce and explain the individual components of the corresponding rule.
Last week on our blog we covered the payments of annates. Annates were paid to the Roman Curia after a claimant had obtained a prebend. This post will show various examples of the acquisition of prebends as well as the local concentration of prebends. Furthermore, the career paths of scholars who studied at the University of Erfurt in the late Middle Ages will be presented. The basis of this study is an extensive prosopographical investigation of more than 700 late medieval lawyers (Gramsch 2003), whose personal catalogue was transferred to a database within the framework of our project and further investigated with network-analytical methods.
