Romana Repertoria Online

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Romana Repertoria Online / Roman Repertories Online (RRO)
Publication platform
languages 3 language versions (including German)
http://www.romana-repertoria.net/

The Romana Repertoria Online / Roman Repertories Online ( RRO ) is a cross-epoch and interdisciplinary online publication platform for databases of historical cultural studies. The aim of the RRO is to bundle cultural studies databases and make them centrally accessible. Scientific communication is to be further developed and intensified on the basis of the open access principle.

Since the RRO is only a publication environment for the individual formats, they can keep their partially established names. Both the already completed and the work in progress database projects of the German Historical Institute Rome and its cooperation partners are presented on the platform.

Initiator, sponsorship and cooperation

The initiator of the RRO is the historian Michael Matheus . The RRO is published by the German Historical Institute in Rome , which is part of the Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes Abroad . In addition to the institutes of the Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes abroad, other cooperation partners of the DHI Rome are available to the non-commercially developed and therefore independent program package of the RRO. The DHI works with the Bavarian State Library in Munich on issues relating to long-term archiving.

technical basics

The RRO offers a bilingual user interface and is operated on the basis of the "DENQ - Digital Editions of Modern Sources" and its XML database system. The spectrum of databases made accessible by the RRO ranges from relatively simply structured relational databases to complex XML-based systems. In the future, networking with other technologies and online offers will be targeted. The technical project support is carried out by Jörg Hörnschemeyer and Jan-Peter Grünewälder.

Content

The RRO comprises databases on historical topics from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern era and aspects spanning various epochs, as well as music history. 9 databases are currently activated:

  • RG Online - Repertorium Germanicum
    The Repertorium Germanicum (RG), which dates back to a project by the director of the Prussian Historical Institute from 1890 to 1892 and later Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ludwig Quidde , collects all "German" subjects from all Vatican registers and cameras from the Great Schism to the Reformation (1378 –1517), whereby the processing has now flourished until 1484.
  • RPG Online - Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum
    The opening of the archive of the Pönitentiaria , the highest penal authority, in the 1980s made it possible in 1992 to create the new series of the Repertorium Pönitentiariae Germanicum (RPG) under the direction of Ludwig Schmugge . The RPG lists the full text of the supplicas addressed to the penitentiary that concern people, churches and places of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Retro-conversion and digitization of the libretti sub-inventory
    The German Research Foundation (DFG) enables the German Historical Institute Rome and the Bavarian State Library in Munich to digitally index the libretto collection of the music history department of the DHI Rome. In 1979 the German Research Foundation made it possible to acquire this libretti collection from private ownership. It includes rare text books of operas, oratorios, cantatas and festival music from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which, among other things, almost completely document the early phase of public opera performances in Venice (1637–1734).
  • German-speaking pilgrims to Rome in Goethe's time
    Santa Maria dell'Anima has been one of the central contact points for pilgrims from the northern Alpine region and the Holy Roman Empire, along with the Campo Santo Teutonico, since the late Middle Ages. As a rule, they could be accommodated and fed there for a period of up to three nights. The names of the pilgrims to Rome were usually recorded in appropriate registers. Such a name register was available - until a few years ago - for the period from 1778 to 1819, with most of the entries dating from the 1780s. In the meantime, however, this source must be considered lost. Thanks to older black-and-white images, the pilgrim directory could be reconstructed and transferred to an online database.
  • Online edition Eugenio Pacelli 1917–1929
    The opening of all files from the pontificate of Pius XI. In the Vatican Secret Archives 2003 and 2006, around 6,500 nunciature reports, which Eugenio Pacelli , later Pius XII, sent to Rome between 1917 and 1929 during the twelve years of his activity in Germany, are available to scholars and the public in a critical online edition close.
  • Online-Edition Cesare Orsenigo 1930–1939
    The reports of the Nuncio Cesare Orsenigo from the year of the National Socialist “seizure of power”, now fully published for the first time and provided with a scientific commentary in German, form one of the most important source corpora on the question of the relationship between Roman and Roman numerals. Catholic Church, Papacy and National Socialism. The edition for the year 1933 contains around 200 documents, in addition to the reports of the nuncio also numerous instructions from Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli to the nuncio in Berlin. In the years to come, the edition is to be gradually expanded to include reports from the years 1930–1932 and 1934–1939.
  • Presence of German military units in Italy 1943–1945
    The database registers those Italian places (towns, municipalities, villages, hamlets, farmsteads, crossroads) where it can be proven that German troops or units were present between 1943 and 1945.
  • Bibliographic information on the latest history of Italy
    The bibliographic information on the latest history of Italy has been part of the services provided at the German Historical Institute Rome for German and international specialist studies in the field of modern history since 1974. They record new publications on the history of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that have appeared in Italian.
  • Inscription corpus of Santa Maria dell'Anima
    The part of the inscriptions of the Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima and the associated buildings of the former pilgrims' hospital and today's priestly college, initially exclusively published digitally, contains the annotated edition of 120 inscriptions from the Middle Ages and early modern times up to 1559.

In preparation are:

  • Musici: European musicians in Venice, Rome and Naples (1650–1750): Music, national identity and cultural exchange
    The development of previously neglected social and cultural-historical sources forms the heart of the project. In order to be able to analyze these in terms of cultural exchange and delimitation processes, a personal data repository is currently being developed on European musicians who stayed in Venice, Rome and Naples between 1650 and 1750. The database should reflect both the mobility (travel routes), the economic situation (payment and employment by patrons), cultural aspects (language skills and musical performances) and the networks of the foreign musicians in the three cities.
  • Book of the Dead of Santa Maria dell'Anima
    The manuscript, which is divided into several parts, lists those people who were associated with the Anima Hospital as members, benefactors or benefactors who were buried in the Anima Church between 1399 and 1843. Initially only in the form of brief lists of names, from 1432 onwards the manuscript usually contains the dates of death and the place of burial or the exact location of the grave monument, as well as frequently supplementary information on the life of the deceased and the design of the grave monument.

literature

  • Grünewälder, Jan-Peter and Hörnschemeyer, Jörg: Romana Repertoria - Roman Repertories. The database portal of the DHI Rome . In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 92, 2012, pp. 594–604.
  • Hörnschemeyer, Jörg: Repertorium Germanicum Online . In: Nobel Peace Prize and basic historical research. Ludwig Quidde and the development of the curial register tradition , ed. by Michael Matheus, Berlin 2012, pp. 605–615.
  • Hinkel, Sascha; Hörnschemeyer, Jörg; Lorenz-Filograno, Maria Pia; Judge, Elisabeth-Marie; Saloons, kirsi; Schüler, Barbara and Wolf, Hubert: The critical online edition of Eugenio Pacelli's Nunciature reports. Presentation of the project . In: Eugenio Pacelli as Nuncio in Germany - Research Perspectives and Approaches to an International Comparison , Hubert Wolf (Hg), Paderborn 2011, (pp. 23–45).
  • Wolf, Hubert; Hörnschemeyer, Jörg; Lorenz-Filograno, Maria Pia and pupils, Barbara: L'edizione critica online di rapporti delle Nunziature di Eugenio Pacelli (1917–1929) . In: Guasco, Alberto and Perin, Raffaela (eds.): Pius XI: Keywords. International Conference Milan 2009 (Christianity and History) , Münster 2010, pp. 49-62.

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