Categories for collections by region

If you want to place a collection in a category indicating the place of origin, please use the map and the list below as a guide. Every collection should be in one and only one category; choose the most specific one possible. The category pages (e.g. Category:Collection from Northern France will show you which collections are already in the category, and normally contain a copy&paste ready category tag (e.g. [[Category:Collection from Northern France]]).

Map

The map on the right was created with the Visual Editor (see https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:CRolker/Karte for the original version, with Open Street Map as base map, hence with roads, cities, and modern borders). The goal was to divide the area where Latin canon law collections emerged (most of Western Europe plus northern Africa) into large regions. I roughly followed the tag often found in palaeography, but in many cases terms like "Western France" are used in different ways, so in many cases I made ad hoc decisions.

In many cases, I have followed modern administrative borders, so the borders are a compromise between historical meaningful (but often vague) and modern definitions.

List of categories

The regions are:

• France and its neighbors
  • Category:Collection from Western France = region Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
    • Subcategories include Poitiers
  • Category:Collection from Southern France = Auvergne-Rhones-Alpes, Provence ..., Languedoc, plus Catalonia and French-speaking Switzerland south of Lake Geneva
    • subcategories include Catalonia, Lyon, Toulouse,
  • Category:Collection from Eastern France = Bourgogne-Franche Comté and Grand Est plus Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland north of Lake Geneva.
    • Subcategories include Reims, Liège, Châlons-en-Champagne, Sens,
  • Category:Collection from Northern France = the rest, i.e. Brittany, Normandy, Ile de France, Pays-de-la-Loire and Centre-Val-de-Loire.
    • Subcategories include Chartres, Fleury, Thérouanne ...
• Category:Collection from Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain but not Catalonia)
• Italy
  • Category:Collection from Northern Italy = Italy north of the Appennino settentrionale inluding Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic speaking Switzerland
    • subcategories include Florence, Milan, Polirone, ...
  • Category:Collection from Central Italy = the modern regions of Marche, Umbria, Abbruzzo and Lazio
    • subcategories include Rome
  • Category:Collection from Southern Italy = everything south of Central Italy, including Sicily
• Germany
  • Category:Collection from Southern Germany = Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, German-speaking northern Switzerland and parts of Austria (the states of Upper Austria, Salzburg, Carinthia, Tyrol nud Vorarlberg)
  • Category:Collection from Western Germany = North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Saarland
    • subcategories include Worms
• Category:Collection from England = England and Wales
• Category:Collection from Ireland = Ireland (island)
• Category:Collection from Northern Africa = the late-antique Province of Africa

Every region is placed in either Category:Collection from Northwestern Europe or Category:Collection from Southern Europe / Mediterranean, or in a subcategory of either categories (e.g. Category:Collection from Italy.

Feel free to use more specific categories to indicate the place of origin, e.g. [[Category:Collection from Bologna]], [[Category:Collection from Chartres]], [[Category:Collection from Rome]].

Always use only one category, namely the most specific one available.