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 of the thirteen regional categories listed below (see also the map for borders). 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
Comment on the Map
The map on the right was created with the Visual Editor in Wikipedia (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 were produced and copied (most of Western Europe plus northern Africa and the Crusader Kingdoms) into large regions. For this, I have roughly followed the terminology in palaeography, but in many cases terms like "Western France" are used in different ways, so I frequently made ad hoc decisions. Also, drawing the map forced me to define my terminology much more precisely than it is commonly the case in palaeography.
In many cases, I have followed modern administrative borders, so the borders are a compromise between historical meaningful (but often vague) and modern, sometimes anachronistic definitions. Feel free to use the discussion page to make suggestions how to improve the terminology used here.
List of Regions
The most important categories to indicate the place of origins are those referring to regions. Every collection should be in one and only one of the following categories:
- France and her neighbors
[[Category:Collection from Western France]]= region Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes.- Subcategories include Poitiers
- See Category:Collection from Western France
[[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,
- See Category:Collection from Southern France
[[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,
- See Category:Collection from Eastern France
[[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 ...
- See Category:Collection from Northern France
[[Category:Collection from Iberian Peninsula]]= Portugal and Spain but excluding Catalonia; see Category:Collection from Iberian Peninsula- Italy
[[Category:Collection from Northern Italy]]= Italy north of the Appennino settentrionale inluding Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic speaking Switzerland- subcategories include Florence, Milan, Polirone, ...
- see Category:Collection from Northern Italy
[[Category:Collection from Central Italy]]= the modern regions of Marche, Umbria, Abbruzzo and Lazio- subcategories include Rome, Farfa, and Montecassino
- see Category:Collection from Central Italy
[[Category:Collection from Southern Italy]]= everything south of Central Italy, including Sicily; see Category:Collection from Southern Italy
- Germany and her neighbours
[[Category:Collection from Southern Germany]]= Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, northern Switzerland and parts of Austria (the states of Upper Austria, Salzburg, Carinthia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg); see Category:Collection from Southern Germany[[Category:Collection from Western Germany]]= North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Saarland; see Category:Collection from Western Germany
[[Category:Collection from England]]= England and Wales; see Category:Collection from England[[Category:Collection from Ireland]]= Ireland (island); see Category:Collection from Ireland[[Category:Collection from Northern Africa]]= the late-antique Province of Africa. See Category:Collection from Northern Africa
Other categories
Higher-level categories
Every collection should be in one of the thirteen regional categores listed above; these in turn are all subcategories of either Category:Collection from Northwestern Europe or Category:Collection from Southern Europe and Mediterranean. If, exceptionally, it is not possible to place a collection in a regional category, use a more general category (e.g. Category:Collection from Italy); only if that is impossible too, place the collection in either Category:Collection from Northwestern Europe or Category:Collection from Southern Europe and Mediterranean directly.
It is possible, and may be useful, to create other categories above the regional level.
More specific (sub-)categories
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]]. Such specific categories should be used in addition to the thirteen regional categories listed above. If you create new categories, make sure they do not overlap with existing ones and are sub-categories of one of the thirteen regional categories listed above.
