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Faculty of Law Chair of Legal History, Ecclesiastical Law, Legal Theory and Private Law

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I. General (legal) historical research


Historicum.net: Provides access to digital services for historians. These include research tools, FID licenses, or the German Historical Bibliography. Research portal specific to the First World War.

Themenportal Europäische Geschichte: The European History Theme Portal covers the history of Europe and Europeans from the 18th century to the present using original text, image, and sound documents that are placed in their historical contexts with the help of an accompanying research essay.
The contributions in this section "Law" deal with the history of legal forms, procedures, practices, and justifications in Europe from the early modern period to the present. They analyze the functions and effects of law in the internal and external relations of European societies, states, and legal spaces.

Lebendiges Museum Online - LeMO: LeMO - Lebendiges Museum Online is the online portal on German history. Objects, texts, media, eyewitness accounts and documents invite you to discover, research and inform yourself.
Includes in particular a timeline with chronologically arranged chapters from the 19th century to the present. 

Historisches Lexikon Schweiz - HLS: The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland HLS is a scientifically compiled, networked, up-to-date and multimedia specialized encyclopedia on Swiss history. It sees itself both as a reliable research infrastructure for the scientific community and as a comprehensive and attractive information service for the general public.

II. Reference books


Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte - HRG: The work largely presents the sum of knowledge about the history of law. (Access via university network or VPN)

Lexikon des Mittelalters - IEMA: The world's largest encyclopedia for medievalists (published in German between 1977 and 1999) covers all aspects of medieval studies from 300 to 1500 with 36700 signed articles by 3000 authors. Its geographical scope includes all of Europe, part of the Middle East, and parts of North Africa to document the roots of Western culture and those of its neighbors in the Byzantine, Arab, and Jewish worlds. (Access via university network or VPN via brepolis.net)

III. Sourcebooks


Monumenta Germaniae Historica - digitalisierte MGH-Editionen: These source editions - one of the best-known source collections on medieval history - traditionally appear in the following five sections: Scriptores (historians), Leges (legal texts), Diplomata (charters), Epistolae (letters), Antiquitates (antiquities = poetry and memorial tradition).

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum - MDZ: The Munich Digitization Center has been bringing the rich holdings of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) to the Internet since 1997 (including various codices, digital library of royal manuscripts, works by legal scholars).

Document Archiv.de: Historical collection of documents and sources on German history from 1800 onwards.

REGESTA IMPERII (RI): The RI record all documented and historiographically documented activities of the Roman-German kings and emperors from the Carolingians to Maximilian I (ca. 751-1519) as well as the popes of the early and high Middle Ages in the form of German-language registers.

e-codices: The goal of e-codices is to make all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts in Switzerland freely accessible through a virtual library. Currently, 2539 digitized manuscripts from 97 different collections are available. The virtual library is continuously being expanded.

Amanuensis: Roman Law: Utility for conducting searches within the database of Latin sources pertaining to Roman Law created by the University of Linz.

IV. Libraries, bibliographies and databases


Brepolis: Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies: International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), Bibliography of Medieval Civilisation (BCM) and International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR).

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum - MDZ: The Munich Digitization Center has been bringing the rich holdings of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) to the Internet since 1997 (including various codices, digital library of royal manuscripts, works by legal scholars).

REGESTA IMPERII (RI): The RI record all documented and historiographically documented activities of the Roman-German kings and emperors from the Carolingians to Maximilian I (ca. 751-1519) as well as the popes of the early and high Middle Ages in the form of German-language registers.

Handschriftencensus: The Manuscript Census is an online database of all German-language manuscripts of the Middle Ages (750-1520) worldwide. It combines basic information on authors, works and their transmission. In addition, it offers a selection of literature relevant to the history of transmission for each text witness and access to digital copies.

e-codices: The goal of e-codices is to make all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts in Switzerland freely accessible through a virtual library. Currently, 2539 digitized manuscripts from 97 different collections are available. The virtual library is continuously being expanded.

Amanuensis: Roman Law: Utility for conducting searches within the database of Latin sources pertaining to Roman Law created by the University of Linz.

V. Institutes and research projects


Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie: The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory considers it its most important task to make a specific contribution to basic research in the legal and social sciences as well as in the historical humanities through theoretically reflected historical research in the field of law and other forms of normativity.

MONUMENTA GERMANIAE HISORICA: As a research institution steeped in tradition, which for 200 years has made medieval textual sources accessible to research through critical editions and contributed to scholarly research on the medieval history of Germany and Europe, the MGH embodies the tradition of source-oriented basic research for the history of the European Middle Ages.
With the world's largest specialized library on medieval history, the MGH in Munich offers a place to work effectively and supports historical research with digital services, especially in the field of source editions.

VI. Magazines


Forum historiae iurs - fhi: The forum historiae iuris sees itself as a place for the presentation as well as the discussion of legal historical topics and theses, be it in the form of essays or miscellanies, be it in the form of reports or reviews. At the same time, the forum historiae iuris is intended to serve as an information platform for all those who are interested in legal historical discourse. (open acess)

Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History - Rg: Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History (Rg) is the journal of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory, edited by the directors Marietta Auer, Thomas Duve and Stefan Vogenauer. It covers the entire spectrum of the discipline and is not limited to specific epochs or areas of law. It gets its special profile from the legal historical research conducted at the Institute on the legal history of Europe, the worlds of common law and the Iberian monarchies. (open acess)


The Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte (ZRG, also Savigny-Zeitschrift) represents an integral part of European legal historical research and significantly shapes the current state of the discipline. Each department publishes a new volume annually.

Romance Studies Department
German Department
Canonistic Department

VIII. Other assistance

 

Titivillus: Adds spellchecking for Latin and Ancient Greek to Microsoft Word.