The charters and records of the monastery and the Oberamt Königsfelden: A scholarly edition goes online:

Hybrid launch event: www.koenigsfelden.uzh.ch

In the Middle Ages, Königsfelden was both a monastery and a Habsburg royal residence. The eventful history of the monastery in Switzerland can now be searched and efficiently explored thanks to our digital edition: www.koenigsfelden.uzh.ch. Around 1500 documents have been digitized as high-resolution facsimiles and transcribed by scholars. The first documents date from the time of the monastery's foundation early in the fourteenth century. Most of them concern purchases of goods from the still young monastery and donations from the Habsburg family, with which Queen Agnes of Hungary made the monastery flourish. The last preserved pieces are letters of sisters who – at the beginning of the Reformation – had converted to Protestantism and therefore wanted to leave the convent. In the online edition of the archive holdings, all charters, records, and letters from this period are now available. Places mentioned in the documents are linked to an interactive map and people to the historical encyclopedia of Switzerland. The documents can be organized and searched in the digital edition according to various criteria, allowing the sheer volume of information to be effectively managed and analyzed. Moreover, the edition allows tracing how each document was positioned and re-positioned during each of the many attempts at reorganizing the archive. Online, link to ZOOM Call: Meeting-ID: 675 5165 2271; Code: 086685 uzh.zoom.us/j/67551652271?pwd=c3dtZ0dSdG1GWWZnblNJdFdnRkVjZz09 offline at the University of Zurich (main-building), room KOL-H-320.

Program

4:15

Simon Teuscher Welcome and introduction to Königsfelden in the Middle Ages,

4:30

Colette Halter-Pernet Structure and annotations Insights into the digital edition,

4:45

Tobias Hodel Visualizing networks and publishing open-data,

5:00

Q & A.