COLEMON

The purpose of this project is to create and analyze the corpus of monasteries and collegiate churches established in France between the years 816 and 1563. Its objective is to understand the outcomes of the implantation and evolution of this network of establishments, which constitute the primary links connecting cathedrals to parish churches in the clerical landscape. Starting with two databases currently being developed to contain their institutional and physical descriptions to which reconstituted diocesan boundaries are to be integrated, the resulting data silo combined with a Geographical Information System can be harvested by researchers to produce maps for spatial and chronological analyses of these networks. This data silo, a geographical data server, a Web Mapping application and publications resulting from work sessions among the various members of the project will be offered to a wide public (researchers specialized in Humanities and Social Sciences and the general public) via a web portal provided by Huma-Num, a TGIR.