TEI XML files of the project The School of Salamanca. Works, Dictionary Articles and more.
The project The School of Salamanca of the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, in collaboration with the Institute for Philosophy of the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, establishes a digital collection of sources and a dictionary of the juridical-political language of the eponymous school. If you want to learn more about the School of Salamanca and its role in the history of political and juridical thought, you can find more information on the project's website, but of course you may also prefer to start with scholarly reference works, such as the respective entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy or the Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Of course, Wikipedia has entries in several languages, too.
These files represent historical works of authors of the school or modern dictionary articles about salient topics of the (Western) juridical-political language as it has been shaped by the school. They have passed several stages of editorial work and quality assurance. They have been evolving in a private repository and are available for reading on the website of the project. Once they have arrived in this repository, they are ready to be shared and forwarded to a long-time archival site and research data repository at zenodo.org. This forwarding happens automatically with every TEI file checked in here, and is done with the tei2zenodo service developed at the MPI for Legal History and Legal Theory.
Unlike in this repository, the XML files in our working contexts are organized in a modularized way: Redundant metadata about the project and about the handling of special characters is described in stand-alone files (https://files.salamanca.school/works-general.xml and https://files.salamanca.school/specialchars.xml) and included in the respective processing via the XML XInclude mechanism.
For submission to the research data repository, we have to resolve these XInclude constructs so that the files can in fact stand alone, and to adjust some bits of our vocabulary: the repository expects information about contributor roles and licenses to be expressed differently from what we use in the project. This preparation is done with the prepare.cmd script, which calls GNU sed, XMLlint, and some processing of XSLT via Saxon Home Edition.
(Xmllint seems to be among the VERY few tools able to resolve our XIncludes (since it can make use of the xpointer scheme in the xpointer attribute) besides eXist-db and our online web application. See https://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html for download links and more information about xmllint on windows.)
We include all the necessary files here for convenience (see the prepare subdirectory).
All the files are available under open access terms: They are licensed under
the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY 4.0) except where stated
differently in the files themselves (in the /TEI/teiHeader/fileDesc/publicationStmt/availability/licence element
or thereabouts).