Welcome to DataCons
Introduction
The Digital Database of Late Roman Consular Dates, or ‘DataCons’, emerged from a four-year doctoral project at the Department of History, King’s College London. This initiative received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP). Additional backing for its digital transformation was provided by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College, with the KCL Central IT Cloud Department kindly providing ongoing hosting and security services.Its primary scope is to serve users by providing a complete, easily upgradable and easily searchable database of documents dated by late Roman consuls. The initiative is specifically designed to handle the increasing volume of such documents, a challenge that traditional paper publications have struggled to address. In doing so, the project supports research on and with consular-dated material, facilitating in-depth explorations into late Roman history and its related disciplines, including papyrology and epigraphy and palaeography. Furthermore, the ultimate mission of the database is to offer and support quantitative and data-driven research in the field, integrating and combining geospatial modelling and statistical analysis. Find out more about the project
DataCons is committed to systematically collecting all consular documents published worldwide. Currently, it includes 778 documents written in 2 languages, from 11 regions and categorised into 10 classes and 92 sub-classes of material.
At present, the project provides access to materials dating from CE 476 to 541. The most immediate goal, however, is to compile a comprehensive collection of documents covering the period from Diocletian’s accession in 284 to Heraclius’ death in 641. In pursuit of this objective, updates and expansions are continuously underway.
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