Ontology of Narratives of the Middle Ages: Corpus 1.0

This repository contains the corpus of the project 'ONAMA - Ontology of Narratives of the Middle Ages'. ONAMA enables the systematic comparison of the structures and building blocks of many narratives in medieval literature and images.

The narratives in the corpus essentially revolve around two thematic focuses, which are often present in medieval literature and visual art. These are, on the one hand, the 'Story of Jason and the Argonauts with the Quest for the Golden Fleece', anchored in the context of the Trojan War; and on the other hand, narratives about 'Fighting with or Taming wild Animals'.

The data on the Argonaut saga are based on the pictorial realisations in Codex 2773 of the Austrian National Library, a German-language adaptation of Guido de Columnis 'Historia destructionis Troiae' with opulent miniatures by Martinus Opifex (c. 1450), and on the textual realisations in two romances, the 'Liet von Troye' by Herbort von Fritzlâr (c. 1190) and 'Der Trojanische Krieg' by Konrad von Würzburg (c. 1280).

The thematic area 'Fighting with or Taming wild Animals' offers multifaceted realisations that span across texts from MHDBDB and images from REALonline. In connection with this theme are a number of recorded narratives that go beyond medieval literature and are taken from J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit', concerning the dragon Smaug.