Dataset of the project FISCUS. Fiscal Estate in Medieval Italy: Continuity and Change (9th-12th Centuries)

This dataset contains the .xml files used to create the FISCUS online database (DOI: 10.60760/unibo/fiscus; ISBN: 9788854971394), which is the main output of the PRIN2017 research project FISCUS. The main folder of the dataset, FISCUS_documents_20250206, is divided into twenty-three sub-folders; each of them contains the .xml files with the text of the medieval documents that have been marked up by the authors and/or the contributors of the online database FISCUS. One will also find the folder named FISCUS_authority-list_20250206, which is made of five files. Each of those includes the data related to one specific category of objects which were regarded as particularly important for the study of fiscal estates during the early and the central Middle Ages: namely, the landed estates and the jurisdictional ambits in which fiscal properties and/or the exertion of public rights is recorded; the juridical persons (churches, monasteries and urban communes) mentioned in the documents; the people and the places which appear in our documentary record; and finally the list of keywords (thesaurus).