Baza danych jako forma edycji wykazów święceń duchowieństwa
The aim of the study is to present the concept of edition, based on a relational database, of ordination lists of the clergy preserved in Poland. In the first part of the article the form of ordination lists is analyzed and its main components are described, relying mainly on lists from the pre-Tridentine era. The second part examine the present state of Polish historiography when it comes to the elaboration of registers of ordination and practice of making them available, which applies mostly to post-Tridentine sources. The final section presents the assumptions and substantive basis for the structure of the edition of ordination lists based on database; it describes the main tables making up the database and the relationships between them.
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