Canons
Compare what titles share and where they differ
In fourth century Syria Palaestina, historian Eusebius of Caesarea constructed what are today known as Eusebian Canon Tables as a means of comparing the contents of the Gospels. He numbered every section of each Gospel and sorted those numbers by which Gospels shared them: the first canon listed the stories all four tell, the middle canons the ones three or two share, and the last the passages found in only one. A reader could see where the Gospels were in agreement and where they differed at a glance.
To that same end, we have constructed our canon tables for the Period Piece archive. Choose a time period, a person, a thread, or a place, or up to four titles of your own, and their sections (the historical figures, threads, places and years each title is tagged with) are sorted into canons by which titles share them. Quickly see which titles depict the same events using the same characters and which take different approaches. Sections are numbered in the order of history, and a series shows the episodes each one appears in.
- § each section is numbered in the order of history, in Roman numerals as a scribe would write them (i, ii, iii…): section i happens first
- Columns each title keeps one colour for its pillar in every canon, beside its name at the head of the column
- tagged the title carries the tag; where it can be said, the cell names the years or the episodes instead
- depicts the title depicts the year but is set elsewhere; an episode code in italics does the same