WEATHER COMPILATIONS AS A SOURCE OF DATA FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN CLIMATE DURING MEDIEVAL PERIOD
WEATHER COMPILATIONS AS A SOURCE OF DATA FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN CLIMATE DURING MEDIEVAL PERIOD
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DOI：
10.1007/bf00135154
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发表时间：
1978-01-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
OGILVIE, AEJ
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作者：
BELL, WT;OGILVIE, AEJ
对中世纪气候的研究在很大程度上依赖于从各种历史文本和源文件中提取的天气和相关现象参考资料的汇编所提供的数据。从1858年开始编制的这些汇编，一般都忽略了源验证的必要性。虽然在文献资料中可以找到相当数量的关于中世纪气候的可靠和有用的信息，但这些信息与虚假的、不准确的或其可靠性无法得到适当验证的材料一起出现。因为他们大多数是科学家，不熟悉历史方法和来源分析技术，汇编的作者要么不知道他们的来源有问题的性质，要么不知道历史学家为处理它们而开发的技术。汇编中的材料必须被视为可疑材料，直到通过核实个别来源来检查其真实性。除非做到这一点，否则不加批判地使用汇编可能会对中世纪的气候产生误导。特别是，气候似乎比真实来源所暗示的更为极端。
Research into the climate of the Middle Ages has relied heavily upon data provided by compilations of references to weather and related phenomena extracted from a variety of historical texts and source documents. These compilations, produced from 1858 onwards, have generally neglected the essential need for source validation. While a considerable amount of reliable and useful information about medieval climate is to be found in documentary sources, it occurs together with material which is spurious, inaccurate, or whose reliability cannot be properly authenticated. Because they were, for the most part, scientists, unfamiliar with historical methodology and techniques of source analysis, the authors of the compilations were either unaware of the problematic character of their sources, or ignorant of the techniques developed by historians for dealing with them. The material included in the compilations must be regarded as suspect until its authenticity has been checked by validating individual sources. Unless this is done, a misleading picture of the climate of the Middle Ages may emerge from uncritical use of the compilations. In particular, the climate may appear to have been more extreme than authentic sources alone would suggest.