Invisible Women
Invisible Women
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隐形女人
DOI：
10.17077/1536-8742.1147
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2009
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R. M. Karras
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保管者写下的信息是为了他们自己的目的，而不是他们认为可能对五百年来试图重建社会的人们有用的信息。使用档案（或其他）文件作为证据的一个基本原则是理解文件创建的目的。某些类型的信息可能已经被包括或免除，不是因为它们不可用，不是因为它们在中世纪文化中无关紧要，而仅仅是因为它们对于记录的目的来说是不必要的。.分析为什么某些信息被认为是必要的，可能有助于我们更深入地了解文化，但这不应与假设没有提到的东西不重要相混淆。例如，如果涉及财产交易的文件中有妇女的婚姻状况，但没有男子的婚姻状况，这可能是因为妇女的婚姻状况决定了她们对财产的权利，而男子则没有。也可能是妇女的婚姻状况被认为是其个人身份的基础，而男子则不是，但我们不能从财产交易中提到婚姻状况这一事实得出这一结论。大量的社会档案文件
keepers wrote down the infdrmation they heeded for their own pur'poses, not the information tfiey thought might be useful to people five hundred years litter trymg to reconstruct their society, A fundamental principle in the use of archival (or apy other) documents of practIce as evidence is to understand the purpose for which the document was created. Certain types of information may have been included or excfuded not because they were not available, not because they were irrelevant in medieval culture, but simply because they were not necessary for the purpose of the recordkeepmg. . An analysis of why certain information was deemed necessary may help us understand the culture in more depth, but that should not be confused with assuming that whatever is not mentioned is not important. For example, if documents involving pfoperty transactions rypjcallj' gIve the marital status of women but not that of men, this is likely because women's marital status determined what kinds of rights over propertY, th~y could have, whereas men s did not. It could also be that a woman's marital status was deemed fundamental to her personal identity in a way that a man's was not, but we cannot draw that conclusion from the fact that it is mentioned in property transactions. A great many' of the archival documents that social