Marriage processes before the official's court in Freising in the Late Middle Ages

尽管近年来国际上对中世纪晚期和近代早期教会法庭的婚姻过程进行了大量的研究，但弗莱辛官方法庭的丰富原始材料在很大程度上仍然未知。弗莱辛的官方记录记录了从15世纪中叶到16世纪初的60多年间宫廷的事务，在数量和质量上，不仅与德语国家的其他来源相比，而且在欧洲范围内也具有突出的重要性。通过大量详细的过程文件，包括证人检查协议和原始证据，如情书或医疗证明，Freising材料提供了对法庭实践的独特见解，以及出庭者的心态、生活环境和性别关系。在中世纪晚期弗雷辛的官方法庭前的婚姻过程项目旨在使这些有价值的原始材料第一次被访问。根据最初的资助申请，该项目将处理1424/1462至1526卷的完整集合，在数据库中登记所有人员和处理信息。由于一些原因，有必要修改预期的目标，并将其范围缩小到1500年以前。特别是，对这些卷进行更仔细的调查证明，它们包含的与婚姻案件有关的材料比以前根据其他研究人员的估计或随机抽样所认为的要多得多。因此，正在申请项目的扩展，以完成未完成的研究，并通过以前工作的经验和见解修改的形式实现最初的项目目标。因此，数据库中的婚姻登记过程将在剩余的1501年至1526年（14卷）完成，其内容，包括与文化历史相关的信息，将用关键字标记。与简短的过程总结一起，这将有助于使文献学和古文字学要求的源材料可用于进一步的研究。对法律、社会和文化史特别感兴趣的精选婚姻过程将更详细地登记。从法律和社会历史角度研究法庭记录的两本专著目前正在进行中，即将完成。最后，迄今为止为项目实习目的服务的数据库将为联机研究做好准备，并将其纳入伙伴档案的互联网门户，这些档案本身存放记录，并将确保数据的长期维护。

Although in recent years there has been considerable international research done on marriage processes before ecclesiastical courts in the Later Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period, the rich source material of the court of the official in Freising has largely remained unknown. The records of the officiality in Freising document the business of the court during the span of more than 60 years from the middle of the 15th century to the begin of the 16th century and are, in their quantity and quality, not only in comparison to other sources in German-speaking lands, but also on the European scale a collection of outstanding importance. With large numbers of detailed process documentation including protocols of witness examinations and original evidence such as love letters or medical certificates, the Freising material allows unique insights into court practices as well as into the mentality and living circumstances and gender relationships of the people who appeared before court. The project Marriage processes before the court of the official in Freising in the Late Middle Ages is aimed at making this valuable source material accessible for the first time. According to the initial application for funding, the project was to treat the complete collection of volumes from 1424/1462 to 1526, registering all persons and process information in a data bank. A number of reasons have made it necessary to modify the projected aims and reduce their scope to cover the period of time up to the year 1500. In particular, a closer investigation of the volumes proved that they contain considerably more material related to marriage cases than had previously been thought on the basis of estimates by other researchers or random samples. An extension of the project is therefore being applied for in order to complete the unfinished research and to fulfil the original project aims in a form modified by the experiences and insights of the previous work. The registration of marriage processes in the data bank is thereby to be completed for the remaining years 1501 to 1526 (fourteen volumes) and their contents, including information of culture-historical relevance, are to be tagged with key-words. Together with short process summaries, this will contribute to make the philologically and paleographically demanding source material accessible for further research. Selected marriage processes of particular interest for legal, social and cultural history will be registered in greater detail. The two monographs studying the court records from legal and social-historical perspectives are currently in progess and will be completed. Finally, the data bank, which thus far has served project-intern purposes, is to prepared for online research and integrated into the internet portals of the partner-archives, which house the records themselves and will secure the long-term maintenance of the data.