Visualized Evidence. Manuscript Maps and Genealogies as Exhibits at the Imperial Chamber Court (1495-1806)

该项目旨在通过分析提交给皇家法庭（1495年至1806年）的司法证据片段，探索光学和大地测量证据的生产。该项目还将分析在整个法律历史中，科学事实被用作验证手段的方式。这个想法是为了展示，空间和权威的证据是如何在法律交流过程中被证明的。这一目标将通过统计评估手稿地图和家谱的不同展示形式来实现，比如p.e.盾形纹章，这些都被包括在大约8万份皇家法庭的过程文件中。这是为了实现对证明的空间、权威和实践的交流的可靠概述。第二步将包括对一些档案的详细研究，这些档案涵盖了整个近代早期神圣罗马帝国的帝国法庭管辖的整个地区。通过这样做，在分析各种证据手段所涉及的争议事项时，将更详细地探讨各种证据手段的实际和法律背景；并附有相关立法和当代文献。

The project presented aims to explore the production of optical and geodetical evidence by means of analysing pieces of juridical evidence presented to the Imperial Chamber Court (1495 go 1806). The project will also analyze the ways in which scientific facts were used as a means of verifcation over time throughout the history of law. The idea is to show, how evidence of space and authority was proven in a juristic communication process. This aim will be achieved by statistically evaluating manuscript maps and genealogies in their different forms of display, like p. e. coats of arms, which were included into the ca. 80.000 process files of the Imperial Chamber Court. This is to achieve a reliable overview of the communication about space, authority and practices of proof. A second step will include detailed studies in a number of archives which cover the entire area of jurisdiction that the Imperial Chamber Court held in the Holy Roman Empire throughout the early modern era. By doing so, the actual and juridical context of the various means of evidence will be explored in closer detail while analyzing the matters in dispute they refer to; accompanied by the relevant legislation an contemporary literature.