Finance, law and the language of governmental practice in late medieval towns: Aberdeen and Augsburg in comparison

这个项目解决了如何理解中世纪后期西欧城镇政府实践的语言、术语和思想的问题。它通过对巴伐利亚城市奥格斯堡和苏格兰较小的阿伯丁伯勒最近创建的资源进行新的分析来做到这一点。阿伯丁记录保持联合国教科文组织英国指定地位。由共同申请人领导的先前合作项目已经创建了不同类型的城市行政记录文本内容的数字转换-奥格斯堡（1320-1466/70）的主要财务账簿和阿伯丁（1398-1511）的主要法律的理事会登记簿。现在的机会是将这些资源进行比较，并对其内容进行深入的历史驱动分析，同时开发中世纪德国和苏格兰史学可以从更直接的学术对话中受益的方式。考试将涉及奥格斯堡和阿伯丁记录的以下方面：（1）在这两个城镇活跃的财务管理术语和思想是什么;（2）法律-司法管理术语和思想是什么（同样，在这两个城镇）;在这两种情况下，询问是否有共同的治理词汇，特别是关于法律和金融;以及（3）如何最好地解决这两个XML数据集的结构化比较的方法学挑战。两种XML资源的TEI格式意味着比较是可能的;语言技术人员RF的作用将是至关重要的，在应用现有的工具和设计新的自动分析技术，以支持历史查询，并使相关术语的语料库规模的检查和推进数字人文的一个重要领域。

This project addresses the problem of how to understand the languages, terminology and ideas of governmental practice in western European towns in the later middle ages. It does so through new analysis of recently created resources for the Bavarian city of Augsburg and the smaller Scottish burgh of Aberdeen. The Aberdeen records hold UNESCO UK designation status. Preceding collaborative projects led by the co-applicants have created digital transcriptions of the textual contents of different types of urban administrative record – the mainly financial ledger books of Augsburg (1320-1466/70) and the mainly legal council registers of Aberdeen (1398-1511). The opportunity now is to place these resources in comparison and undertake deep historically driven analysis of their content, and simultaneously to develop the ways in which German and Scottish historiographies of the medieval period can benefit from more direct academic dialogue. The examination will address the following aspects of the Augsburg and Aberdeen records: (1) what were the terminology and ideas of financial administration active in both towns; (2) what were the terminology and ideas of legal-juridical administration (again, in both towns); in both cases asking was there a shared vocabulary of governance, particularly concerning law and finance; and (3) how best to address the methodological challenge of a structured comparison of these two XML data sets. The TEI-format of both XML resources means the comparison is possible; the role of the language technician RF will be vital in applying existing tools and designing new techniques for automatic analysis to support historical enquiry, and enabling a corpus-scale examination of the relevant terminology and advancing an important field of digital humanities.