Studies of administrative and managerial documents in the post-roman era in Western Europe

这个研究项目的科学目的包括揭示后罗马时代伦巴第意大利、西哥特西班牙和盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰的文件使用结构。这样做的史学背景是要恢复这些王国的国家地位，这是几代历史学家所否认的。在东哥特国王和伦巴第君主的统治下，意大利的日耳曼部落王国可以通过使用文献来统治他们的大部分领土，直到七世纪中叶，随着古代对文学的复杂品味的文化传统的终结，这片土地上的行政机器中的文献实践崩溃了。我对刻在石板材料上的文件做了初步的研究，这些材料再现了西班牙西哥特国王时期的各种行为。不幸的是，对这一问题的研究状况不允许我们对这些文件的功能、起源以及社会和法律用途等大部分问题找到答案。然而，有一件事是肯定的：西哥特国家熟悉文件的使用，就像其他日耳曼继承国一样。关于盎格鲁-撒克逊王国，我们有一系列神秘的羊皮纸，它们都是在几个世纪后被抄写的，它们的原始文件被命名为“部落Hidage”。正如那些财政和地籍文件所表明的那样，至少在一些盎格鲁-撒克逊王国，必须有一种建立书面记录的传统，以便运行一个行政机构，其结构应该是一个进一步研究项目的目标。

The scientific aim of this research project consists of revealing structures in document's use in the post-roman era in Lombard Italy, Visigothic Spain and Anglo-Saxon England. The historiographical background of this is to rehabilitate the statehood to those kingdoms, which has been denied at by several generations of historians.Under the Ostrogothic kings, and also Lombard sovereigns, the kingdoms of Germanic tribes in Italy could govern for the most part of their territories by virtue of document use until mid-seventh Century, when along the end of cultural tradition from the Antiquity for sophisticated taste in literature, collapsed the documental practices in the administrative machinery on this soil.I have done a preliminary research about the documents inscribed on slate materials which reproduced a variety of deeds employed certainly under Visigothic kings in Spain. Unfortunately, the state of research on the matter does not permit us to get answers for most part of questions, were it the functions, origins and social and legal utilities of those documents. However, one thing is certain : the Visigothic state got acquainted with document's use for its administration exactly like other Germanic successor kingdoms.Concerning Anglo-Saxon kingdom, we have a mysterious series of parchments which were, all of them, copies executed a few centuries after that had been made their original documents whose name is "Tribal Hidage". As those fiscal and cadastral documents suggest, there had to be, at least, in some Anglo-Saxons kingdoms a tradition of establishing the written record in order to run an administrative machinery whose structure ought to be an objective for further research project.