General Survey of historical materials on the Medieval Europe

历史研究的国际化要求日本中世纪欧洲史学家既要借鉴欧洲史学的传统研究方法，又要掌握欧洲学科历史研究的最新方法，尤其是以原始文献为基础的研究。我们组织了17名日本学者调查欧洲中世纪历史的史学、方法、学科，以及日本人如何接近原始文献。调查的资料来源如下：MelRose和Chronica治安官Rogeri Houedene、Glanvill和Bracton的编年史、德国皇帝的特权、诺曼国王的宪章和管子、威尼斯公证人的Imbreviatura、英国卡通书、星期三书、罚款之尺、国王长凳的认罪书、爱德华四世国王的家庭书籍、莱斯特伯爵夫人的账簿、庄园账目和宫廷书籍、佛兰芒市政账目、伊丽莎白时代教会执事的访问文章。通过研究和讨论，我们利用原始文献获得了关于中世纪研究的基本思想，并建立了一个以软盘形式向公众开放的英国中世纪卡特尔数据库。我们的一些成员在英国和美国的历史会议上阅读了一篇论文，并在《中世纪历史杂志》或《战斗会议论文集》上发表了英文文章。尽管我们试图将从外交学到叙事学的几乎所有文献领域都包括在内，但仍有许多史料没有经过我们的调查，如文学或神学方面的史料。我们计划下一步调查那些油田的来源。

Internationalisation of historical research has required Japanese historians of Medieval Europe to get the traditional method as well as the newest one of historical research in European discipline, especially a research based on original documents. We have organised seventeen Japanese scholars to survey the historiography of European Medieval history, methods, disciplines, and how the Japanese can approach the original documents. Sources surveyed were as follow ; chronicles of Melrose and Chronica Magistri Rogeri Houedene, Glanvill and Bracton, Privilegium of German Emperors, writ-charters and pipe rolls of Norman kings, imbreviatura by Venetian notaries, English cartularies, Domesday Book, feet of fines, plea rolls of the court of king's bench, king Edward IV's household books, account rolls of the countess of Leicester, manorial account and court rolls, Flemish municipal accounts, and Elizabethan visitation articles by churchwardens. Through our studies and discussions we have acquired the basic ideas about the medieval studies using original documents, and construct a database about English medieval cartularies which could be open to the public in the form of a floppy disc. Some of our members read a paper at historical conference in Britain and the United States, and published articles in English in the Journal of Medieval History, or Proceedings of the Battle Conference. Although we tried to include almost all the fields of the documents from diplomatiques to narratives, there still remains a lot of historical materials not yet surveyed by us, like those on literature or theology. We plan to survey the sources of those fields next.