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有欧洲学科历史研究的传统方法，也要有欧洲学科历史研究的最新方法，特别是要有基于原始文献的研究方法。我们组织了17位日本学者来调查欧洲中世纪史的史学，方法，学科，以及日本人如何接近原始文献。调查的来源如下：梅尔罗斯编年史和地方官编年史Rogeri Houedene，Glanvill和Bracton，德国皇帝的编年史，诺曼国王的书面宪章和烟斗卷，威尼斯公证人的imbreviatura，英国卡特尔，Domestic Book，罚款英尺，国王法庭的法庭申诉卷，国王爱德华四世的家庭书籍，莱斯特伯爵夫人的账户卷，庄园账户和法院卷，佛兰芒市政帐户，并由教会执事埃克塞特访问文章。通过研究和讨论，我们初步掌握了利用原始文献进行中世纪研究的基本思路，并建立了一个以软盘形式对外开放的英国中世纪文书数据库。我们的一些成员在英国和美国的历史会议上读了一篇论文，并在《中世纪历史杂志》或《战役会议论文集》上发表了英文文章。虽然我们试图包括几乎所有的领域的文件，从手稿到叙述，仍然有很多历史材料尚未调查，如文学或神学。我们计划下一步调查这些油田的来源。

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.