The Index Librorum Civitatum (Index of town records of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times) as a tool for basic historical research

该项目的目的是完成以前在索引图书馆(ILC)中合并的信息，并进行准备，以便到1800年为止，前民主德国领土上所有大约70.000个可检测到的城镇记录第一次都可以在一个免费访问的研究数据库中获得。作为对这一独特研究工具的刺激，将对上卢萨提亚城市中很少被研究但部分保存完整的城镇记录进行深入研究。这项研究将展示该数据库用于比较研究的潜力。这项研究的重点是从13世纪到16世纪末，行政记录的媒介、使用和保存形式，以及某些形式的行政素养被挪用、转化和发展的可能性和机制。对特定历史问题的应用将使我们能够改进国际法委员会的分析和捕获标准，并推进这些标准。因此，数据库查询标准的可组合性超出了仅仅参考记录的城市或地点的范围，因此能够进行以问题为导向的研究。广泛收集以前被忽视的城镇记录的信息，将首次为评价研究地区城镇记录现象提供一个广泛的基础。随着该项目的完成，将开启扩大国际法中心复盖范围的前景。

The aim of this project is to complete the previously in the Index Librorum Civitatum (ILC) merged information and prepare it so, that for the first time all of the approximately 70.000 until the year 1800 detectable town records of the territory of the former GDR are available in a freely accessible research database. In close connection and as a stimulus for this unique research tool will be executed an in-depth study of the little-studied, but partly complete preserved, town records of the Upper Lusatian cities. This study will show the potentials of the database for comparative studies. The focus of this study are questions of the media, use and the forms of keeping of administrative records and of the possibilities and mechanisms of appropriation, transformation and development of certain forms of administrative literacy from the 13th until the end of the 16th century. The application to a specific historical problem will allow us to refine the analysis and capture criteria of the ILC and to advance them. The combinability of the query criteria of the database is thereby going beyond a mere reference to the cities or location verifications of the records and so it enables problem-oriented research. The widespread gathering of information to previously neglected town records will provide for the first time a broad basis for the evaluation of the phenomenon of the town records in the study area. With the completion of the project will be opened prospects of expanding the coverage area of the ILC.