Marriage processes before the official's court in Freising in the Late Middle Ages

虽然近年来，国际上对中世纪晚期和近代早期教会法庭的婚姻程序进行了大量研究，但弗赖辛官方法庭的丰富原始资料在很大程度上仍然不为人知。弗赖辛的官方记录记载了从15世纪中期到16世纪开始60多年的宫廷事务，无论是在数量上还是在质量上，不仅与德语地区的其他资料相比，而且在欧洲范围内都是一个非常重要的收藏品。Freising的材料中有大量详细的过程文件，包括证人检查协议和原始证据，如情书或医疗证明，使人们能够对法庭惯例以及出庭人员的心态、生活环境和性别关系有独特的见解。中世纪晚期弗赖辛官方法庭上的婚姻程序项目旨在首次提供这一宝贵的原始资料。根据最初的资金申请，该项目是处理从1424/1462年到1526年的完整集合，在数据库中登记所有人员和处理信息。由于若干原因，有必要修改预测的目标，并缩小其范围，以涵盖到1500年的时期。特别是，对这些卷进行的更仔细的调查证明，它们包含的与婚姻案件有关的材料比以前根据其他研究人员的估计或随机抽样所认为的要多得多。因此，正在申请延长该项目，以完成未完成的研究，并以根据以往工作的经验和见解修改的形式实现最初的项目目标。因此，数据库中的婚姻登记过程将在1501年至1526年（14卷）的剩余时间内完成，其内容，包括与文化历史相关的信息，将用关键词标记。加上简短的过程摘要，这将有助于使语言学和古地理学要求高的源材料可供进一步研究。对法律的、社会和文化历史特别感兴趣的选定婚姻过程将进行更详细的登记。从法律的和社会历史的角度研究法庭记录的两本专著目前正在出版中，即将完成。最后，迄今为止为项目实习生服务的数据库将为在线研究做好准备，并纳入伙伴档案馆的互联网门户网站，该门户网站保存记录本身，并将确保数据的长期维护。

Although in recent years there has been considerable international research done on marriage processes before ecclesiastical courts in the Later Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period, the rich source material of the court of the official in Freising has largely remained unknown. The records of the officiality in Freising document the business of the court during the span of more than 60 years from the middle of the 15th century to the begin of the 16th century and are, in their quantity and quality, not only in comparison to other sources in German-speaking lands, but also on the European scale a collection of outstanding importance. With large numbers of detailed process documentation including protocols of witness examinations and original evidence such as love letters or medical certificates, the Freising material allows unique insights into court practices as well as into the mentality and living circumstances and gender relationships of the people who appeared before court. The project Marriage processes before the court of the official in Freising in the Late Middle Ages is aimed at making this valuable source material accessible for the first time. According to the initial application for funding, the project was to treat the complete collection of volumes from 1424/1462 to 1526, registering all persons and process information in a data bank. A number of reasons have made it necessary to modify the projected aims and reduce their scope to cover the period of time up to the year 1500. In particular, a closer investigation of the volumes proved that they contain considerably more material related to marriage cases than had previously been thought on the basis of estimates by other researchers or random samples. An extension of the project is therefore being applied for in order to complete the unfinished research and to fulfil the original project aims in a form modified by the experiences and insights of the previous work. The registration of marriage processes in the data bank is thereby to be completed for the remaining years 1501 to 1526 (fourteen volumes) and their contents, including information of culture-historical relevance, are to be tagged with key-words. Together with short process summaries, this will contribute to make the philologically and paleographically demanding source material accessible for further research. Selected marriage processes of particular interest for legal, social and cultural history will be registered in greater detail. The two monographs studying the court records from legal and social-historical perspectives are currently in progess and will be completed. Finally, the data bank, which thus far has served project-intern purposes, is to prepared for online research and integrated into the internet portals of the partner-archives, which house the records themselves and will secure the long-term maintenance of the data.