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

本研究的科学目的在于揭示后罗马时代意大利伦巴第、西哥特西班牙和盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰的文献使用结构。其史学背景是恢复这些王国的国家地位，这已经被几代历史学家否认。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凭借文件使用来统治他们的大部分领土，直到世纪中期，当沿着自上古以来的文化传统的终结，笔者对石板文书进行了初步的研究它复制了西哥特国王在西班牙的各种行为。不幸的是，对这一问题的研究状况使我们无法回答大部分问题，如这些文件的功能、起源以及社会和法律的效用。然而，有一件事是肯定的：西哥特国家得到了熟悉的文件的使用，其管理完全一样，其他日耳曼继承王国。关于盎格鲁-撒克逊王国，我们有一个神秘的羊皮纸系列，所有这些，副本执行了几个世纪后，已经取得了他们的原始文件，其名称是“部落隐藏”。正如这些财政和地籍文件所表明的那样，至少在一些盎格鲁-撒克逊王国中，一定有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.