Court records can be some of the most rewarding but also some of the most problematic source types available to the historian of premodernity. This introduction to the ‘New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records’ Special Collection presents an overview of some of the most important historiography based on these sources, touching on fundamental methodological debates about their nature and the possibilities of their use by historians.

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简介：中世纪后期法庭记录的新方法

法庭记录可能是前现代史学家可获得的一些最有意义的资料，但也可能是一些最成问题的资料来源。这份“中世纪后期法庭记录的新方法”特别收藏的简介对基于这些资源的一些最重要的史学进行了概述，并涉及了有关其性质以及历史学家使用它们的可能性的基本方法论辩论。