The Documentary Language of the Reformpäpste

By systematically comparing the internal characteristics, the project’s intention is to trace continuities, breaks and developments in the documents of the reform popes. The aim is not only to incorporate the method of Diktatvergleich, which is well established from the documents of kings, but also to utilise approaches from the Digital Humanities in order to not only be able to tap into the undoubtedly large mass of sources, but also to carry out stylometric procedures.