Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories， which have illuminated the attitudes of different social groups (these attitudes include，but are not confined to，attitudes toward crime and the law)and have revealed how the authorities administered justice.
象勒羅伊。拉迪里(Le Roy Ladurie)一類的史學(xué)家利用這些文獻(xiàn)史料從中挖掘出某些個案史(case history)來，闡明了不同社會群體的態(tài)度(這些態(tài)度包括，但并非局限于，對犯罪和法律的態(tài)度)，并揭示出*是如何執(zhí)行審判的。