I sondaggi, i metodi e le analisi del progetto GeoDocuM. Alla ricerca delle tendenze locali e sovralocali del latino documentale dell’Italia meridionale

The GeoDocuM project deals with the lexical variation that characterizes the ancient legal documentation written in Latin of continental southern Italy (with parti- cular reference to the area between Campania and central-northern Puglia in a period ranging from the 8th to the 11th century), by testing a geospatial and statistical repre- sentation of the textual data. The paper focuses on the methodological issues addres- sed to enhance the local dimension, which is central in the setting up of the project.