Abstract
The program metatext1 was developed out of an application for indexing large quantities of textual data regularly over a long period of time. It turned out to be necessary to reorganize the structure of the descriptors being used at any given time. In order to improve indexing and the retrieval it was therefore decided to detach that part of the program in which the indexing takes place from the part in which the structure of the descriptors is being handled. The result of this design is a powerful tool for the collection and interpretation of historical data. The first historical sources analyzed with the help of metatext were three examples of 16th century legislation of the German Reich.2 The purpose of the thesis in progress is to analyze forms of social discipline in these sources as part of the early modern state formation. The term social discipline3, first introduced by Gerhard Oestreich, integrates Weber's theory of the development of modern society defined by reason and
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