Sermon in context: Function and functionality of vernacular sermon in the Late Middle Ages

研究项目“Predigt im Kontext”旨在统一已收集了几十年并以不同方式和地点出版的中世纪手稿的广泛信息。它的目的是探索中世纪布道的综合投资组合的功能，并阐明这些功能如何随着时间的推移而变化。为此目的，该项目侧重于分析传播的讲道（在目录和版本中提供）归因于多米尼加传教士梅斯特埃克哈特和/或约翰塔霍维约450手稿。分析的统计和经验结果在一个逐步发展的在线数据库中公开提供，该数据库提供广泛的不同搜索选项。收集到的数据使我们能够汇集现有文本版本中已有的手稿的详细信息，以及对（寺院）图书馆馆藏的研究。 这些数据有助于详细了解中世纪布道传播的背景和联系。 对具体的中世纪媒介的关注-手稿及其汇编-以及“布道”这一体裁的许多不同功能，为传统版本提供了一种有条不紊的替代方案，传统版本侧重于作者和个人传教士的“作品”的识别。一般来说，中世纪白话讲道不作为单一作者的集合传输，因为我们的现代版本建议。通常我们会在手稿中发现它们是按主题或礼仪（根据教会日历）排序的，只有在中世纪后期，旧材料的新汇编才向某些既定当局提供虚构的投资组合分配。除了关注这一重要的冲突领域，关于中世纪的作者身份和认证的理解，该项目提供了系统的检查体裁“布道”。由于其简短，文学产品讲道是暴露在最多样化的模式组合的文本内的手稿作为物理媒介的传输。 “Predigt im Kontext”项目的目的是统一、具体化和分析这些传播特征，以便准确描述布道及其收藏功能的变化。这样，我们就能够更准确地了解文本的接受者、他们的意图以及他们的文学文化。

The research project "Predigt im Kontext" aims to unite widespread information on medieval manuscripts that has been collected for many decades and published in different ways and places. Its intention is to explore the functions of a comprehensive portfolio of medieval sermons, and to elucidate how these functions changed in the course of time. For this purpose the project focuses on analyzing the transmission of sermons (made accessible in catalogues and editions) attributed to the Dominican preachers Meister Eckhart and/or John Tauler in approximately 450 manuscripts. The statistical and empirical results of the analysis are made publicly available in a gradually developing online-database, which provides a wide range of different search options. The collected data makes it possible to bring together detailed information on manuscripts already available in existing text editions and from studies on the holdings of (monastic) libraries. This amount of data facilitates a detailed insight into the contexts and connections of medieval sermon transmission. The focus on concrete medieval media - manuscripts and their compilation - and the many different functions of the genre "sermon" offer a methodical alternative to traditional editions, which are focused on authors and the identification of the "opus" of an individual preacher. Spoken in general, medieval vernacular sermons are not transmitted as single author collections, as our modern editions suggest. Usually we find them ordered thematically or liturgically (according to the church calendar) in the manuscripts, and it is only late in the Middle Ages that new compilations of old material offer fictitious allocations of the portfolios to certain established authorities. In addition to focusing on this important area of conflict concerning the medieval understanding of authorship and authentication, the project offers systematical examinations on the genre "sermon". Because of its brevity, the literary product sermon is exposed to the most diverse patterns of combination of texts within the manuscripts as physical media of transmission. It is the intention of the project "Predigt im Kontext" to unite, specify and analyse these characteristics of the transmission in order to describe precisely the change of functions of sermons and their collections. Thus we will be able to obtain a more accurate picture of the recipients of the texts, of their intentions, and their literary culture.