Ovide en français. Genesis, Transformation and Reception of the Ovide Moralisé

本项目的目的是研究自14世纪以来，奥维德《变形记》的拉丁文本在法国奥维德道德文学中所受到的文化适应过程。调查从奥维德道德手稿开始，这些手稿包含了注释，有时还包含了精心设计的图像方案，最重要的是，分成了几个非常不同的版本。对法国手稿以及后来的散文和印刷版本的研究，使我们能够看到拉丁文本在法国中世纪是如何被理解的。通过这项研究，我们可以清楚地看到，中世纪文本最独特的特征——即“道德化”——有时会成为传播的障碍，因为道德化导致文本扩展到72000行八音节双句。《奥维德道德观》的一些手稿省略了道德说教，因此成为《变形记》的简单翻译，但它们仍然帮助我们了解拉丁语文本是如何被基督教中世纪同化的。在整个翻译过程中，法语抄写员会发现他们面对的文本对他们来说已经变得陌生了。今天，这些手稿显示了这种缺乏理解的迹象，这些有时无意识的修改尤其说明了从一种文化到另一种文化的过渡。通过艺术史学家、词汇学家以及法国和拉丁文学专家的合作，我们将通过这个项目了解一篇文本的生命周期，它使西方文化的奠基作品之一从古典时期传到中世纪，然后传到文艺复兴时期，从拉丁语传到法语，从牧师的背景传到普通读者，从诗歌到散文，从手稿到印刷形式。对大部分尚未被发掘的文献所包含的语言、图像、注释和评论的研究，将产生精确的研究，其重要性将超出奥维德道德研究的领域，因为它们将阐明对一种既截然不同又非常相似的文化的同化。在这一具体目标之上，还有一个进一步的战略研究目标。通过这个实际上已经在欧洲开展的两国项目，我们将努力扩大中世纪文学研究的边界，以涵盖一种研究“前现代书籍”的新方法，在这种方法中，相关学科的专家可以进入对话。

Zusammenfassung (englisch) The aim of the present project is to study the process of acculturation towhich the Latin text of Ovid¿s Metamorphoses is subjected, from the 14thcentury onwards, in the French Ovide moralisé. The investigation begins withthe manuscripts of the Ovide moralisé, which contain glosses and sometimeselaborate iconographic schemes, and, above all, branch into several verydifferent versions. A study of the French manuscripts, as well as ofsubsequent prose and printed versions of the text, enables us to see how theLatin text was understood in the French Middle Ages. Through this study itbecomes clear that the very feature which was most distinctive of the textin the medieval period ¿ namely the ¿moralisations¿ which cause the text toexpand into 72000 lines of octosyllablic couplets ¿ sometimes becomes anobstacle to its diffusion. Some manuscripts of the Ovide moralisé omit themoralisations and so become simple translations of the Metamorphoses, butthey nonetheless help us to see how the Latin text was assimilated into theChristian Middle Ages. Throughout the process of translation, French scribescould find themselves confronted with a text which had become unfamiliar tothem. Today, the manuscripts bear the signs of this lack of understanding,and these sometimes unconscious modifications are especially telling of thetransition from one culture to another.Through the collaboration of art historians, lexicologists, and specialistsin French and Latin literature, we shall through this project gain anunderstanding of the life cycle of a text which allowed one of the foundingworks of western culture to pass from the Classical period to the MiddleAges and then the Renaissance, from Latin to French, from a clerical milieuto a lay readership, from verse to prose, and from manuscripts to printedform. The examination of the language, iconography, glosses and commentariescontained by documents which are still largely unexplored will yield precisestudies which will have an importance extending beyond the domain of theOvide moralisé, for they will shed light on the assimilation of a culturewhich is at once quite different and yet remarkably similar.Atop this concrete goal there is also a further strategic researchobjective. Through this bi-national project ¿ which in fact is alreadyEuropean ¿ we shall strive to expand the borders of medieval literary studyto encompass a new approach towards the ¿pre-modern book¿, in whichspecialists in related disciplines can enter into dialogue.