Reform as Text Strategy. Studies on the Literary Oeuvre of Johannes Meyer O.P.

这项研究项目的目标是全面探索多米尼加观察家和编年史家约翰尼斯·迈耶(Johannes Meyer，1422/23-1485)的德语和拉丁语著作。所选择的研究方法是基于文本类型和功能、叙事学和话语历史等方面。五组历史上传播的文本，代表和组成了约翰尼斯·迈耶几乎完整的修道院著作，应在专著的框架内进行审查。这项研究的目的不仅是从文化史和多米尼加教会史的角度对这一重大作品进行分类，而且最引人注目的是考虑到它在中世纪晚期的虔诚神学(或由Berndt Hamm引入的术语Frömmikeitstheology)的背景下的地位以及它对15世纪德国文学的原始贡献。因此，很大程度上被忽视的文本语料库得到了关于15世纪宗教文学的学术讨论的应有的关注，额外的动机和重点是理解改革和宗教改革的关系。站在他那个时代的中心尤其是文学话语模式(多米尼加秩序和改革；历史/虔诚神学；历史学；圣徒传记；神秘主义的接受；作者身份；复述；百科全书文学)的角度来看，迈耶斯的文本进一步打开了示范分析和描述这些不同的、偶尔相互依存的论述领域和实践的可能性。这项研究将补充两个中等长度的文本(Papst-和Kaiserchronik Predigerordens)的版本，学术文学分析明确提到了这两个文本，但到目前为止还没有印刷版。该版本不仅将推进迈耶斯德文全集的文本批判性探索，而且还将是Buchder Reformacio Predigerordens新的批判性版本的试点项目，该项目将在本申请范围之外的后续项目中进行。

The goal of this research project is a comprehensive exploration of the German and Latin writings of the Dominican Observant and chronicler Johannes Meyer (1422/23-1485). The chosen approach of study is based on aspects of text typology and function, narratology and of the history of discourse. Five historically transmitted groups of texts, which represent and comprise nearly the complete monastic writings of Johannes Meyer, shall be examined within the framework of a monograph. The research aims to classify this significant oeuvre not only from the perspective of cultural history and of the history of the Dominican order, but most notably in view of its position in the context of the theology of piety (or Frömmigkeitstheologie, as the term was introduced by Berndt Hamm) of the late Middle Ages as well as with respect to its original contribution to the German literature of the 15th century. Hence the largely neglected text corpus is given the deserved attention of a scholarly discussion on religious literature of the 15th century, with additional incentive and emphasis to the understanding of the relationship of Reform and Reformation. From the standpoint of an authors oeuvre at the junction of central and especially literary modes of discourse of his time (Dominican Order and Reform; History/Theology of Piety; Historiography; Hagiography; Reception of Mysticism; Authorship; Retextualization; Encyclopedic Literature), Meyers texts furthermore open the possibility to exemplarily analyse and describe these diverse and occasionally interdependent discursive fields and practices. This study will be supplemented with an edition of two texts of moderate length (Papst- and Kaiserchronik Predigerordens), to which the scholarly literary analysis explicitly refers, but which to date have not been available in a printed edition. The edition will not only advance the text-critical exploration of Meyers German oeuvre, but will also be a pilot project for a new critical edition of the Buch der Reformacio Predigerordens, which is to be pursued in a subsequent project outside of the scope of this application.