The Nordic Ballad in the Context of Forms of Piety in the High and Late Middle Ages

中世纪盛期和晚期虔诚形式背景下的北欧歌谣

• 批准号: 257086843
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Klaus Böldl
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Nordische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/257086843?language=en
• 关键词: Nordic; Ballad; Context; Forms; Piety

It is possible to read the Nordic saints ballads as a manifestation of a new religious as well as lay religious mentality and practice. Their ideological and theological equivalents can be found in the devotional literature of the late Middle Ages, for instance in the Scandinavian versions of the Seelentrost. Moreover, there is an extensive variety of significant iconographic contributions in clerical art that can serve as reference material, especially the abundance of lime paintings dating back to the late Gothic period with its frequent style of depiction shaped by the influence of folkloristic elements. When subjected to closer analysis, the so-called nature-myth ballad, also displays a surprising amount of Catholic motifs and patterns of thought. In spite of the transformations this genre has undergone since the early modern age, it mirrors discourses that are characteristic of the period between the fourteenth century and the time of Reformation. Those discourses can be outlined with terms such as internalisation but also popularisation and visualisation of matters of faith. The analysis of the ballad as part of the ensemble of media employed to express piety during the late Middle Ages also importantly includes the question of what position of the church took towards lay plays and dances. The widespread assumption of a strict rejection or diabolisation is wrong. This project will examine the intermedial references between different genres of piety. It will also take a closer look at the performance of the ballad and traditions in its proximity as well as at the mental attitude of people in the late Middle Ages towards the dancing song in the broadest sense. This task will be undertaken on the basis of sermons, exempla and miracle narratives.

北欧的圣徒歌谣可以被解读为一种新的宗教以及世俗宗教心态和实践的表现。他们的意识形态和神学对等物可以在中世纪晚期的虔诚文学中找到，例如在斯堪的纳维亚版本的Seelentrost中。此外，在文书艺术中有各种各样的重要图像贡献，可以作为参考材料，特别是大量的石灰画，可以追溯到哥特式晚期，其频繁的描绘风格受到民俗元素的影响。当受到更仔细的分析，所谓的自然神话民谣，也显示了令人惊讶的天主教主题和思维模式的数量。尽管这一体裁自近代以来经历了种种转变，但它反映了十四世纪至宗教改革时期的话语特征。这些话语可以用诸如内在化，但也可以用信仰问题的普及化和可视化等术语来概括。在中世纪晚期，民谣是用来表达虔诚的媒体组合的一部分，对民谣的分析也重要地包括了教会对世俗戏剧和舞蹈的立场问题。普遍假设严格拒绝或恶魔化是错误的。这个项目将研究不同类型的虔诚之间的中介参考。它还将仔细研究民谣和传统的表现，以及中世纪晚期人们对舞蹈歌曲的最广泛意义上的精神态度。这项任务将在布道，范例和奇迹叙述的基础上进行。