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The contextual control of meaning: Saint Christopher in late Anglo-Saxon England

意义的语境控制：盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰晚期的圣克里斯托弗

基本信息

批准号：
320970742
负责人：
Dr. Simon Thomson
金额：
--
依托单位：
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2015-12-31 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/320970742?language=en
关键词：
contextual control meaning Saint Christopher

项目摘要

I intend to explore evidence for the processes of reading and of interpretation in late Anglo-Saxon England, taking as a test-case the different versions of the passion of Saint Christopher available there. The Christopher narrative is ideal for this kind of work: the saint seems to have gathered popularity quickly in the mid- to late-tenth century, with multiple versions of his story extant in English, Irish, and Continental manuscripts in Latin, English, and other vernacular languages. Past research by a range of scholars has started to develop an understanding of the relationships between different witnesses to the Old English text, and my contribution will be to clarify these relationships. Moreover, I intend to go significantly further than this past work. My aim is not just to establish the development of particular textual traditions but to consider reasons for the variation in the representations of a single figure and how these variations map out across time and place in early medieval Europe. In particular, I will seek to identify how interpretations or uses of the legend may have varied through the use of different narrative details, intertextual setting within manuscripts, and scribal presentation. Data gathered about the life and its variants, in Latin and Old English, will be made available for other scholars to use on projects about orthography, hagiography, linguistics, and manuscript production. I will use the data to analyse the narrative and descriptive variations in connection with place and date of origin and with communities and production and use. This research will contribute to a growing body of understanding about contextual and communal uses to which narratives were put, and about how scribes and compilers of manuscripts worked to shape such narratives. It will also contribute to a current growth of interest in saints' lives as the most popular and widespread narrative form in the medieval period.

我打算探索盎格鲁-撒克逊晚期英格兰的阅读和解释过程的证据，并将那里的圣克里斯托弗受难记的不同版本作为一个测试案例。克里斯托弗的叙述是这类作品的理想之选：这位圣徒似乎在世纪中后期迅速流行起来，他的故事有多种版本，有英语、爱尔兰语和欧洲大陆的拉丁语、英语和其他方言的手稿。许多学者过去的研究已经开始理解古英语文本的不同见证者之间的关系，我的贡献将是澄清这些关系。此外，我打算比过去的工作走得更远。我的目标不仅是建立特定文本传统的发展，而且要考虑单个人物的表现形式变化的原因，以及这些变化如何在中世纪早期欧洲的时间和地点上映射出来。特别是，我将试图确定如何解释或使用的传说可能已经通过使用不同的叙事细节，互文设置在手稿，和抄写的介绍。收集到的关于生活及其变体的数据，在拉丁语和古英语中，将提供给其他学者用于正字法，圣徒传，语言学和手稿制作的项目。我将使用这些数据来分析与原产地和日期以及与社区和生产和使用有关的叙述和描述性变化。这项研究将有助于越来越多地了解叙事的背景和公共用途，以及手稿的抄写员和编纂者如何塑造这种叙事。它也将有助于目前对圣徒生活的兴趣的增长，作为中世纪时期最流行和最广泛的叙事形式。