The Narrative Dissemination of Religious Knowledge: Publication and Commentary of Spiritual Lyrical and Prose Texts from the 13th to the 16th century

在13世纪到16世纪的羊皮纸和纸质手稿中，有大量以前被忽视的，在某些情况下不为人知的世俗和宗教短叙事文本幸存下来。在科隆大学和<s:1>宾根大学进行的一项为期八年的编辑项目成功完成后，有关中世纪德国世俗故事的诗歌(vgl。http://www.versnovellistik.uni-koeln.de/8149.html)，已获得发展基金的资助，以制作经常在同一集体手稿中传播的简短精神文本的最新版本。第二个项目也计划为期八年，将在科隆和<s:1>宾根进行，题为：“宗教知识的叙事传播：13至16世纪精神诗歌和散文文本评论的新版本”。总共179种不同文学体裁和风格的精神文本将首次向专家和非专业人士开放。每一个都以叙事的方式传达宗教知识，在许多情况下也以论述的方式传达，但从来没有明确的；它们在手稿收藏中的反复编辑和整理使整个中世纪的接受者能够讨论和理解与基督教宗教信仰有关的复杂问题。在这个重要的新版本中，这些文本的出版将为德国中世纪和近代早期的一组重要的“流行”文学作品提供轮廓-这是一个以前没有得到适当认识或研究的大量材料。在前现代交流的条件下，正是这种文献帮助创造了一种情况，在这种情况下，“[…]改革者能够建立在一个世俗社区的基础上，这个社区为宗教问题的基本争论做好了充分的准备，并且能够独立思考”（威廉姆斯-克拉普）。该项目将出版印刷版、电子书和开放获取电子版。这本书和网络版都将包含关键文本和英文翻译。印刷版还将包含文本的备选版本以及文学历史评论，而在线版本将包含许多手稿和早期印刷品的数字图像的实现链接，完整的变体集以及文本批评方面的多层评论，构成和起源的情况以及解释问题。

A significant number of previously neglected and in some cases unknown short narrative texts, both secular and religious, survive today in parchment and paper manuscripts from the 13th to the 16th centuries. Following the successful completion of an eight-year editorial project, undertaken at the Universities of Cologne and Tübingen, concerning medieval German secular tales in verse (vgl. http://www.versnovellistik.uni-koeln.de/8149.html), DFG-funding has been secured to produce an up-to-date edition of the short spiritual texts that are so often transmitted in the same collective manuscripts. This second project, which also has a planned duration of eight years and will be undertaken in Cologne and Tübingen, is entitled: “The Narrative Dissemination of Religious Knowledge: New edition with commentary of spiritual verse and prose texts from the 13th to the 16th century”. A total of 179 spiritual texts of different literary genres and styles will hereby be made available to specialists and non-specialists alike for the first time. Each one conveys religious knowledge narratively, and in many cases also discursively, but never unambiguously; and their repeated compilation and arrangement in manuscript collections enabled recipients throughout the Middle Ages to discuss and understand intricate problems pertaining to Christian religious belief. The publication of these texts in this major new edition will give contour to an important group of ‘popular’ literary works from Germany’s medieval and early modern past – a large body of material that has not been properly recognized or researched before. Under the conditions of pre-modern communication it was precisely this literature that helped to create a situation in which “[…] reformers were able to build on a lay community who were sufficiently prepared for fundamental disputes over religious issues and [were] capable of independent thought” (Williams-Krapp). The project will produce a print edition as well as an e-book and a digital, Open Access edition. Both the book and the online edition will contain the critical texts and an English translation. The print edition will also contain a selection of alternative versions of the texts as well as a literary-historical commentary, while the online edition will contain implemented links to the digital images of numerous manuscripts and early prints, the complete set of variants as well as multi-layered commentaries on aspects of textual criticism, circumstances of composition and origins and matters of interpretation.