Transcience and eternity. Confrontation and Interconnection of Different Types of Temporal Semantics in Medieval Journeys to the Beyond

超越性和永恒性。

• 批准号: 407041397
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Andreas Bihrer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Historisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/407041397?language=en
• 关键词: Transcience; eternity.; Confrontation; Interconnection; Different

While the finiteness of human existence remains an anthropological constant, its perception and coping strategies are highly variable across history and cultures. The experience of the irreversibility of death generates manifold social practices, which aim to transcend mortality. To approach these phenomena in a historically adequate way, the various interpretive patterns must be found through which each respective coping with mortal transience becomes observable. This project examines the different types of temporal semantics of eternity and transience dealt with in medieval visionary literature. The subject of this study are Latin accounts of otherworld journeys from the High Middle Ages (12th century) as well as their Late Medieval translations into German (15th century), which are transmitted in combination with texts on the Ars moriendi. These written records are fluid texts, existing at the intersection of revelation, account and lore. Therefore the approach in this project is interdisciplinary and will be implemented by employing methods from both history and literary studies.Central to the analysis are narratives that reflect transience through different temporalities, in the intertwining of individual mortality and the end of the world, deliverance and eternity through visionary journeys to the afterlife. The journey narrative constitutes a particularly well-suited medium for this purpose since temporality is substantiated in corporeal and spatial experience and can thus be experienced and illustrated.The different temporal semantics of the linearly progressing journey and salvation history, eternity and individual mortality, eternal damnation and redemption should not be seen as inconsistent. These juxtapositions should rather be examined as to what concepts of meaning and processing in dealing with transience are developed here.Journeys to the hereafter provide a potent set of interpretive offerings for the Christian Middle Ages. In the Latin texts of journeys to the afterlife since the 12th century, there is a developing concurrency of experienced time, life time and expectation of the prospects ahead (be they salvation or the apocalypse). Medieval otherworld journeys thus establish a particular relation of symbolism and worldly reference over the negotiated prospects of punishment and penance, which the numerous written records continually refine, expand and modify. These processes of de- and re-stabilization are emergent phenomena of the interaction of theology, ecclesiastical law and lived piety. The study of this interplay, the main goal of this project, promises precise insights into the coping with mortality in those societies and groups that record, edit and disseminate these texts, as well as into the universal ideas of transcendence established by western Christianity.

虽然人类存在的有限性仍然是一个人类学常数，但其感知和应对策略在不同的历史和文化中是高度不同的。对死亡不可逆转性的体验产生了多种旨在超越死亡的社会实践。为了以一种历史上适当的方式接近这些现象，必须找到各种解释模式，通过这些模式，每个人对人类短暂性的处理都是可以观察到的。这个项目考察了中世纪幻想文学中不同类型的永恒和短暂的时间语义。本研究的主题是中世纪盛期（12世纪）的拉丁世界之旅，以及中世纪晚期译成德语的文献（15世纪），这些文献与Ars moriendi上的文献结合传播。这些书面记录是流动的文本，存在于启示，叙述和爱的交叉点。因此，这个项目的方法是跨学科的，并将采用历史和文学研究的方法来实施。分析的核心是通过不同的时间性来反映短暂性的叙述，在个人死亡和世界末日的交织中，通过对来世的幻想之旅来反映解脱和永恒。旅行叙事是实现这一目的的一个特别合适的媒介，因为时间性在物质和空间经验中得到证实，因此可以被体验和说明。线性推进的旅程和救赎历史、永恒和个人死亡、永恒的诅咒和救赎的不同时间语义不应被视为不一致。这些并列应该被检查一下，在处理短暂性时，这里发展了什么意义和处理的概念。前往来世的旅程为中世纪的基督教提供了一套强有力的解释。自12世纪以来，在关于来世之旅的拉丁文献中，经历时间、生命时间和对未来前景的期望（无论是救赎还是世界末日）都在不断发展。因此，中世纪的另一个世界之旅建立了一种特殊的象征和世俗参考关系，而不是惩罚和忏悔的谈判前景，这是众多书面记录不断完善，扩展和修改的。这些去稳定化和再稳定化的过程是神学、教会律法和生活虔诚相互作用的涌现现象。对这种相互作用的研究，这个项目的主要目标，保证了对那些记录、编辑和传播这些文本的社会和群体应对死亡的精确见解，以及对西方基督教建立的超越的普遍思想的研究。