Interpreting Medieval Liturgy, c. 500 - c. 1500 AD: Text and Performance

中世纪世界被广泛认为是仪式化行为在宗教、社会和政治生活中发挥重要作用的世界。礼拜仪式是中世纪记录中一个重要但研究不足的部分，很大程度上是因为随着不同的学术学科发展出自己的方法来处理这种形式的证据，对仪式的研究已经变得高度专业化和区隔。礼拜仪式给现代学者带来了特别的问题，因为它们唯一幸存的证据往往是书面文本，这些文本对实际进行的事情没有非常完美的指导。这个网络将集中在偶尔服务的证据(而不是那些弥撒和办公室)，即个人仪式，如洗礼，忏悔，埋葬，以及每年的游行，包括棕榈树主日和罗杰日；这些是位于所有中世纪基督徒，平信徒和神职人员教会生活的核心的仪式。这些服务构建了个人的生活轨迹，但也将他们与更广泛的社区联系在一起，并帮助阐明社区身份。该网络将汇集来自不同学科--历史、音乐学、神学、英国文学、戏剧研究、艺术和建筑史--的国际学者，以解决紧张局势，打破目前对这些中世纪礼拜仪式进行跨学科研究的障碍。来自美国、加拿大、丹麦、法国、荷兰、以色列和英国的学者将建立一个研究方法交流的框架。该网络将侧重于研究仪式文本本身的问题、仪式产生的背景以及文本与举行仪式的环境之间的关系。它将结合正式文件和重演中世纪晚期的仪式，以和解中世纪晚期的圣泰洛教堂，最近在加的夫的威尔士国家博物馆圣费根重新竖立和翻新。为了保证网络的连续性和最大限度地传播其研究成果，我们将制作一本编辑过的书籍和一个互动网站。对编辑的书的贡献将讨论不同的方法论问题，并旨在帮助学者新接触礼仪材料。互动网站将包括发表的每次会议的摘要，一个可供公众观看的讨论论坛，以及一部礼仪重演的电影。还将有其他网站的链接，包括圣费根，以确保向学校教师和儿童传播拍摄的重演，对他们来说，中世纪宗教是国家历史课程的一部分，并向对中世纪教堂内发生的事情感兴趣的普通公众传播。

The medieval world is widely recognised as one in which ritualized actions played an important role in religious, social and political life. Liturgical rites constitute an important yet understudied part of the medieval record, largely because the study of them has become highly specialised and compartmentalised as different academic disciplines have developed their own approaches to this form of evidence. Liturgical rites pose particular problems for modern scholars because often the only surviving evidence for them is written texts which are very imperfect guides to what was actually performed. This network will focus on the evidence for occasional services (rather than those for the Mass and the Office), that is personal rites such as for baptism, penance, and burial, as well as annual processions including Palm Sunday and the Rogation Days; these were rituals which lay at the heart of church life for all medieval Christians, lay and clerical. These services structured the course of individuals' lives, but also bound them to the wider community, and helped articulate community identities. The network will bring together international scholars from a variety of different disciplines -- history, musicology, theology, English literature, theatre studies, art and architectural history -- in order to resolve the tensions and to break down the barriers which currently exist to the interdisciplinary study of these medieval liturgical rites. Scholars drawn from the USA, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Israel and the UK will create a framework for an exchange of research methods. The network will focus on the problems of studying the texts of the rites themselves, the contexts in which they were produced, and the relationship between texts and the environment in which they were performed. It will combine formal papers with a re-enactment of a late medieval rite for the reconciliation of penitents in a late medieval church, St Teilo's, recently re-erected and re-furbished at St Fagans, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. In order to guarantee the continuity of the network and to maximise the dissemination of its research findings, we will produce an edited book and an interactive website. The contributions to the edited book will discuss different methodological problems and are intended to help scholars new to liturgical material. The interactive website will include a published summary of each meeting, a publicly-viewable discussion forum, and a film of the liturgical re-enactment. There will also be links to other websites, including St Fagans', in order to ensure the dissemination of the filmed re-enactment to school teachers and children, for whom medieval religion is part of the national curriculum in history, and to the general public interested in what went on inside medieval churches.