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A Newly Discovered Account of Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: an Annotated Edition, Contextual Essays and Resources for Heritage Interpretation

新发现的本·琼森徒步苏格兰的记述：注释版、上下文文章和遗产解读资源

基本信息

批准号：
AH/I000135/1
负责人：
James Loxley
金额：
$ 40.98万
依托单位：
University of Edinburgh
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2011 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI000135%2F1
关键词：
Newly Discovered Account Ben Jonson

项目摘要

In February 2009 James Loxley discovered a manuscript containing an account of Ben Jonson's celebrated 1618 walk to Edinburgh among papers deposited in Chester Archives. Although this walk was one of the most eye-catching episodes in Jonson's life, we have had little knowledge of exactly when it was undertaken, why, and what might have transpired along the way. The 7,500 word account promises to change this situation profoundly. Entitled 'My Gossip Joh[n]son his foot voyage and mine into Scotland', it appears to have been written by a hitherto unsuspected companion. Furthermore, it provides a day-by-day narrative of the travellers' adventures, including crucial information on where and with whom they dined and stayed, and their adventures along the way. Given the rarity and academic value of such a source, and it is of the utmost importance that a fully annotated text is made available to all those to whom it might be relevant as quickly as possible. For this reason, Loxley and Julie Sanders have undertaken to collaborate on the production of such an edition.But the account presents substantial challenges. For a start, the manuscript's provenance is uncertain, and in form and content it is quite unlike the items that make up the rest of the collection in which it was found. The account is unsigned, and there is no internal evidence that would allow us easily to determine its authorship. It is also not certain that the hand in which it is written is that of the traveller himself. So significant archival and palaeographic work is necessary to explore these questions. The profusion of names in the account presents a further challenge: more than 240 separate individuals are mentioned, many of whom are neither well known or well documented in secondary sources. Full investigation of these people will allow the editors and future researchers to draw out potentially significant patterns of association and affiliation. Our research will therefore require substantial work on archival sources in order to allow us to annotate these names as thoroughly as possible.The project will also seek to set the account in a series of relevant contexts, in order to establish its significance for an academic audience that includes not only Jonson scholars, or specialists in early modern literature, but also those with interests in cultural geography and the history of the people and places visited. The critical edition will therefore be published with contextual essays, addressing the cultural significance of walking in early modern England, the influence of this journey on Jonson's work, the light it shines on non-metropolitan social networks, and early modern literary celebrity. In undertaking this contextual work, the team will take due account of recent interdisciplinary developments in the study of early modern travel, and in particular in their theoretical and methodological implications; we will also ensure that our work is informed by the extensive research undertaken for the new Cambridge edition of Jonson.But we also want to ensure that such an engaging account is made available to a wider range of beneficiaries. The narrative identifies the places visited by Jonson and his companion, and gives intriguing details of their activities at many of them. A large proportion of these places are now in the care of heritage bodies, or are the object of historical interpretation for modern visitors by owners and custodians. This account illuminates the history of those sites in themselves and as places to visit, and could add colour and detail to their interpretation. Working with a specialist consultant, we will convene a presentation and workshop to disseminate our discoveries to custodians and interpreters, to discuss with them the relevance and usefulness of such sources to their interpretative work, and to feed into resource packs which we will provide to participants and others for use in developing their own materials.

2009 年 2 月，詹姆斯·洛克斯利 (James Loxley) 在切斯特档案馆存放的文件中发现了一份手稿，其中记载了本·琼森 1618 年徒步前往爱丁堡的著名经历。尽管这次散步是琼森一生中最引人注目的事件之一，但我们对它的具体时间、原因以及沿途可能发生的事情知之甚少。这篇 7,500 字的叙述有望深刻改变这种情况。这封信的标题是“我的流言蜚语约翰的徒步航行和我进入苏格兰的旅程”，似乎是由一位迄今为止未被怀疑的同伴写的。此外，它还提供了旅行者冒险经历的日常叙述，包括他们在哪里、与谁一起用餐和住宿的重要信息，以及他们沿途的冒险经历。鉴于这种来源的稀有性和学术价值，最重要的是尽快向所有可能与之相关的人提供完整注释的文本。出于这个原因，洛克斯利和朱莉·桑德斯已承诺合作制作这样一个版本。但该帐户提出了巨大的挑战。首先，这份手稿的出处并不确定，而且在形式和内容上，它与发现它的其他藏品的内容完全不同。该帐户未签名，并且没有内部证据可以让我们轻松确定其作者身份。也不能确定它的书写者是旅行者本人。因此，需要进行大量的档案和古文献工作来探索这些问题。账户中的大量名字带来了进一步的挑战：提到了 240 多个不同的个人，其中许多人既不为人所知，也没有在二手资料中得到充分记录。对这些人的全面调查将使编辑和未来的研究人员能够找出潜在的重要关联和隶属模式。因此，我们的研究需要对档案来源进行大量工作，以便我们能够尽可能彻底地注释这些名字。该项目还将寻求在一系列相关背景下进行叙述，以便确定其对学术受众的意义，这些受众不仅包括琼森学者或早期现代文学专家，还包括那些对文化地理学以及所访问的人和地方的历史感兴趣的人。因此，评论版将与背景文章一起出版，讨论在早期现代英格兰行走的文化意义、这次旅行对琼森作品的影响、它对非都市社交网络的影响，以及早期现代文学名人。在开展这项背景工作时，团队将适当考虑早期现代旅行研究的最新跨学科发展，特别是其理论和方法论的影响；我们还将确保我们的工作以新剑桥版 Jonson 进行的广泛研究为基础。但我们也希望确保向更广泛的受益人提供这样一个引人入胜的帐户。叙述中指出了琼森和他的同伴访问过的地方，并提供了他们在其中许多地方活动的有趣细节。这些地方很大一部分现在由遗产机构管理，或者成为业主和保管人为现代游客解释历史的对象。这个叙述阐明了这些遗址本身和作为游览地点的历史，并可以为它们的解释增添色彩和细节。我们将与专业顾问合作，召开一次演示和研讨会，向保管人和口译员传播我们的发现，与他们讨论这些来源与其口译工作的相关性和有用性，并将其纳入我们将提供给参与者和其他人用于开发自己的材料的资源包中。