Kaiserchronik: Literature and History in the German Middle Ages

Kaiserchronik：德国中世纪的文学与历史

• 批准号: AH/J006513/1
• 负责人: Christopher Young
• 金额: $ 100.84万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ006513%2F1
• 关键词: Kaiserchronik; Literature; History; German; Middle

The Kaiserchronik (Chronicle of Emperors) is one of the great monuments of medieval literature. Chronicling the reigns of Roman and German kings and emperors, from the earliest times to the twelfth century, it projects a magnificent historical sweep in which the German-speaking peoples and their rulers feature as actors on the stage of ancient history and heirs to the legacy of Rome as capital of the Christian West.Completed around 1150 in Germany, the Kaiserchronik was written at the same time as two works of dynastically inspired history from Britain and the Anglo-Norman world: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, famous for sparking off the medieval fascination with the figure of King Arthur, and the Roman de Brut, an adaptation of Geoffrey's history by Jersey-born poet Wace. Like the Kaiserchronik, these histories recount the exploits of kings and rulers in chronological order, and use the past to justify contemporary political arrangements and foster a sense of cultural identity. Yet the Kaiserchronik is nothing like as well known as Geoffrey and Wace, despite the fact that it is the first verse chronicle to have been written in any European language and despite its importance for literary, linguistic and historical studies alike. This project will secure for the work the profile it deserves.The project team is based in Cambridge and assembles internationally outstanding experts in the fields of medieval literature, language and history from the UK and Germany. Over five years, they will produce the first-ever complete edition of the Kaiserchronik: not just the original, twelfth-century version, but also the two major reworkings of it that were made around 1200 and 1250 - testimony to the work's continuing relevance for a medieval readership. The three versions will be printed side by side, and in order to make the German text accessible to scholars worldwide, it will be accompanied by an English translation, plus full introduction and commentary (also in English). As well as the scholarly edition in three volumes, totalling around 1800 pages, the project will produce an inexpensive single-volume edition for student use.In addition to the editorial work, the project team will research the literary and historical background to the chronicle: the twelfth-century context from which it emerged, and the reasons for its enduring appeal over the following four and a half centuries (the last known manuscript dates from 1594). The results will flow into the introduction and commentary of the edition, and will also be presented to a wider medieval research community at international conferences and in special issues of academic journals. Taken together, the team's research findings will yield a complete understanding of the extraordinary cultural resonance of the Kaiserchronik over such a long period of time, and offer a transformative reassessment of the place of history-writing in the development of German literature in the Middle Ages. Fifty original manuscripts of the Kaiserchronik - an unusually high number for a work of this kind - have survived. Because of their geographical and chronological spread, they constitute a precious data source in particular for literary and linguistic scholars. To make them fully exploitable, the project will digitize all the manuscripts and place them on open access via the Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. This site, which (in collaboration with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France) already hosts the digital manuscripts of the most famous medieval love allegory, the Roman de la Rose, will guarantee sustained international exposure for the Kaiserchronik and the project.

《皇帝纪事》是中世纪文学的伟大纪念碑之一。它记录了从最早的时代到12世纪罗马和德国的国王和皇帝的统治，展现了一场宏伟的历史扫荡，讲德语的民族和他们的尺子在古代历史的舞台上扮演演员，并作为罗马作为西方基督教首都的遗产的继承人。凯撒编年史于1150年左右在德国完成，与来自不列颠和盎格鲁-诺曼世界的两部王朝启发的历史作品同时撰写：蒙茅斯的杰弗里的《不列颠国王史》，以激发中世纪对亚瑟王的迷恋而闻名，以及罗马的德布鲁特，泽西岛出生的诗人华斯根据杰弗里的历史改编而成。和皇帝一样，这些历史按照时间顺序讲述了国王和尺子的功绩，并利用过去来证明当代政治安排的合理性，并培养一种文化认同感。然而，凯撒编年史并不像杰弗里和华斯那样广为人知，尽管它是第一部用欧洲语言写成的诗歌编年史，尽管它对文学、语言和历史研究都很重要。这个项目将确保它的工作名副其实。项目团队总部设在剑桥，汇集了来自英国和德国的中世纪文学、语言和历史领域的国际杰出专家。在五年的时间里，他们将制作出有史以来第一个完整的凯撒编年史：不仅是12世纪的原始版本，而且还包括1200年和1250年左右对其进行的两次主要重新制作-证明了这部作品对中世纪读者的持续相关性。这三个版本将并排印刷，为了使世界各地的学者能够阅读德文文本，它将附有英文翻译，以及完整的导言和评论(也是英文)。除了总共1800页的三卷本学术版外，该项目还将制作供学生使用的廉价单卷版。除了编辑工作外，项目团队还将研究编年史的文学和历史背景：它产生的12世纪背景，以及它在接下来的四个半世纪(最后已知的手稿可以追溯到1594年)保持吸引力的原因。结果将纳入版本的导言和评论中，并将在国际会议和学术期刊的特刊上向更广泛的中世纪研究社区展示。综上所述，该团队的研究成果将对德意志帝国在如此长的一段时间内产生的非凡的文化共鸣产生全面的理解，并对历史写作在中世纪德国文学发展中的地位进行革命性的重新评估。50份凯撒大帝的原始手稿幸存下来--对于这类作品来说，这是一个异常高的数字。由于它们在地理和时间上的分布，它们构成了宝贵的数据来源，特别是对文学和语言学者来说。为了充分利用这些手稿，该项目将把所有手稿数字化，并通过巴尔的摩约翰·霍普金斯大学谢里登图书馆的中世纪手稿数字图书馆开放获取。该网站(与法国国家图书馆合作)已经拥有最著名的中世纪爱情寓言《罗曼·德拉玫瑰》的数字手稿，将保证凯撒大帝和该项目持续的国际曝光率。

项目成果

The 'Kaiserchronik' and its three recensions

“Kaiserchronik”及其三个修订版

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.35183
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Chinca M

Kaiserchronik-Digital

Kaiserchronik-Digital

• DOI: 10.11588/edition.kcd
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Chinca, M

Responsible Philology. Editing the 'Kaiserchronik' in the Digital Age

负责任的语言学。

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.11958
• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Chinca M

Uses of the Past in Twelfth-Century Germany: The Case of the Middle High German Kaiserchronik

十二世纪德国过去时的运用：中古高地德语 Kaiserchronik 的案例

• DOI: 10.1017/s0008938916000030
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Central European History
• 作者: Chinca M

Responsible Philology: Editing the Kaiserchronik in the Digital Age

负责任的语言学：数字时代编辑《Kaiserchronik》

• DOI: 10.1353/dph.2017.0015
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
• 作者: Chinca M