London Governance and Middle English Literature: Pathways to Impact

伦敦治理和中古英语文学：影响之路

• 批准号: AH/M005496/1
• 负责人: Linne Mooney
• 金额: $ 10.16万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM005496%2F1
• 关键词: London; Governance; Middle; English; Literature

Professor Linne Mooney and Dr Estelle Stubbs (RA) were PI and RA on the major AHRC research grant, Identification of the Scribes Responsible for Copying Major Works of Middle English Literature, 2007-11, made a remarkable discovery in the course of their research: almost all of the earliest manuscripts of works by Geoffrey Chaucer and his contemporary late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century London writers were copied by men who held the highest bureaucratic offices at the London Guildhall. For instance, the two scribes responsible for the four earliest manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (writing two manuscripts each) were both employed as clerks in the Guildhall, one as Chamber Clerk and then Common Clerk, and the other as Recorder's Clerk. Tracing records of the lives of these men, Mooney and Stubbs further discovered that they were members of a faction of London citizenry who appear to have advocated the use of English, as opposed to French or Latin, in the conduct of business and governance in London in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Thus their literary copying may have been linked to their advocacy of English as the language of Englishmen. Mooney and Stubbs published a book for academics in 2013, but these discoveries about who were the men of influence who copied and disseminated the literary writings of Chaucer and his contemporaries in this crucial linguistic period of English history will be of interest to many more people than academic historians of the book. Through collaboration with the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) where the records upon which the discoveries were based are kept, we will now extend the reach of these new findings to a wider non-academic audience, to interest the general public in medieval London literature and government, and to increase the profile of the London Metropolitan Archives.London Metropolitan Archives will work in partnership with us to disseminate these findings to a wider audience of school learners and adults in the London area. LMA works with over 200 schools, mostly in Greater London, and has been running a schools programme for about twelve years. The staff of LMA will coordinate the production of resource learning materials related to these findings for the school subjects of literature, history, drama and art, with Stubbs and Mooney providing ideas and information from the AHRC-funded research. These sessions will relate to the National Curriculum and also to the Mayor of London's newly emerging London Curriculum. This partnership will enable LMA to extend their offer around the specialist subject of medieval history and literature, demonstrating its relevance today. Sessions developed as part of this project would be embedded in LMA's regular programmes, thus ensuring its legacy.We also propose to develop better facilities for adults to use the archival materials around which Mooney and Stubbs's findings were based through digitizing images of them and making these available in the reading rooms of the London Metropolitan Archives. This will promote access to these amazing documents while ensuring that the originals are safely preserved. London Metropolitan Archives also hosts school visits and events for adult learners in association with artists and professionals in the crafts of book production (calligraphers, book-binders, etc.) which for the duration of this project and beyond will be linked to the discoveries of Mooney and Stubbs in the AHRC Research Project. Outcomes will include learning resource materials for schools, self-learning packs, maps for self-guided tours, and digitized documents accessible in the LMA reading and education rooms, all of which will continue to be used long after completion of the project.

教授Linne Mooney和埃斯特尔斯塔布斯博士（RA）是主要AHRC研究资助的PI和RA，负责中世纪英语文学主要作品的抄写员的识别，2007-11，在他们的研究过程中取得了显着的发现：几乎所有最早的杰弗里·乔叟和他同时代的第十四晚期和第十五早期的作品手稿，世纪伦敦作家的作品都是由在伦敦市政厅担任最高官僚职位的人模仿的。例如，负责乔叟《坎特伯雷》最早的四份手稿的两名抄写员（每人写两份手稿）都是市政厅的职员，一个是会议厅办事员，然后是普通办事员，另一个是记录员办事员。穆尼和斯塔布斯追踪这些人的生活记录，进一步发现他们是伦敦公民中的一个派别的成员，该派别似乎主张在14世纪末和15世纪初的伦敦的商业和治理中使用英语，而不是法语或拉丁语。因此，他们的文学复制可能与他们倡导英语作为英国人的语言有关。穆尼和斯塔布斯在2013年出版了一本学术著作，但这些关于谁是有影响力的人的发现，他们在英国历史上这个关键的语言时期复制和传播了乔叟及其同时代人的文学作品，将比这本书的学术历史学家更感兴趣。通过与伦敦大都会档案馆（LMA）的合作，我们现在将把这些新发现的范围扩大到更广泛的非学术受众，使公众对中世纪伦敦文学和政府感兴趣，并提高伦敦大都会档案馆的知名度。伦敦大都会档案馆将与我们合作，将这些发现传播到在伦敦地区的学校学生和成年人的更广泛的观众。伦敦马会与200多所学校合作，大部分在大伦敦，并已经营了约12年的学校计划。LMA的工作人员将协调为学校的文学、历史、戏剧和艺术科目制作与这些研究结果有关的资源学习材料，Stubbs和Mooney将提供来自澳大利亚人权委员会资助的研究的想法和信息。这些会议将涉及国家课程，也是伦敦的新兴伦敦课程市长。这种伙伴关系将使LMA能够围绕中世纪历史和文学的专业主题扩展他们的报价，展示其今天的相关性。作为该项目的一部分开发的课程将嵌入LMA的常规计划中，从而确保其遗产。我们还建议为成年人开发更好的设施，以使用Mooney和Stubbs的研究结果所基于的档案材料，通过将它们的图像数字化，并在伦敦大都会档案馆的阅读室提供这些材料。这将促进对这些令人惊叹的文件的访问，同时确保原件得到安全保存。伦敦大都会档案馆还为成人学习者举办学校参观和活动，与艺术家和书籍制作工艺专业人员（书法家、装订工等）合作。在本项目期间及以后，将与AHRC研究项目中Mooney和Stubbs的发现联系起来。其成果将包括学校学习资源材料、自学包、自助图尔斯地图以及可在LMA阅读室和教育室查阅的数字化文件，所有这些都将在项目完成后长期使用。