MOWLIT: The Medieval March of Wales, c. 1282-1550: Mapping Literary Geography in a British Border Region

该项目旨在创造中世纪威尔士进军的第一个整体文化史，威尔士和英格兰之间的边界地区，在1282年至1550年期间，威尔士人、英语人和法语人居住在这里。主要目的是：(1)揭示和分析在中世纪三月产生和传播的文学文本和手稿；(2)在这一时期的不同日期点制作一系列原始的行军领主的数字地图；(3)将文本与地图联系起来，方法是绘制地图、展示主要的贵族住宅和修道院，并在地图上分发文本/手稿，显示它们的产地和阅读/拥有它们的人；(4)评估三月的文化和地域特征及其与更强大的邻国英格兰的关系。MOWLIT将是第一个系统地研究边境两侧的地缘文化政治，揭示中世纪英国这个多语言地区的文化和语言网络的新信息。这个项目将首次记录和定义一个独特的三月文化，其特点是多语言、冲突、新兴身份以及读者和作家的网络。它还将创建有史以来第一套游行者领主的地图，利用历史记录来确定领主的边界，这是以前从未被权威确定过的。通过一系列与中世纪欧洲其他边境社区专家的研讨会，将引入比较维度，从而对支撑英国和欧洲现代联邦国家历史的地区和边界身份有新的理解。由此产生的资源将为历史学家、语言学家和文学评论家提供前所未有的机会来了解威尔士游行的文化地理，为比较研究和分析开辟新的途径。

The project aims to create the first holistic cultural history of the medieval March of Wales, the borderlands between Wales and England, occupied by a diverse population of Welsh, English and French speakers in the period between 1282 and 1550. The main aims are (1) to uncover and analyse the literary texts and manuscripts produced and circulated in the medieval March; (2) to create an original series of digital maps of the Marcher lordships at various date points during the period; (3) to link the texts and the maps by means of a prosopography, a visualisation of the major gentry houses and abbeys, and a distribution of the texts/manuscripts across the maps showing where they were produced and who read/owned them; (4) to assess the cultural and regional identities of the March and its relations with its more powerful neighbour, England. MOWLIT will be the first systematic study of the geo-cultural politics of the March from both sides of the border, revealing new information about cultural and linguistic networks in this multilingual region of medieval Britain. This project will for the first time document and define a distinctive culture of the March, marked by multilingualism, conflict, emergent identities, and networks of readers and writers. It will also create the first-ever set of maps of the Marcher lordships, using historical records to determine the boundaries of the lordships which have never previously been authoritatively determined. A comparative dimension will be introduced through a series of workshops with scholars specialising in other border communities of medieval Europe, leading to new understandings of regional and border identities which underpin the histories of modern federated states in Britain and Europe. The resulting resources will provide historians, linguists, and literary critics with unprecedented access to the cultural geography of the Welsh Marches, opening up new avenues for comparative research and analysis.