'Remembraunce for Confession': A Study of Memory in Late Medieval Penitential Literature

“忏悔回忆”：中世纪晚期忏悔文学中的记忆研究

• 批准号: 2260996
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kent
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2260996
• 关键词: Remembraunce; Confession; Study; Memory; Late

This thesis analyses the connection between studies of memory and practices of penance in late medieval Europe, and specifically England, and investigates cultural and literary responses to the socio-religious imperative to remember to repent. As the edicts of the Fourth Lateran Council made annual confession obligatory and stressed the need for pastoral teaching, the council occasioned the blossoming of the great and varied volume of late medieval penitential literature, and reshaped its purpose towards the education of the laity (Boyle 1985, p.31). By illuminating the pedagogical techniques deployed within penitential texts, their portrayals of penitential remembering, and codicological evidence of how readers interacted with such texts, this thesis will demonstrate how medieval theories of memory and penance interacted in light of significant cultural developments like the council. Through an unprecedented close analysis of late medieval primary sources, this thesis will recognise the abundant thematic and textual connections between medieval memory and penance, enriching our understanding of a neglected yet crucial aspect of medieval memory.

本文分析了中世纪晚期欧洲，特别是英国的记忆研究和忏悔实践之间的联系，并调查了文化和文学对社会宗教命令记住忏悔的反应。由于第四次拉特兰理事会的法令作出年度忏悔义务，并强调了牧民教学的必要性，理事会庆祝了中世纪后期悔罪文学的巨大和多样的数量开花，并重塑其对俗人的教育目的（波义耳1985年，第31页）。通过阐明忏悔文本中的教学技巧，他们对忏悔记忆的描绘，以及读者如何与这些文本互动的编纂学证据，本论文将展示中世纪记忆和忏悔理论如何在重要的文化发展（如理事会）中相互作用。通过对中世纪晚期原始资料进行前所未有的仔细分析，本文将认识到中世纪记忆和忏悔之间丰富的主题和文本联系，丰富我们对中世纪记忆中一个被忽视但至关重要的方面的理解。