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

本文分析了记忆研究与中世纪晚期欧洲，特别是英格兰的忏悔实践之间的联系，并研究了对社会宗教要求记住忏悔的文化和文学反应。随着第四届拉特兰理事会的法令规定每年必须忏悔并强调牧区教学的必要性，理事会引起了中世纪晚期大量不同数量的忏悔文学的涌现，并重塑了对俗人的教育目的(博伊尔1985，第31页)。通过说明忏悔文本中的教学技巧，他们对忏悔记忆的刻画，以及读者如何与这些文本互动的编码学证据，本文将展示中世纪的记忆和忏悔理论是如何根据议会等重大文化发展相互作用的。通过对中世纪晚期原始资料的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，丰富了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。

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.