The Reception of Dreams in Early Modern Italian Popular Culture - 1450-1550.

现代早期意大利流行文化中梦的接受 - 1450-1550。

• 批准号: 2269673
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 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-2269673
• 关键词: Reception; Dreams; Early; Modern; Italian

"Dreams are one of the few common threads of experience tying together all cultures, serving an influential purpose in the production of popular culture. Yet surprisingly, few comprehensive studies exist of dreams and their reception within popular culture in Renaissance Italy. Not only is the literature of dreams alone worthy of analysis, its impact on popular culture can be linked to common human experience and everyday practices by a close examination of print culture. Furthermore, a transcultural approach is vital. I want to investigate the process of transmission and reception in the face of continual effacement of Arabic and Islamic influence on Renaissance Italian dream literature. This innovative study of Renaissance dream culture will contribute to the already rich historiography on visions, inspiration, and genius in the Italian Renaissance. The project will address a set of defined questions. Primarily, how did popular audiences interpret their dreams, and did this shape how they navigated everyday life? Secondly, how did contradictory views of dreaming within the Catholic Church shape people's interpretations of dreams? Moreover, how did women interpret their dreams? Finally, to what extent did Arabic texts influence popular interpretations of dreams, and to what extent were audiences aware of it? There is a lack of precise study on the process of contemporary and historiographical effacement and how the Arabic influence was removed from popular consciousness. However, Saif (2015), Oberhelman (2016), and Knysh (2012) largely set the precedent in showing how the sources I wish to analyse overlap with Islamic ideas. I aim to contribute to an existing debate about the cross-cultural exchanges between Renaissance Italian and Arabic literature. Within historiographical literature on dreams, Ruvoldt is at the forefront. Ruvoldt traces the origins of dream theory to creation and production of visual imagery. Ruvoldt wished to connect dreams to a 'larger social and historical context', but the sharp focus on art history leaves vast amounts of Renaissance dream literature unexplored. Furthermore, while monographs by Lynch, Clark, and the edited collection Reading the Early Modern Dream attempt to tackle the dream in early modern societies, these books are unable to offer a defined investigation into the popular culture of dreams in Renaissance Italy. Holland (1999) provides a 'roadmap' of dreams in Europe, but again lacks the detail necessary to fully understand dreams in the Renaissance. While these works remain influential in the intellectual origins of dreams in early modern Europe, these studies have neglected themes of popular reception in early modern Italy. This study will focus on the period between 1450 and 1550, analysing the socio-cultural reception of dreams by examining dream manuals and handbooks, literary prose, poetry, diaries, and letters. Many dream manuals and handbooks also either entirely ignored the dreams of women or presented a derogative and cynical view of the presence of women in dreams. Digging deeper into the role of women in dreams and trying to uncover the dreams of women is an exciting opportunity. Continuity and narratives of change will also be considered, recognising that the reception of dreams in early modern Italy was in part born from a long-standing tradition of dreams stemming from antiquity. In summary, my aim with this PhD is to elucidate an area in Italian history which has largely remained confined to narrow intellectual studies or to interpretations of visual culture. Much work on dreams has had little impact on the wider historiography, so by bringing my interpretive framework of dreams to a wider inspection of society, I can expand and revise existing historiography."

“梦是少数几个将所有文化联系在一起的共同经验之一，在流行文化的生产中发挥着重要作用。然而，令人惊讶的是，很少有关于梦及其在文艺复兴时期意大利流行文化中的接受的全面研究。不仅仅是梦的文学本身值得分析，它对流行文化的影响可以通过对印刷文化的仔细检查与人类共同的经验和日常实践联系起来。此外，跨文化办法至关重要。面对阿拉伯语和伊斯兰教对文艺复兴时期意大利梦想文学的影响不断消失，我想研究传播和接受的过程。这种对文艺复兴时期梦文化的创新性研究将有助于丰富意大利文艺复兴时期关于愿景、灵感和天才的史学。该项目将解决一系列确定的问题。首先，受欢迎的观众如何解释他们的梦想，这是否塑造了他们如何驾驭日常生活？其次，天主教会内部关于梦的矛盾观点如何塑造了人们对梦的解释？此外，女性如何解释她们的梦？最后，阿拉伯文本在多大程度上影响了人们对梦的解释，观众在多大程度上意识到了这一点？对当代和历史编纂学的抹去过程以及阿拉伯语的影响如何从大众意识中消除缺乏精确的研究。然而，Saif（2015），Oberhelman（2016）和Knysh（2012）在很大程度上开创了先例，展示了我希望分析的来源与伊斯兰思想的重叠。我的目标是促进现有的辩论文艺复兴时期的意大利和阿拉伯文学之间的跨文化交流。在关于梦的史学文献中，鲁沃尔特处于最前沿。Ruvoldt将梦理论的起源追溯到视觉意象的创造和生产。鲁沃特希望将梦与“更大的社会和历史背景”联系起来，但对艺术史的强烈关注使大量文艺复兴时期的梦文学未被探索。此外，尽管林奇、克拉克的专著以及编辑的文集《阅读早期现代梦》试图解决早期现代社会的梦，但这些书无法对文艺复兴时期意大利的流行梦文化进行明确的调查。Holland（1999）提供了一个欧洲梦的“路线图”，但同样缺乏充分理解文艺复兴时期梦所必需的细节。虽然这些作品在现代早期欧洲梦的知识起源方面仍然具有影响力，但这些研究忽略了现代早期意大利流行接受的主题。这项研究将集中在1450年至1550年期间，通过检查梦手册和手册，文学散文，诗歌，日记和信件来分析社会文化对梦的接受。许多梦的手册和指南也完全忽略了妇女的梦，或者对妇女在梦中的存在提出了贬损和愤世嫉俗的观点。深入挖掘女性在梦中的角色，并试图揭开女性的梦想是一个令人兴奋的机会。连续性和变化的叙述也将被考虑，承认在现代早期意大利的梦的接收部分是从一个长期的传统，源于古代的梦想诞生。总而言之，我的博士学位的目的是阐明意大利历史上的一个领域，这个领域在很大程度上仍然局限于狭隘的知识研究或对视觉文化的解释。许多关于梦的著作对更广泛的历史编纂几乎没有影响，因此，通过将我对梦的解释框架带到更广泛的社会考察中，我可以扩展和修改现有的历史编纂。"