Samuel Daniel's The Collection of the History of England and the Transformations of Seventeenth-Century Historical Culture

塞缪尔·丹尼尔的《英格兰史集和十七世纪历史文化的变迁》

• 批准号: 2277401
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 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-2277401
• 关键词: Samuel; Daniel; Collection; History; England

My doctoral thesis will trace the seventeenth-century transformation of the writing of history through a detailed study of the landmark work of English history, The Collection of the History of England (1618), written by the leading poet of the day, Samuel Daniel (1562/3 - 1619). The early seventeenth century saw the emergence of multiple new kinds of history writing in English. The rise of antiquarianism led to the institution of an empirical, topographical method which looked to primary evidence, both textual and material, to scrutinise previously established narratives of the English past, propagated by medieval chroniclers. The writing of narrative history furthermore was dramatically transformed by the emergence of new forms of politic history, drawing on earlier continental models to write works which foregrounded the human (as opposed to providential) causation of political structures and events. Far from being of isolated interest to historians, poets took active interest in history, producing their own works of narrative and topographical history in poetic form. Beginning in the late 16th century as a poet, Daniel wrote in the tradition of such poets as Edmund Spenser, who claimed to be a 'poet historical'. Having partly completed his poetic account of the Wars of the Roses, Daniel turned to prose history, devoting his final years to the Collection, which told the history of Britain from the Roman period down to the death of Edward III. Daniel's work encompasses a strikingly wide variety of the traditions of seventeenth-century history writing, synthesizing politic, antiquarian, and medieval practices. The Collection, furthermore, constituted a departure for him, as he ventured to enter into the specialized domain of history itself, becoming not so much the new 'poet historical' as the first 'historical poet'. Situating Daniel's Collection within these various historical contexts, and encompassing the interdisciplinary fields of historiography, politics, the history of the book, and the history of reading, my research aims to show how the work synthesizes multiple traditions that together provide a unique insight into the purposes of history writing in the seventeenth century.

我的博士论文将通过详细研究英国历史的里程碑式作品《英格兰历史集》（1618）来追溯17世纪历史写作的转变。这部作品由当时的主要诗人塞缪尔·丹尼尔（1562/3 - 1619）所著。世纪早期出现了多种新的英语历史写作。古物主义的兴起导致了一种经验主义的地形学方法的建立，这种方法着眼于文本和材料的原始证据，以审查中世纪编年史家传播的先前建立的英国过去的叙述。此外，新形式的政治史的出现极大地改变了叙事史的写作，借鉴早期的大陆模式来撰写突出政治结构和事件的人为（而不是天意）因果关系的作品。诗人们对历史的兴趣远不是孤立的，他们对历史产生了积极的兴趣，以诗歌的形式创作了自己的叙事和地形历史作品。从16世纪后期开始，丹尼尔作为一名诗人，以埃德蒙·斯宾塞（Edmund Spenser）等诗人的传统写作，他自称是“历史诗人”。丹尼尔在完成了对玫瑰战争的部分诗歌叙述后，转向散文史，将最后几年的时间投入到《文集》中，讲述了从罗马时期到爱德华三世去世的英国历史。丹尼尔的作品包含了17世纪历史写作的各种传统，综合了政治，古物和中世纪的做法。此外，《文集》对他来说是一个出发点，因为他冒险进入了历史本身的专门领域，与其说他是新的“历史诗人”，不如说他是第一位“历史诗人”。将丹尼尔的作品集置于不同的历史背景中，并涵盖历史学、政治学、书的历史和阅读的历史等跨学科领域，我的研究旨在展示这部作品如何综合多种传统，共同提供对十七世纪历史写作目的的独特见解。