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

我的博士论文将通过详细研究英国历史上具有里程碑意义的作品《英格兰历史文集》（1618）来追溯17世纪历史写作的转变，该书由当时的主要诗人塞缪尔·丹尼尔（Samuel Daniel, 1562/3 - 1619）撰写。17世纪早期出现了多种用英语书写历史的新形式。古物研究的兴起导致了一种经验性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，以仔细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，叙事性历史的写作由于政治史新形式的出现而发生了戏剧性的变化，借鉴了早期大陆模式来撰写作品，这些作品突出了政治结构和事件的人类（而不是天意）因果关系。对历史学家来说，诗人并不是孤立的兴趣，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史作品。从16世纪晚期开始，丹尼尔作为一名诗人，按照埃德蒙·斯宾塞等诗人的传统写作，斯宾塞声称自己是“历史诗人”。在完成了对玫瑰战争的部分诗歌描述后，丹尼尔转向散文历史，将他的最后几年投入到这部讲述从罗马时期到爱德华三世去世的英国历史的文集中。丹尼尔的作品涵盖了17世纪历史写作的各种传统，综合了政治、古物和中世纪的实践。此外，《选集》对他来说是一个开端，因为他冒险进入历史本身的专门领域，与其说他是一个新的“历史诗人”，不如说是第一个“历史诗人”。在这些不同的历史背景下，并包括史学，政治学，书的历史和阅读的历史的跨学科领域，我的研究旨在展示如何工作综合多种传统，共同提供一个独特的见解到17世纪的历史写作的目的。

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.