Chaucer the Historian: Chaucer's Reception, Reproduction, and Transmission of Humanist Historiographical Style

历史学家乔叟：乔叟对人文主义史学风格的接受、复制和传播

• 批准号: 2407059
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2407059
• 关键词: Chaucer; Historian; Reception; Reproduction; Transmission

Chaucer's well-worn reputation as the Father of English Poetry has eclipsed his revolutionary effect upon English historiography. My doctoral thesis explores the stylistic influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer's historical writing, and bridges the striking gap between two topical scholarly fields; Chaucer and Italy, and Chaucer's sense of history. Style and decorum were the predicates of Renaissance humanism, the eloquent application of the appropriate rhetorical register in accordance with a given mode or genre, which revealed individual talent. Chaucer's acute understanding of these predicates created a new landscape of historical writing in England, which my thesis examines for the first time. I explore the first forays into this new landscape by tracing the influence Chaucer's distinctive historical style had on poet-historians such as John Lydgate and Osbern Bokenham, whose imitation of Chaucer in the fifteenth century established him as England's great historical poet.

乔叟“英国诗歌之父”这一久经世故的名声掩盖了他对英国史学的革命性影响。我的博士论文探讨了意大利人文主义对乔叟历史写作的风格影响，并弥合了两个主题学术领域之间的显著差距；乔叟和意大利，以及乔叟的历史观。风格和礼仪是文艺复兴人文主义的谓语，根据特定的模式或流派雄辩地运用适当的修辞语域，揭示个人才能。乔叟对这些谓词的敏锐理解创造了英国历史写作的新景观，我的论文首次对此进行了研究。我通过追踪乔叟独特的历史风格对约翰·利德盖特（John Lydgate）和奥斯本·博肯汉姆（osbernbokenham）等诗人历史学家的影响，探索了这一新领域的第一次尝试。约翰·利德盖特和奥斯本·博肯汉姆在15世纪模仿乔叟，使他成为英国伟大的历史诗人。