Affective Scribal Activity in Medieval Devotional Writing, 1300-1500

在我的研究中，我将调查中世纪的抄写者是如何在情感上与他们正在复制的宗教经文接触的；例如，增加语言来强化文本，将‘Curseyd caitiff’改为‘fouseyd caitiff’，仅举一个例子。我将研究经文手稿中经文活动的证据，包括经文语言、边缘注释、汇编、目录和其他证据的变化，以便在经文活动的记录中找到情感反应的形式，以及这对经文流传下来的影响：即经文本身是如何被经文的情感反应所改变的。我会考虑可用的物质证据，包括情绪化抄写反应的类型和模式。我还将考虑这些证据如何发展我们对阅读实践的理解。我的研究将在手稿研究和现代情感理论的交汇点上发挥作用。它将考虑对经文活动的研究，如这些手稿所证明的那样，如何告诉我们更多关于阅读的情感--我们如何识别或同情人物，文本的语言如何引发情感反应，或者文本的情感如何与对政治或宗教教义的更广泛理解相一致或相反--以及我们如何采取一种批判性的方法，将这些情感因素纳入其本身的重要地位。我的研究将为情感解释问题提供一个理论框架，因为它不仅将文本作为改变我们的对象，而且将研究被改变的东西，作为抄写者互动的结果经历字面上的、身体上的改变的东西，以及抄写者如何作为情感的载体对文本做出反应和贡献。

In my research, I will investigate how medieval scribes engaged emotionally with the religious texts they were copying; for instance, adding language to intensify the text, changing 'Curseyd caitiffs' to 'Foule curseyd caitiffs', to give just one example. I will study evidence of scribal activity in the manuscripts of devotional texts - including changes in the language of the text, marginal annotation, compilation, tables of contents, and other evidence - in order to locate forms of affective response in the record of scribal activity, and the effect this has on the text as it is passed down through the ages: that is, how the text itself is literally changed by the scribe's emotional response. I will consider the material evidence available, including the types and patterns of affective scribal response. I will also consider how this evidence may develop our understanding of the practices of reading. My research will function at the intersection between the study of manuscripts and modern affect theory. It will consider how study of scribal activity, as evidenced in these manuscripts, can tell us more about the emotions of reading - how we identify or empathise with characters, how emotional responses are elicited by the language of the text, or how the emotions of a text work with or against broader understandings of politics or religious doctrine - and how we can adopt a critical approach that incorporates these emotional factors as significant in their own right. My research will provide a theoretical reframing of the question of affective interpretation because it will study the text not only as an object that changes us but something that is changed, something which undergoes literal, physical change as a result of scribal interaction, and how scribes respond to and contribute towards the text as a vector of emotions.