Exploring Humanist Networks of Knowledge and Reading in Queens' College Old Library,

在皇后学院旧图书馆探索人文知识和阅读网络，

• 批准号: 2633205
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 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: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2633205
• 关键词: Exploring; Humanist; Networks; Knowledge; Reading

This project, which is funded by the AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral TrainingPartnership, will explore networks of humanist learning at Queens' College Old Library,Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Oxford. I will aim to illuminate the wider,continental network of printer-publishers that furnished the sixteenth-century Old Library andQueens' Fellows with their books. The College's most significant Tudor English book collector wasThomas Smith (1513-1577), whose failed attempts to colonise Ireland can be linked to his "activereading" of classical texts. This term was coined by Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton (1990),whose work is now continued by the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) at UCL. Theirmethodology, which involves the close study of humanist reading and annotations in books, willbe used as part of a wider "archaeological" methodology suggested by Clare Sargent (2001)specifically with Queens' Old Library in mind. Treating books as artefacts within the "site" of theLibrary will require close study of their physical characteristics, including bindings - the booksbeing formerly chained to the lecterns - along with inscriptions and annotations. The study of thebooks will be carried out in conjunction with a recently completed catalogue of the Library, twosixteenth-century book lists from the Library and the Queens' Donors' Roll. I will show whichbooks were collected and purchased for the sixteenth-century Library, from the "stationers" ofCambridge' as well as from abroad, and how the Library's collections developed within thebroader context of continental humanism and its trade in books.Research questions posed by this project will include: Why and how did Thomas Smith use andannotate his books? Can we use signs of ownership in Queens' books of the sixteenth centurymore generally to construct and explore intellectual networks spreading from Cambridge acrossEurope? How can we use both printed books and manuscript archives to reconstruct the practicaland intellectual life of a sixteenth-century corporate library? How can we apply the study of aspecific corporate library and its dynamics over a given period to pose and answer the widerhistoriographical questions about early English humanism?Queens' Old Library remains an understudied resource; the majority of the books' annotationsand inscriptions are yet to be translated. Broader elements of Thomas Smith's life and studiesremain understudied, such as his interest in numismatics: Andrew Burnett, Richard Simpson andDeborah Thorpe (2017) have revealed a "virtually unknown" and apparently unpublished work bySmith on Roman coinage, which indicates the wider scholarly activities of the "Cambridge Circle"beyond its book collecting. Smith's activities in Ireland will form a useful comparison to the betterknowncareer of Sir Philip Sidney, whose father Henry was governor of Ireland. Smith's use ofclassical texts will further illustrate humanist reading practices, already described by Jardine andGrafton in the readings of Livy undertaken by Sidney and his secretary Gabriel Harvey, anothermember of the Cambridge circle. Indeed, Smith developed his own reading group for Livy's textsat Hill Hall in Essex, presumably also undertaken with Ireland in mind. Smith's bequest of someeighty books to Queens' Library, arguably one of the most important sixteenth-century humanistgatherings extant in England, provides an understudied and highly interconnected resource forthe study of the broader networks of humanist learning in England and throughout the continent. Iwill aim to answer the questions above by placing the book collection of a specific corporatelibrary within a much wider intellectual context: the study of, and trade in, humanist texts from thecontinent with a view to their practical application in Tudor English learning and politics.

该项目由AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge博士生培训伙伴关系资助，将与牛津大学合作，探索剑桥皇后学院老图书馆的人文学习网络。我将致力于阐明更广泛的大陆印刷出版商网络，这些出版商为16世纪的旧图书馆和皇后区研究员提供了他们的书籍。学院最重要的都铎英语书籍收藏家是托马斯·史密斯(1513-1577)，他殖民爱尔兰的失败尝试可以与他对经典文本的“积极阅读”联系在一起。这个词是由Lisa Jardine和Anthony Grafton(1990)首创的，她的工作现在由伦敦大学学院的生活和信件编辑中心(CELL)继续进行。他们的方法论，包括仔细研究人文阅读和书籍中的注释，将被用作克莱尔·萨金特(2001)特别考虑到皇后区老图书馆而提出的更广泛的“考古”方法论的一部分。将书籍视为图书馆“遗址”内的人工制品，需要仔细研究它们的物理特征，包括装订--书籍以前是用链条锁在讲台上的--以及铭文和注释。对这些书籍的研究将与最近完成的图书馆目录、图书馆和女王捐赠者名册中的两本16世纪书籍清单一起进行。我将展示哪些书是为16世纪的图书馆收集和购买的，从剑桥的“文具商”以及从国外购买的，以及图书馆的藏书是如何在大陆人文主义及其图书贸易的更广泛背景下发展的。这个项目提出的研究问题将包括：托马斯·史密斯为什么以及如何使用和注释他的书籍？我们能不能更广泛地使用16世纪皇后区书籍中的所有权符号来构建和探索从剑桥传播到整个欧洲的智力网络？我们怎样才能同时使用印刷书籍和手稿档案来重建16世纪企业图书馆的实际生活和智力生活？我们如何应用对特定企业图书馆及其在给定时期的动态的研究，来提出和回答关于早期英国人文主义的更广泛的历史学问题？皇后区的旧图书馆仍然是一个未被充分研究的资源；大部分书籍的注释和铭文还有待翻译。托马斯·史密斯生活和研究的更广泛内容仍未被研究，例如他对钱币学的兴趣：安德鲁·伯内特、理查德·辛普森和黛博拉·索普(2017)揭示了史密斯关于罗马钱币的一部“几乎不为人知”且显然未出版的著作，这表明“剑桥圈”在藏书之外还有更广泛的学术活动。史密斯在爱尔兰的活动将与菲利普·西德尼爵士更知名的职业生涯进行有益的比较，菲利普·西德尼爵士的父亲亨利是爱尔兰总督。史密斯对经典文本的使用将进一步说明人文主义阅读实践，渣甸园和格拉夫顿在西德尼和他的秘书加布里埃尔·哈维(剑桥圈子的另一名成员)的《利维读本》中已经描述了这一点。事实上，史密斯为利维在埃塞克斯郡的希尔霍尔所写的课文建立了自己的阅读小组，大概也是考虑到了爱尔兰。史密斯向皇后图书馆赠送了大约80本书，可以说是英国现存的最重要的16世纪人文主义聚会之一，为研究英格兰和整个欧洲大陆更广泛的人文主义学习网络提供了一个研究不足且高度相互联系的资源。我将致力于回答上述问题，将一个具体的企业图书馆的藏书放在一个更广泛的知识背景下：研究和交易来自该图书馆的人文主义文本，以期将它们实际应用于都铎王朝的英语学习和政治。