Legal Records, Reading Practices, and The Meaning of Paper in Late Medieval English Literature (for the DTP CDA project "Writing Technologies in Trans

中世纪晚期英语文学中的法律记录、阅读实践和论文意义（适用于 DTP CDA 项目“翻译中的写作技术”）

• 批准号: 2740943
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2740943
• 关键词: Legal; Records; Reading; Practices; Meaning

In book history, the Middle Ages are associated with the use of parchment, made from animal hides, in bookmaking,while paper, made from plant matter, is primarily considered the province of later periods. But, in England, expanding ourdefinition of "literature" to include the wealth of administrative records from the period reveals that a surprisingly largenumber of paper manuscripts, the sorts of bureaucratic texts many scribes of Middle English poetry copied for their dayjobs, circulated in the late medieval period. By volume, these files, as Andrew Prescott writes, "are the characteristicscribal productions of medieval England," a fact often ignored by literary scholars, which suggests that the literary andreaderly practices prompted by paper itself deserve more attention. Thus, my project will investigate the little-studiedNational Archives KB145, an archive containing legal records brought to the King's Bench in London from regionalcourts. Focusing on its fourteenth- and fifteenth-century records alongside paper manuscripts of Middle English poetry inCambridge's collections, I hope to elucidate the meaning of paper in late medieval England. What expectations,associations, and physical habits did medieval readers bring to literature on paper, a material used for everything fromepic poetry to wiping up spills? I aim to shed light on what paper, as a technology, meant to readers who graduallyadopted it, an inversion of our world which gradually leaves it behind.

在图书史上，中世纪与使用羊皮纸有关，羊皮纸由动物皮革制成，在书籍制作中，而纸，由植物物质制成，主要被认为是后期的省份。但是，在英国，如果我们将“文学”的定义扩大到包括这一时期的大量行政记录，就会发现中世纪晚期流传着数量惊人的纸质手稿，即许多中世纪英语诗歌抄写员为了日常工作而抄写的官僚文本。安德鲁·普雷斯科特（Andrew Prescott）写道，这些文件的数量“是中世纪英格兰的典型抄写作品”，这一事实经常被文学学者忽视，这表明纸张本身引发的文学和阅读实践值得更多关注。因此，我的项目将调查很少研究的国家档案馆KB 145，一个包含从地区法院带到伦敦王座的法律的记录的档案馆。集中在其14和15世纪的记录，以及剑桥的收集中世纪英语诗歌的纸质手稿，我希望阐明纸在中世纪晚期英格兰的意义。中世纪的读者对纸上文学有什么期望、联想和身体习惯？纸上文学是一种从诗歌到擦拭溢出物的材料。我的目标是阐明纸作为一种技术，对逐渐采用它的读者意味着什么，这是我们世界的一种颠倒，逐渐将它抛在身后。