'What then do I love, when I love my God?': Divine personae and the human subject in the devotional culture of late fourteenth-century Yorkshire.

这项研究首次全面探讨了上帝在14世纪晚期主体性经历中的重要性，通过对约克郡文本的本地化研究得到了证明。自我和上帝的不可分割性在14世纪的作品中被清晰地表达出来，这使得人们对神性的文学表现有了充分的理解，这对理解中世纪后期的自我，自主和内在性的经历至关重要。这些都是主体性研究的关键组成部分。正如Aers（1992）所强调的，对中世纪主体性的探究必须优先考虑当代基督教。然而，最近没有研究充分探讨这一关键领域（Spearing, 2002; Lawton, 2017）。约克郡的虔诚文本表明了蓬勃发展的知识文化，但在学术上仍未得到充分的重视。我对约克郡的密切关注解决了这一差距。我将仔细审查几份研究不足的手稿，包括MS Arundel 507和MS Harley 1022，它们被Hanna（2003）确定为特别需要注意的。我的工作解决了两个关键问题：上帝的文学表现如何反映自己的概念？约克郡的文本如何呈现、表现和暗示与上帝的关系？本研究共分五章：1、研究内容：在当代奥古斯丁认识论的光下检查MS阿伦德尔507 （c.1350-c.1400）的奉献论文。这些论述例证了这里所断言的自我与上帝的不可分割性。论《北方受难记》（c14 -15）和阿尔昆对沃里克的盖伊布道（c14）。这些文本构建、预测和优先考虑主观反应的关键方法将被检查，将现有的关于基督情感文学表现的工作（伍尔夫，1962年；辛格尔顿，2007年；休梅克，2011年）与主体性研究对话。分析MS Harley 1022 （c.1390-c.1425）中自我和上帝的定位。主要的语言特征，如语音、隐喻、转喻和指示，将从认知诗歌的角度进行研究，使用认知心理学的工具来强调读者对上帝的情感体验。4 .《俗人弥撒书》（第14章）和《北方布道周期》（第14章）中对与上帝的理想化集体关系的探索，评估劳顿（2017）关于公共表演对中世纪主体性经验的中心地位的主张。在理查德·罗尔（c14 -15）的歌词中，抒情诗在表现自我与上帝之间的关系中所扮演的角色。项目的前12个月将包括全面的文献回顾，对主要文本的密切研究和档案访问。第一章和第三章将首先解决，因为它们的前提必须针对手稿的证据进行测试，需要做出特别的咨询安排。接下来的章节将花费四到五个月的时间来写，这取决于必要的二次阅读的数量。随着学术机构越来越关注性、性别、种族和社会特权的不同体验，我对各种可能的主体性的开放态度说明了中世纪主义在当代的重要性。试图理解现代生活经验必须在更广泛的知识和本体论背景下考虑主体性。对中世纪文本的审视促进了对人类主体性的新视角，对自我体验的开放，从根本上质疑围绕个性和自主性的主导叙事。

This research provides the first full-length enquiry into the importance of God in late fourteenth-century experiences of subjectivity, evidenced through a localised study of texts from Yorkshire. The inextricability of self and God articulated in fourteenth-century works makes a full understanding of literary representations of divinity central to comprehending later medieval experiences of selfhood, autonomy and inwardness. These are key constituents of subjectivity studies. As Aers (1992) emphasises, enquiry into medieval subjectivity must prioritise contemporary Christianity. Yet no recent work fully explores this key area (Spearing, 2002; Lawton, 2017).The devotional texts of Yorkshire are indicative of a thriving intellectual culture, yet remain underappreciated in scholarship. My close regional focus on Yorkshire addresses this gap. I will scrutinise several under-researched manuscripts, including MS Arundel 507 and MS Harley 1022, which are identified by Hanna (2003) as particularly needful of attention.My work addresses two key questions: How do literary representations of God reflect conceptions of theself? How do Yorkshire texts present, perform and imply relationships with God? The study will consist offive chapters:1. Examination of the devotional treatises of MS Arundel 507 (c.1350-c.1400) in light of contemporaryAugustinian epistemology. These treatises exemplify the inseparability of self and God asserted here.2. Discussion of The Northern Passion (C14th-15th) and Alquin's Sermon to Guy of Warwick (C14th). Thekey methods whereby these texts construct, anticipate and prioritise subjective responses will beexamined, bringing existing work on affective literary representations of Christ (Woolf, 1962; Singleton,2007; Shoemaker, 2011) into dialogue with subjectivity studies.3. Analysis of the positioning of self and God in MS Harley 1022 (c.1390-c.1425). Key linguistic featuressuch as voice, metaphor, metonymy and deixis in will be examined from a cognitive-poetic perspective,using the tools of cognitive psychology to emphasise affective readerly experiences of God.4. An exploration of idealised collective relationships with God in The Lay Folks' Mass Book (C14th) andThe Northern Homily Cycle (C14th), evaluating Lawton's (2017) assertion of the centrality of publicperformance to medieval experiences of subjectivity.5. Examination of the role of lyric voice in performing relationships between self and God in the the lyricsof Richard Rolle (C14th-15th).The first twelve months of the project will involve a thorough literature review, close work on primary texts, and archive visits. Chapters one and three will be addressed first, as their premises must be tested against evidence from manuscripts for which special consultation arrangements need to be made. The subsequent chapters will take either four or five months to write, depending on the volume of necessarysecondary reading. As academic institutions pay increasing attention to diverse experiences of sexuality, gender, race and societal privilege, my open-minded approach to a full range of possible subjectivities illustrates the contemporary importance of medievalism. Attempts to understand modern lived experiences must consider subjectivity within a broader intellectual and ontological context. Scrutiny of medieval texts facilitates a fresh perspective on human subjectivity, open to experiences of selfhood which radically question dominant narratives surrounding individuality and autonomy.