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A Corpus of Renaissance Correspondence: The Letters of Elizabeth Talbot (c.1527-1608, known as 'Bess of Hardwick')

文艺复兴时期通信集：伊丽莎白·塔尔博特（Elizabeth Talbot，约 1527-1608 年，被称为“哈德威克的贝丝”）的书信

基本信息

批准号：
AH/F017308/1
负责人：
Alison Wiggins
金额：
$ 33.19万
依托单位：
University of Glasgow
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2008 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF017308%2F1
关键词：
Corpus Renaissance Correspondence Letters Elizabeth

项目摘要

The project will break new ground by making accessible online this important, yet virtually unedited, corpus of Renaissance letters. Research utilising the online edition will be captured in a co-authored monograph, conference papers, and podcasts. The project will thus massively increase our understanding of the documents and the correspondents involved, and therefore of Renaissance letters more generally. The letters of the indomitable Elizabethan matriarch and dynast Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c.1527-1608, known as 'Bess of Hardwick'), provide an unparalleled historical resource. Her more than 200 letters (over 70 of which are from Elizabeth Talbot, mainly written in her own hand) include over 60 correspondents and span a period of almost 60 years. No other 16th-century woman left such a large number of letters, with the possible exception of Elizabeth I. The corpus is unrivalled not only in terms of its size, but also for its scope, breadth of social contacts, range of activities related, and variety of epistolary styles employed. There are instructions to servants and orders to builders; expressions of affection between husband and wife, as well as bitter marital disputes; gossip from court; news and intelligence; entreaties to the queen and her councillors; legal petitions and interventions; advice to her children and strategic marriage negotiations. They richly illustrate, in microcosm, the spectrum of 16th-century letter-writing activities and the functions that letters performed. Moreover, they show that Renaissance letter-writing was not an exclusively male or elite activity as many of Elizabeth's correspondents were below the ranks of the nobility and gentry, and a quarter were women.The letters have been mined by Tudor biographers and historians for nuggets of information about political, social, and domestic life, and details relating to the building of Hardwick Hall and Chatsworth House. But they have yet to be fully examined as textual artefacts or for their linguistic information. The starting point for such analysis must be an edition of the letters. There has never been any attempt to edit the complete correspondence and there is no modern edition of any part of the letters. This lack seems staggering, given the widely acknowledged importance of the life and letters of Elizabeth Talbot, as well as the letters' intrinsic appeal.The letters are written in a variety of hands and scripts, of varying quality and levels of difficulty of decipherment, and are scattered throughout different archives in the UK and US. These two factors - handwriting and distribution - means the letters are currently well beyond the reach of most students and scholars of the period. The project will provide online transcripts of the all letters, presented according to modern editorial standards, in searchable, downloadable, and print-friendly versions, accompanied by scholarly notes and commentaries on manuscript features and presentation. Alongside the creation and development of the edition, the letters will be analysed for the way they textualise relationships, draw on created versions of voice and personae, and use visual and material features to communicate meaning. The findings of these analyses will be published as a major study. Together, the edition and study, for the first time, will allow us to hear Elizabeth Talbot speak for herself.The letters will be edited and analysed by the project team in the English Language Department, University of Glasgow. The edition will be hosted by the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London. The texts will be added to the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, University of Helsinki, which will extend the possibilities for future analysis by another set of users - historical sociolinguists and corpus linguists. Six podcasts will provide routes into the collection for a wider audience, beyond the academy.

该项目将开辟新的领域，使在线访问这一重要的，但几乎未经编辑，语料库的文艺复兴时期的信件。利用在线版的研究将被捕获在一个共同撰写的专著，会议论文和播客。因此，该项目将大大增加我们对相关文件和通信员的理解，从而更广泛地了解文艺复兴时期的信件。不屈不挠的伊丽莎白一世女族长和王朝的什鲁斯伯里伯爵夫人塔尔博特（约1527 -1608年，被称为“哈德威克的贝丝”）的信件提供了无与伦比的历史资源。她的200多封信（其中70多封来自伊丽莎白塔尔博特，主要是她自己写的）包括60多位通讯员，跨越了近60年的时间。没有其他16世纪的女性留下如此大量的信件，除了伊丽莎白一世。该语料库是无与伦比的，不仅在其规模方面，而且其范围，社会交往的广度，相关活动的范围，以及所采用的书信体风格的多样性。有对仆人的指示和对建筑商的命令;夫妻之间感情的表达，以及痛苦的婚姻纠纷;来自法庭的八卦;新闻和情报;对女王和她的议员的恳求;法律的请愿和干预;对她的孩子的建议和战略婚姻谈判。它们丰富地展示了16世纪书信写作活动的缩影以及书信的功能。此外，这些信件还表明，文艺复兴时期的书信写作并不完全是男性或精英的活动，因为伊丽莎白的许多通信者都在贵族和绅士之下，其中四分之一是女性。都铎王朝的传记作家和历史学家从这些信件中挖掘出有关政治、社会和家庭生活的信息，以及与哈德威克庄园和查茨沃斯庄园有关的细节。但它们还没有被作为文本人工制品或其语言信息进行充分的研究。这种分析的起点必须是信件的版本。从来没有任何试图编辑完整的信件，也没有现代版的任何部分的信件。考虑到伊丽莎白塔尔博特的生平和信件的重要性以及这些信件内在的吸引力，这一缺失似乎令人震惊。这些信件是用各种笔迹和字体写的，质量和破译难度各不相同，分散在英国和美国的不同档案馆中。这两个因素--笔迹和分发--意味着这些信件目前远远超出了该时期大多数学生和学者的能力范围。该项目将提供所有信件的在线抄本，根据现代编辑标准，以可搜索，可下载和便于印刷的版本呈现，并附有关于手稿特征和呈现方式的学术注释和评论。除了版本的创建和开发，这些信件将被分析为文本化关系的方式，利用声音和人物的创建版本，并使用视觉和材料特征来传达意义。这些分析的结果将作为一项主要研究发表。编辑和研究一起，第一次让我们听到伊丽莎白塔尔博特为自己说话。这些信件将由格拉斯哥大学英语系的项目小组编辑和分析。该版将由伦敦大学玛丽女王的生活和信件编辑中心主办。这些文本将被添加到赫尔辛基大学的早期英语通信语料库中，这将为另一组用户-历史社会语言学家和语料库语言学家-未来的分析提供可能性。六个播客将为学院以外的更广泛的观众提供进入收藏的途径。