Finding friendship in early English literature

该项目旨在通过重新定义中世纪早期文学中这种联系的生活和想象方式，为友谊的悠久历史提供广泛的新知识。该项目希望通过对早期英语文本的案例研究，为我们理解这种基本的人际关系做出创新的贡献。该项目的预期成果包括通过写作对中世纪早期社会的友谊进行前所未有的全面研究，并以此为人文学科的发展提供一个模型。该项目为一系列学科提供了显著的好处，并且通过参与当代社会的关键问题，还包括学术以外的重要好处。

This project aims to provide extensive new knowledge about the long story of friendship by reconceptualizing the ways in which this bond was lived and imagined in early medieval literature. The project expects to make an innovative contribution to our understanding of this fundamental human relationship through a case study of early English texts. Expected outcomes of this project include an unprecedented comprehensive study of friendship in an early medieval society through its writing, and with this develop a model for the engaged humanities. The project offers significant benefit for a range of academic disciplines, and also includes important benefit beyond the academy through engagement with a critical issue in contemporary society.