Reform as Text Strategy. Studies on the Literary Oeuvre of Johannes Meyer O.P.

本研究项目的目标是全面探索多米尼加观察派和编年史家约翰内斯·迈耶（1422/23-1485）的德语和拉丁语著作。所选择的研究方法是基于文本类型和功能、叙事学和话语史的方面。五个历史上传播的文本组，代表和组成几乎完整的修道院著作的约翰内斯·迈耶，将在一个专著的框架内进行检查。这项研究的目的是不仅从文化史和多米尼加秩序历史的角度对这一重要作品进行分类，而且最值得注意的是，鉴于它在中世纪晚期虔诚神学（或Frömmigkeitstheologie，这个词是由Berndt Hamm引入的）的背景下的地位，以及它对15世纪德国文学的原始贡献。因此，在很大程度上被忽视的文本语料库在15世纪宗教文学的学术讨论中得到了应有的关注，对改革和改革关系的理解有了额外的激励和强调。从作者的立场来看，他的作品处于他那个时代话语的中心和文学模式的交叉点（多米尼加秩序和改革；历史/虔诚神学；史学；圣徒传记；神秘主义的接受；作者身份；重新文本化；百科全书文学），迈耶斯的文本进一步打开了范例分析和描述这些多样化的、偶尔相互依存的话语领域和实践的可能性。这项研究将补充两个中等长度的文本（Papst和Kaiserchronik Predigerordens）的版本，学术文学分析明确提到，但迄今为止还没有印刷版。该版本不仅将推进迈耶尔德语作品的文本批判探索，而且还将成为《改革汇编》新批判版的试点项目，这将在本应用程序范围之外的后续项目中进行。

The goal of this research project is a comprehensive exploration of the German and Latin writings of the Dominican Observant and chronicler Johannes Meyer (1422/23-1485). The chosen approach of study is based on aspects of text typology and function, narratology and of the history of discourse. Five historically transmitted groups of texts, which represent and comprise nearly the complete monastic writings of Johannes Meyer, shall be examined within the framework of a monograph. The research aims to classify this significant oeuvre not only from the perspective of cultural history and of the history of the Dominican order, but most notably in view of its position in the context of the theology of piety (or Frömmigkeitstheologie, as the term was introduced by Berndt Hamm) of the late Middle Ages as well as with respect to its original contribution to the German literature of the 15th century. Hence the largely neglected text corpus is given the deserved attention of a scholarly discussion on religious literature of the 15th century, with additional incentive and emphasis to the understanding of the relationship of Reform and Reformation. From the standpoint of an authors oeuvre at the junction of central and especially literary modes of discourse of his time (Dominican Order and Reform; History/Theology of Piety; Historiography; Hagiography; Reception of Mysticism; Authorship; Retextualization; Encyclopedic Literature), Meyers texts furthermore open the possibility to exemplarily analyse and describe these diverse and occasionally interdependent discursive fields and practices. This study will be supplemented with an edition of two texts of moderate length (Papst- and Kaiserchronik Predigerordens), to which the scholarly literary analysis explicitly refers, but which to date have not been available in a printed edition. The edition will not only advance the text-critical exploration of Meyers German oeuvre, but will also be a pilot project for a new critical edition of the Buch der Reformacio Predigerordens, which is to be pursued in a subsequent project outside of the scope of this application.