Legendary Narration in the Middle Ages. Forms, functions, and contexts of German hagiography

拟议中的网络是为了满足目前缺乏任何全面的中世纪文学的研究所提出的迫切需要。包括大量的，以及variedcorpus的著作，体裁必须回避任何直接的尝试exhaustive定义，因此，主要目标是概括的内在多样性的传奇叙事下，特别考虑后者的话语的灵活性和敏感性不断实现。该网络将冒险描绘和探索材料投射的相应概念的整个范围，而不是应用任何本体论的神圣性概念。每一个文本的证人是要讨论系统以及historicallin两种方式，其中性别，身体和身份的具体概念，以构成各自的圣人，以及如何在其中建立神圣性作为动员aparticular一套叙事技巧。在这方面，基督信仰的概念至关重要。它决不是被设想为完全属于内文本领域，作为模仿的激情，但也可能意味着互文现象（例如，在模仿autorum的情况下），或通过表演手段实现（如通过祈祷的言语行为的参与观众）。因此，该项目将特别关注宗教功能化的不同形式，这些宗教功能化是非宗教性的。分析后者，制度和媒介的背景是要考虑，大意是，我们的讨论的不同方式，神圣性是媒介化和叙事必须是不可分割的交织在一起的调查的历史条件的文学生产和接受。这种方法有望呈现细致入微的洞察力的灵活性，传奇文学在面对历史上不同的有效性条件。该网络将从三个层面进行分析，（projectedsaint/subject matter/motif/s），正式标准（语言、叙事模式、体裁/格式）和语境问题（传统，制度，宗教功能化）连同它们特定的相互关系，以便推断它们各自在圣徒建设中的作用。这样，现代文学中不变与变化的相互作用可以用一个不同的话语和叙事传统不断重组的过程来描述。网络研究的实质性成果是一部关于中世纪传奇叙事的专著，其中特别强调了德国的圣徒传，它将考察作为宗教传播关键媒介的传奇体裁的历史和系统学，从而为中世纪的文学史和宗教史做出重要贡献。

The proposed network is designed to meet a desideratum of researchposed by the current lack of any comprehensive account of medievallegendary literature. Comprising a voluminous as well as variedcorpus of writings, the genre must elude any immediate attempts atexhaustive definition, wherefore the main objective is to recapitulatethe inherent diversity of legendary narration under particularconsideration of the latters discursive flexibility and susceptibility toconstant actualisation. Instead of applying any ontological concept ofsanctity, the network will venture to delineate and explore the wholerange of corresponding notions projected by the material. Eachtextual witness is to be discussed systematically as well as historicallyin terms of both the way in which specific concepts of gender, body,and identity are applied in order to constitute the respective saint, andthe way in which sanctity is established qua mobilisation of aparticular set of narrative techniques. In this context, the concept ofimitatio Christi is of key importance. It is by no means to be conceivedof as belonging exclusively to the intratextual sphere, as imitation ofthe passion, but may also either imply intertextual phenomena (e.g. inthe case of imitatio auctorum), or be realised by performative means(such as the involvement of the audience through the speech act ofprayer). Accordingly, the project is going to lend particular attention tothe different forms of religious functionalisation that legendarynarrations are subject to. Analysing the latter, institutional and medialcontexts are to be considered, to the effect that our discussion of thedifferent ways in which sanctity is medialised and narrativised must beindissolubly interlaced with inquiries into the historical conditions ofliterary production and reception. This approach promises to rendernuanced insights into the flexibility of legendary literature in the faceof historically varying validity conditions. Engaging three levels ofanalysis, the network will examine contents-related aspects (projectedsaint/subject matter/motif/s), formal criteria (language, narrativepattern, genre/format), and matters of context (tradition, institution,religious functionalisation) together with their specific interrelations inorder to extrapolate their respective roles in the construction of saints.This way, the interplay of invariable and variable aspects in legendaryliterature can be described in terms of a process of constantrecombination of diverse discursive and narrative traditions. Thematerial result of the projected networks research, a co-authoredmonograph on legendary narration in the Middle Ages with specialemphasis on German hagiography, will examine history andsystematics of the genre of legend as a key medium of religiouscommunication, thus providing an important contribution to bothliterary history and the history of religion of the Middle Ages.