The Narrative Dissemination of Religious Knowledge: Publication and Commentary of Spiritual Lyrical and Prose Texts from the 13th to the 16th century

从13世纪到16世纪，大量以前被忽视的、在某些情况下不为人所知的短篇叙事文本，无论是世俗的还是宗教的，今天都保存在羊皮纸和纸质手稿中。在科隆大学和图宾根大学进行的一个为期八年的编辑项目成功完成后，关于中世纪德国世俗故事的诗句(vgl.http://www.versnovellistik.uni-koeln.de/8149.html)，dfg)--已获得资金，以制作经常在同一集体手稿中传播的简短精神文本的最新版本。第二个项目也计划持续八年，将在科隆和图宾根开展，题为“宗教知识的叙事性传播：新版13世纪至16世纪的精神诗歌和散文文本的评论”。在此，将首次向专家和非专家提供不同文学体裁和风格的179个精神文本。每一本书都叙述地传达宗教知识，在许多情况下也是论述的，但从未明确；它们在手稿集中的反复汇编和安排使整个中世纪的接受者能够讨论和理解与基督教宗教信仰有关的错综复杂的问题。这些文本在这个重要的新版本中的出版，将为德国中世纪和早期现代过去的一组重要的“流行”文学作品提供轮廓--这是一大堆以前没有被正确认识或研究的材料。在前现代传播的条件下，正是这种文学帮助创造了这样一种局面：“[…]改革者能够建立在一个非信徒社区的基础上，这些社区为宗教问题上的根本争端做好了充分的准备，并[能够]独立思考“(威廉姆斯-克拉普)。该项目将制作纸质版、电子书和数字开放获取版。这本书和网络版都将包含批评文本和英文翻译。印刷版还将包含一系列备选文本以及文学史评论，而在线版将包含与许多手稿和早期印刷品的数字图像、整套变种以及关于考据、撰写情况和起源以及解释事项等方面的多层评注的链接。

A significant number of previously neglected and in some cases unknown short narrative texts, both secular and religious, survive today in parchment and paper manuscripts from the 13th to the 16th centuries. Following the successful completion of an eight-year editorial project, undertaken at the Universities of Cologne and Tübingen, concerning medieval German secular tales in verse (vgl. http://www.versnovellistik.uni-koeln.de/8149.html), DFG-funding has been secured to produce an up-to-date edition of the short spiritual texts that are so often transmitted in the same collective manuscripts. This second project, which also has a planned duration of eight years and will be undertaken in Cologne and Tübingen, is entitled: “The Narrative Dissemination of Religious Knowledge: New edition with commentary of spiritual verse and prose texts from the 13th to the 16th century”. A total of 179 spiritual texts of different literary genres and styles will hereby be made available to specialists and non-specialists alike for the first time. Each one conveys religious knowledge narratively, and in many cases also discursively, but never unambiguously; and their repeated compilation and arrangement in manuscript collections enabled recipients throughout the Middle Ages to discuss and understand intricate problems pertaining to Christian religious belief. The publication of these texts in this major new edition will give contour to an important group of ‘popular’ literary works from Germany’s medieval and early modern past – a large body of material that has not been properly recognized or researched before. Under the conditions of pre-modern communication it was precisely this literature that helped to create a situation in which “[…] reformers were able to build on a lay community who were sufficiently prepared for fundamental disputes over religious issues and [were] capable of independent thought” (Williams-Krapp). The project will produce a print edition as well as an e-book and a digital, Open Access edition. Both the book and the online edition will contain the critical texts and an English translation. The print edition will also contain a selection of alternative versions of the texts as well as a literary-historical commentary, while the online edition will contain implemented links to the digital images of numerous manuscripts and early prints, the complete set of variants as well as multi-layered commentaries on aspects of textual criticism, circumstances of composition and origins and matters of interpretation.