New critical edition of Abbot Wilhelm of Hirsau's vita

Abbot Wilhelm of Hirsau's vita经常被中世纪历史学家用来研究著名的Hirsau修道院的历史以及世纪和12世纪的修道历史。虽然这个文本往往被认为是重要的，有没有彻底检查这个来源作为一个整体。由于这一空白，关于文本的日期、作者和意图的核心问题仍然没有答案或模糊不清。这是加剧的事实，学者们被迫与一个关键的版本，出版于1856年，只包含了今天已知的十三个手稿中的四个。这样的版本与今天的科学标准不一致。因此，本项目的目标是创建一个现代的批判版本的威汉修道院院长的生活，以取代旧的。由于我们有追索权的三倍数量的手稿比已知在1856年，我们可以建立一个更可靠的文本。由于手稿数量的增加，我们也可以对手稿的传播或它们之间的依赖关系进行陈述。除此之外，该项目还检查了手稿的宗教背景。此外，为了避免笼统的判断，《维塔》将根据修道领域的新研究进行语境化。通过新的知识和范式的转变，我们看待修道院社区的方式和对其他Hirsau来源的新评估，我们可以对Vita有一个新的理解。同时，将有一个检查的语言依赖性和文本编辑的基础上，这方面的工作。总而言之，这是一个中心目标，使文本科学地可用，并创造一个最新的理解维塔。

Abbot Wilhelm of Hirsau's vita has been frequently used by scholarsof medieval history studying the history of the famous monastery ofHirsau as well as the history of monasticism in the eleventh andtwelfth century. Although this text has often been considered asimportant, there are no thorough examination of this source as awhole. Because of this gap, central questions concerning dating,authorship and intention of the text have remained unanswered orvague. This is aggravated by the fact that scholars are forced to workwith a critical edition which was published in 1856 and contains onlyfour of the thirteen manuscripts known today. Such an edition is notconsistent with today's scientific standards. Therefore, it is the goal ofthis project to create a modern critical edition of the Vita of AbbotWilhelm of Hirsau in order to replace the old one. As we haverecourse to three times the number of manuscripts than were knownin 1856, we can establish a much more reliable text. Because of theincreased amount of manuscripts, we can also make statementsabout the transmission of the manuscripts or the dependenciesbetween them. In addition to this, the project examines thecodicological contexts of the manuscripts. Also, the Vita will becontextualized according to new researches in the field ofmonasticism in order to avoid blanket judgements. Through newknowledge and paradigm shifts in the way we look at monasticcommunities and new assessments of other Hirsau sources, we canachieve a new understanding of the Vita in general. Concurrently,there will be an examination of linguistical dependencies and textualediting based on this context. Altogether, it is a central goal to makethe text scientifically usable and to create an up to date understandingof the Vita.