Interpreting Medieval Liturgy, c. 500 - c. 1500 AD: Text and Performance

人们普遍认为，在中世纪，仪式化的行为在宗教、社会和政治生活中发挥了重要作用。礼仪仪式是中世纪记录中一个重要但未被充分研究的部分，很大程度上是因为对它们的研究已经变得高度专业化和划分，因为不同的学术学科已经发展出自己的方法来研究这种形式的证据。礼仪仪式给现代学者带来了特别的问题，因为它们唯一幸存的证据通常是书面文本，这些文本对实际执行的指导非常不完善。该网络将侧重于偶尔服务的证据（而不是那些为弥撒和办公室），即个人仪式，如洗礼，忏悔和葬礼，以及年度游行，包括棕枝主日和朝圣日；这些仪式是所有中世纪基督徒，世俗和神职人员，教会生活的核心。这些服务组织了个人的生活过程，但也将他们与更广泛的社区联系在一起，并有助于明确社区身份。该网络将汇集来自不同学科的国际学者——历史、音乐学、神学、英国文学、戏剧研究、艺术和建筑史——以解决紧张局势，打破目前存在于这些中世纪礼仪仪式跨学科研究中的障碍。来自美国、加拿大、丹麦、法国、荷兰、以色列和英国的学者将建立一个研究方法交流的框架。该网络将侧重于研究仪式本身的文本问题，它们产生的背景，以及文本与执行仪式的环境之间的关系。它将把正式文件与中世纪晚期教堂圣泰洛（St Teilo’s）中悔罪者和解仪式的重现结合起来，该教堂最近在加的夫威尔士国家博物馆圣费根（St Fagans）重新建立和翻新。为了保证网络的连续性，并最大限度地传播其研究成果，我们将制作一本编辑书籍和一个互动网站。对编辑的书的贡献将讨论不同的方法论问题，并旨在帮助学者新的礼仪材料。互动网站将包括每次会议的公开摘要，一个公开的讨论论坛，以及一个仪式重演的电影。此外，还会有其他网站的链接，包括St Fagans的网站，以确保将拍摄的重演传播给学校教师和儿童，对他们来说，中世纪宗教是国家历史课程的一部分，以及对中世纪教堂内部发生的事情感兴趣的普通公众。

The medieval world is widely recognised as one in which ritualized actions played an important role in religious, social and political life. Liturgical rites constitute an important yet understudied part of the medieval record, largely because the study of them has become highly specialised and compartmentalised as different academic disciplines have developed their own approaches to this form of evidence. Liturgical rites pose particular problems for modern scholars because often the only surviving evidence for them is written texts which are very imperfect guides to what was actually performed. This network will focus on the evidence for occasional services (rather than those for the Mass and the Office), that is personal rites such as for baptism, penance, and burial, as well as annual processions including Palm Sunday and the Rogation Days; these were rituals which lay at the heart of church life for all medieval Christians, lay and clerical. These services structured the course of individuals' lives, but also bound them to the wider community, and helped articulate community identities. The network will bring together international scholars from a variety of different disciplines -- history, musicology, theology, English literature, theatre studies, art and architectural history -- in order to resolve the tensions and to break down the barriers which currently exist to the interdisciplinary study of these medieval liturgical rites. Scholars drawn from the USA, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Israel and the UK will create a framework for an exchange of research methods. The network will focus on the problems of studying the texts of the rites themselves, the contexts in which they were produced, and the relationship between texts and the environment in which they were performed. It will combine formal papers with a re-enactment of a late medieval rite for the reconciliation of penitents in a late medieval church, St Teilo's, recently re-erected and re-furbished at St Fagans, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. In order to guarantee the continuity of the network and to maximise the dissemination of its research findings, we will produce an edited book and an interactive website. The contributions to the edited book will discuss different methodological problems and are intended to help scholars new to liturgical material. The interactive website will include a published summary of each meeting, a publicly-viewable discussion forum, and a film of the liturgical re-enactment. There will also be links to other websites, including St Fagans', in order to ensure the dissemination of the filmed re-enactment to school teachers and children, for whom medieval religion is part of the national curriculum in history, and to the general public interested in what went on inside medieval churches.