A critical edition of John Donne's Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I

该项目将制作诗人兼牧师约翰·多恩（1572-1631）在查理一世（即1625年至1631年）宫廷布道的批判版。多恩在这里做了15次布道，从查理即位前的第一次布道，到最后一次布道，1631年3月，多恩去世前一个月的布道。它将以旧拼写建立准确的布道文本，指示文本变体并评估其重要性。这样做，它将优先考虑那些可以被证明尽可能接近布道的文本，因为它们最初是由多恩发表的。也许最重要的是，它还将为每个讲道提供大量的解释性评论和标题注释，以帮助读者并指导他/她通过文本的教义和政治意义，以及解释关键词和追踪事件或其他作者和文本的典故（包括多恩语料库的其余部分）。该版本是多恩布道的16卷本的一部分，将由牛津大学出版社出版。作为一个整体，该版本的目的是按布道地点而不是纯粹按时间顺序排列布道（尽管在每卷布道将按交付日期排序，这可以建立）。通过强调布道受众的重要性——这是一个深刻影响布道水平、语气、音域和主题的因素——新版将建立在该领域最新重要研究的基础上。通过提供广泛的评论，它将使这些文本更广泛地为当时的学生和学者所了解。在这两方面，它都将取代之前的版本《乔治·波特与伊夫林·辛普森》（1953-62），后者没有任何解释性注释或注释，现已绝版。在他向查理一世的宫廷布道时，多恩正处于他作为传教士的巅峰时期。与此同时，他还要应对新国王、教会改革、对外战争、国内瘟疫、议会动荡和个人疾病带来的挑战。他在这一时期的布道表明，他既是一个直言不讳的批评家，又是一个微妙的顾问；这些话语显示了他广博的学识，以及他根据环境和会众的期望调整信息的能力。这一版本将第一次向学术读者展示它们的全部意义。

This project will produce a critical edition of the sermons preached by the poet and churchman John Donne (1572-1631) at the court of Charles I (i.e. between 1625 and 1631). Donne delivered fifteen sermons to this auditory, from the first sermon preached before Charles after his accession, to Donne's final sermon, 'Deaths Duell', which was preached just over a month before his death in March 1631. It will establish accurate texts of the sermons in old spelling, indicating textual variants and assessing their significance. In so doing, it will prioritise those texts which can be proved to be as close as possible to the sermons as they were originally delivered by Donne. Perhaps most importantly, it will also provide a substantial series of interpretive commentaries on and headnotes to each sermon in order to assist the reader and to guide him/her through the doctrinal and political significance of the texts, as well as glossing key words and tracing allusions to events or to other writers and texts (including the rest of Donne's corpus). The edition is part of a sixteen-volume edition of Donne's sermons, to be published by Oxford University Press. As a whole, the edition's aim is to arrange the sermons by place of preaching rather than purely chronologically (although within each volume sermons will be ordered by date of delivery where this can be established). By emphasising the importance of the audiences to whom sermons were delivered - a factor that profoundly influences the level, tone, register, and topics of a sermon - the edition will build on recent important research in the field. By providing extensive commentaries it will make these texts more widely accessible to students and scholars of the period. In both respects it will supersede the previous edition of George Potter and Evelyn Simpson (1953-62), which included no interpretive notes or glosses and is now out of print. During the time of his sermons to the court of Charles I, Donne was at the height of his powers as a preacher. At the same time, he grappled with the challenges of a new king, innovations in the church, foreign wars, plague at home, parliamentary unrest, and personal illness. His sermons during this period show him to be both an outspoken critic and a subtle counsellor; they display the breadth of his learning and his ability to adjust his message to circumstances and to the expectations of his congregation. This edition will, for the first time, make their full significance visible to a scholarly audience.