The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

这个研究项目承担了约翰·多恩（1576-1631）的布道的一个完整的重新评估，并将产生这些布道的新的关键版本，为新一代的读者介绍和解释性说明。多恩是英国文艺复兴时期最著名的作家之一，他的作品经常在学校和大学教授。自1910年代以来，邓恩诗歌的编辑工作一直没有松懈，最近的例子是印第安纳州美国的《集论版》。P（其中四卷已出现的日期）。多恩的受欢迎程度远远超出了学术界，最近为NPG购买多恩的“洛锡安肖像”的运动，约翰·斯塔布斯的一本新的流行传记的出现，以及西蒙·沙马关于多恩诗歌的BBC节目都证明了这一点。然而，诗歌只代表了多恩的一小部分，近年来他的宗教和散文作品一直是最具创新性的研究重点。这导致了显着的进步，无论是邓恩的写作和宗教文化的理解在17世纪的英格兰。然而，这一时期的布道很少有可访问的版本，与诗歌相反，多恩的诗歌遭受了相对的编辑忽视。现存的160篇布道文是由乔治R.波特和伊夫林辛普森之间的1954年和1962年，但没有解释性的注释提供，使卷很难为学生，甚至专家使用。后来只出版了几个选集，而且经常是节略的形式。目前的项目将解决几个相关的问题，包括（1）如何促进现代读者对这些讲道的理解，通过提供介绍性材料和注释，确定参考圣经，典故，其他作品（由多恩和其他人），并与神学，社会和政治辩论的参与;（2）如何密切现代读者可以得到一个布道，因为它最初鼓吹;（3）是否这种形式，或在作者的一生中产生的最新一个应该是我们现在读的文本的基础;（4）如何安排这样的讲道应该是，例如，由他们的交付日期或根据地点，他们被鼓吹。牛津大学出版社已委托彼得·麦卡洛（Peter McCullough）担任总编辑，并由一个国际学者团队参与，将由这一研究项目产生的16卷版本。该项目将主要集中于处理和解决有关布道文本的研究问题，并将资助一名研究助理，其主要任务是比较所有现有的印刷和手稿布道副本，以建立尽可能准确的文本。除了提供将由特约编辑介绍和注释的文本外，这项工作还将为该版本提供一个全面的文本伴侣，这将解释多恩的布道如何到达我们，概述该版本所依据的原则，并为进一步研究和其他早期现代布道版本提供模板。该版本必须持续一个世纪，目前还没有实用的方法来确保网络或CD出版物的长期技术和管理连续性;目前，平行（印刷/电子）出版形式是此类作品的唯一合适形式。因此，该项目将为那些对多恩的著作感兴趣的人（学生，教师，学者和更广泛的公众）提供无与伦比的资源，但它也将对传教，宗教，法律，法院和政治历史的学生非常宝贵。

This research project undertakes a complete reassessment of the sermons of John Donne (1576-1631), and will produce a new critical edition of those sermons, with introductions and explanatory notes for a new generation of readers. Donne is one of the most celebrated authors of the English Renaissance, whose work is regularly taught in schools and universities. Editorial work on Donne's poetry has not slackened since the 1910s, the most recent example being the Variorum Edition from Indiana U. P (four volumes of which have appeared to date). And Donne's popularity reaches well beyond academia, as witnessed recently by the campaign to purchase for the NPG the 'Lothian Portrait' of Donne, the appearance of a new popular biography by John Stubbs, and Simon Schama's BBC programme on Donne's poetry. However, poetry represents only a fraction of Donne, and in recent years his religion and prose works have been the focus of the most innovative research. This has led to significant advances in the understanding of both Donne's writing and of religious culture in seventeenth-century England. Yet sermons from this period are rarely available in accessible editions, and in contrast to the poetry, Donne's have suffered relative editorial neglect. The 160 extant sermons were edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn Simpson between 1954 and 1962, but no explanatory notes were provided, making the volumes difficult for students and even experts to use. Only a few selections have been published subsequently, and frequently in abridged form. The current project will address several linked questions, including (1) how to facilitate a modern reader's understanding of these sermons, by the provision of introductory materials and notes that identify references to the Bible, allusions to other works (by Donne and others), and engagements with theological, social, and political debates; (2) how close modern readers can get to a sermon as it was originally preached; (3) whether this form, or the latest one produced in the author's lifetime should be the basis of the text we read now; and (4) how such sermons should be arranged - by, for example, the date of their delivery or according to the location in which they were preached. OUP has commissioned the 16-volume edition that will result from this research project, under the General Editorship of Peter McCullough and involving an international team of scholars. The project will concentrate chiefly on addressing and resolving research questions concerning the texts of the sermons, and will fund a research assistant whose primary task will be to compare all available copies of the sermons in print and manuscript in order to establish the most accurate texts possible. As well as providing the texts that will be introduced and annotated by the contributing editors, this work will result in a comprehensive Textual Companion to the edition, which will explain the ways in which Donne's sermons have reached us, outline the principles on which the edition is based, and provide a template for further study and editions of other early modern sermons. This edition has to last a century, and there is no practical way yet of ensuring technical and managerial continuity long-term for a web or CD publication; at present, forms of parallel (print/electronic) publication are the only suitable forms for work of this kind. The project will, therefore, provide an unmatched resource for those interested in Donne's writings (students, teachers, scholars, and the wider public), but it will also be invaluable to students of the history of preaching, religion, the law, the court, and politics in the period.