Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200

授予AHRC早期职业奖学金将使我能够完成一本题为《1000-1200年中世纪意大利南部的圣洁和朝圣》的专著，这本书与剑桥大学出版社签订了合同，将于2012年9月提交。该奖项将允许我开始对某些圣徒传记和卡特勒来源(我将已经获得)进行最后阶段的分析，以便产生专著的其余章节。这本专著代表了对中世纪意大利南部圣洁和朝圣的第一次全面研究(以任何语言)，并将有助于更深入地了解该地区在经历深刻转变时的变化，以及中世纪对圣洁和朝圣的广泛发展。由于该地区在庇护希腊基督教、拉丁基督教、穆斯林和犹太社区方面是独一无二的，这项研究是一个难得的机会，可以尝试对这片政治和文化支离破碎的土地进行全面分析，作为中世纪世界主要宗教团体的地中海边境，并分析神圣性如何在这样一个关键的文化十字路口发挥作用。它还提供了机会，将临界区的神圣性与整个欧洲的其他形式进行比较，从而进一步解决意大利南部在中世纪世界中被认为处于边缘的真实程度。该地区处于中世纪，在某种程度上至今仍是如此，通常被视为与欧洲事件的更深层次潮流相比处于边缘地位。纳入该项目的研究涉及对各种但互补的主要材料(包括已出版和未出版的)的获取、翻译和分析。这项研究的主要来源是中世纪的圣徒传记和奇迹收藏品。中世纪的礼仪作品也被使用，如圣历、殉道书、欢庆的卷轴和讲演。这些文件揭示了圣人崇拜是如何被教会以官方形式尊崇的，以及它们是如何被呈现给更广泛的门外汉社区的。这项研究还纳入了广泛的材料，从卡特勒尔(揭示圣人遗赠和教堂对特定圣人的奉献的信息)、当代中世纪编年史(揭示神圣性发挥作用的社会和政治背景)和视觉材料(建筑和装饰)。在其关键结论中，这项工作强调，意大利南部应该更多地放在许多核心中世纪发展的中心，而不是边缘，这一发现对我们对中世纪欧洲以及现代意大利的理解具有更广泛的影响。该地区可以被称为“神圣的十字路口”，它在日益增长的神圣国际主义中发挥了关键作用。意大利南部独特的环境为各种形式的神圣创造了一个大熔炉，具有不同的文化传统，并受到同样不同的个人和社区的崇敬。意大利南部及其神圣的典范是模仿(与整个欧洲其他形式的神圣)、融合和跨文化交流的倾向的启发性例子。因此，它还得出结论，通过分析意大利南部的神圣性和朝圣之旅，可以绘制出该地区内部边界因日益增长的拉丁化和同质化而受到的侵蚀。随之而来的是，另一个重要的发现是，探索南部的神圣性揭示了南意大利社会的重大转变(西西里的重新基督化，该地区拉丁和希腊社区之间明显分裂的性质，教皇的日益增长的影响力，城市化，宗教和修道院运动的兴起)。这项研究将对对中世纪地中海、神圣性和朝圣、中世纪基督教和宗教间关系感兴趣的学者和学生特别有价值。

The award of an AHRC Early Career Fellowship will enable me to complete a monograph entitled Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200, which is contracted with Cambridge University Press and to be submitted in September 2012. The award will allow me to embark upon a final phase of analysis of certain hagiographical and cartulary sources (which I will already have acquired) in order to produce the remaining chapters of the monograph. This monograph represents the first comprehensive study (in any language) of sanctity and pilgrimage in medieval southern Italy, and will contribute to a deeper understanding both of the region as it moved through profound transitions, and also of the medieval wide development of sanctity and pilgrimage. As the region was unique in sheltering Greek Christian, Latin Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities, this study represents a rare chance to attempt a holistic analysis of a politically and culturally fragmented land which acted as a Mediterranean frontier for the major religious groups of the medieval world, and to analyse how sanctity functioned at such a key cultural crossroads. It also offers the opportunity to compare sanctity in a liminal zone with other forms throughout Europe thus addressing further the true extent of Southern Italy's perceived marginality in the medieval world. The region, in the Middle Ages and to some extent still today, has typically been viewed as marginal to the deeper currents of European events. The research incorporated within this project has involved the acquisition, translation and analysis of a diverse, but complementary, body of primary material (both published and unpublished). The major sources for this study are medieval hagiographical texts, in the form of saints' biographies and miracle collections. Medieval liturgical works have also been utilised, such as sanctoral calendars, martyrologies, exultet rolls and lectionaries. These reveal how saintly cults were venerated in an official format by the Church, and how they were presented to the wider lay community. This study also incorporates a vast range of material from cartularies (revealing information on bequests to saints and church dedications to particular saints), contemporary medieval chronicles (revealing the social and political contexts in which sanctity functioned) and visual material (architecture and decoration).Among its key conclusions the work emphasises that Southern Italy should be placed more to the centre rather than the periphery of many core medieval developments, a finding which carries wider consequences for our understanding of medieval Europe as well as modern-day Italy. The region could be termed a 'holy crossroads', one which played a pivotal role in the growing internationalism of sanctity. The unique environment in southern Italy created a melting pot for a variety of forms of sanctity with diverse cultural traditions, and venerated by equally diverse individuals and communities. Southern Italy and its models of sanctity represent an illuminating example of the propensity for imitation (with other forms of sanctity across Europe), integration and cross-cultural exchange. It also concludes, therefore, that an analysis of south Italian sanctity and pilgrimage can map the erosion of the region's internal frontiers through growing Latinisation and homogenisation. As a corollary to this, another important finding concludes that an exploration of sanctity in the South uncovers significant transitions in South Italian society (the re-Christianisation of Sicily, the nature of the apparent rupture between the region's Latin and Greek communities, the increasing influence of the Papacy, urbanisation, the rise of eremetical and monastic movements).This study will be of particular value to academics and students interested in the medieval Mediterranean, sanctity and pilgrimage, medieval Christianity, and interfaith relationships.