John Donne's Sermons Preached at the Inns of Court: A Critical Edition (The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, volume 4)

这个项目将产生一个由约翰多恩（1572年至1631年）在林肯的酒店在他作为社会的传教士就业的早期布道的关键版本。它将提供经过仔细编辑的原文拼写，并提供完整的文本和解释工具。该卷是约翰·多恩布道牛津版的第四卷（总编辑彼得·麦卡洛博士），计划为读者提供多恩布道的第一个完全注释的批判版。虽然在当时是一项重大成就，但目前的学术版本，约翰多恩的布道，由乔治波特和伊夫林辛普森编辑（1953-62）按现代学术的标准是不足的。波特和辛普森只进行了有限的整理，提供了最少的注释，缺乏历史理解导致了相当数量的布道的日期错误和不正确的地点分配。在解决这些缺陷的新版本将是一个具有里程碑意义的出版物在早期现代研究。该卷将整理所有可用的证人，并提供精心编辑的文本，其中包括那些文本最接近道恩所提供的（而不是死后出版的文本）。每一个讲道将提出一个完整的文本装置，评估任何变量的意义。布道将与介绍性的头注和注释阐明意义，确定来源，并追查文学和历史典故。这些注释将使讲道容易接近全方位的读者，包括学者，本科生，和一般读者。多恩的终身和亲密关系的会众在林肯的酒店（他曾在社会研究作为一个学生，并亲自连接到社会的许多友谊）使这些说教独特的语料库，他的说教。通过把它们放在一起（在波特和辛普森的按时间顺序组织的版本中，它们被穿插在不同讲坛上的布道），并用学术介绍来吸引人们对林肯客栈讲坛的特殊性质的注意，这本书将第一次使读者能够在他们被传递的机构和社会背景下欣赏这些布道。

This project will produce a critical edition of the sermons preached by John Donne (1572-1631) at Lincoln's Inn during the early years of his employment as the Society's preacher. It will provide carefully edited texts in original spelling, with full textual and interpretive apparatus. The volume is Vol. IV of the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (general editor Dr Peter McCullough), which plans to offer readers the first fully annotated critical edition of Donne's sermons. Although a significant achievement in its time, the current scholarly edition, The Sermons of John Donne, ed. by George Potter and Evelyn Simpson (1953-62) is by the standards of modern scholarship deficient. Potter and Simpson undertook only limited collation, provided minimal annotations, and a lack of historical understanding led to the misdating and incorrect assignment of place of preaching for a considerable number of sermons. In addressing these deficiencies the new edition will be a landmark publication in early modern studies. The volume will collate all available witnesses and provide carefully edited texts, privileging those texts which are closest to the sermon as delivered by Donne (as opposed to posthumously published texts). Each sermon will be presented with a full textual apparatus, evaluating the significance of any variants. The sermons will be framed with an introductory headnote and a commentary explicating meaning, identifying sources, and tracing literary and historical allusions. These annotations will render the sermons accessible to a full range of readers, including scholars, undergraduates, and the general reader. Donne's life-long and intimate relationship with the congregation at Lincoln's Inn (he had studied in the Society as a student and was personally connected to the Society by numerous friendships) render these sermons unique in the corpus of his preaching. By bringing them together (in Potter and Simpson's chronologically organised edition they were interspersed with sermons preached in quite different pulpits) and framing them with a scholarly introduction drawing attention to the specific character of the Lincoln's Inn pulpit, the volume will, for the first time, enable a reader to appreciate these sermons in the institutional and social contexts in which they were delivered.