MOWLIT: The Medieval March of Wales, c. 1282-1550: Mapping Literary Geography in a British Border Region

该项目旨在创建威尔士中世纪三月的第一个整体文化历史，威尔士和英格兰之间的边境地区，在1282年至1550年期间由威尔士，英语和法语的不同人口占据。主要目的是：（1）揭示和分析中世纪三月期间产生和传播的文学文本和手稿;（2）创建一系列原始的三月贵族在该时期不同日期点的数字地图;（3）通过人物画（主要贵族住宅和修道院的可视化）将文本和地图联系起来，以及文本/手稿在地图上的分布，显示它们的制作地点和阅读/拥有它们的人;（4）评估三月的文化和区域身份及其与更强大的邻国英格兰的关系。MOWLIT将是第一个从边境两侧对三月的地理文化政治进行系统研究的项目，揭示了中世纪英国这个多语言地区的文化和语言网络的新信息。这个项目将首次记录和定义一个独特的文化的三月，标志着多语言，冲突，新兴的身份，以及读者和作家的网络。它还将创建有史以来第一套Marcher领主地图，使用历史记录来确定以前从未被作者确定的领主边界。一个比较维度将通过一系列研讨会与学者专门研究中世纪欧洲的其他边境社区，导致区域和边境身份的新的理解，这是英国和欧洲现代联邦国家的历史基础。由此产生的资源将为历史学家，语言学家和文学评论家提供前所未有的威尔士游行的文化地理，为比较研究和分析开辟新的途径。

The project aims to create the first holistic cultural history of the medieval March of Wales, the borderlands between Wales and England, occupied by a diverse population of Welsh, English and French speakers in the period between 1282 and 1550. The main aims are (1) to uncover and analyse the literary texts and manuscripts produced and circulated in the medieval March; (2) to create an original series of digital maps of the Marcher lordships at various date points during the period; (3) to link the texts and the maps by means of a prosopography, a visualisation of the major gentry houses and abbeys, and a distribution of the texts/manuscripts across the maps showing where they were produced and who read/owned them; (4) to assess the cultural and regional identities of the March and its relations with its more powerful neighbour, England. MOWLIT will be the first systematic study of the geo-cultural politics of the March from both sides of the border, revealing new information about cultural and linguistic networks in this multilingual region of medieval Britain. This project will for the first time document and define a distinctive culture of the March, marked by multilingualism, conflict, emergent identities, and networks of readers and writers. It will also create the first-ever set of maps of the Marcher lordships, using historical records to determine the boundaries of the lordships which have never previously been authoritatively determined. A comparative dimension will be introduced through a series of workshops with scholars specialising in other border communities of medieval Europe, leading to new understandings of regional and border identities which underpin the histories of modern federated states in Britain and Europe. The resulting resources will provide historians, linguists, and literary critics with unprecedented access to the cultural geography of the Welsh Marches, opening up new avenues for comparative research and analysis.