'Remembraunce for Confession': A Study of Memory in Late Medieval Penitential Literature

本文分析了中世纪晚期欧洲，特别是英国的记忆研究与忏悔实践之间的联系，并调查了对记住忏悔的社会宗教必要性的文化和文学反应。由于第四次拉特兰大公会议的法令规定每年忏悔是强制性的，并强调需要牧灵教学，该会议促成了中世纪晚期忏悔文学的巨大和多样化的发展，并重塑了其对平信徒教育的目的（Boyle 1985, p.31）。通过阐明在忏悔文本中部署的教学技术，他们对忏悔记忆的描绘，以及读者如何与这些文本互动的法典证据，本论文将展示中世纪的记忆和忏悔理论如何在重要的文化发展（如理事会）中相互作用。通过对中世纪晚期原始资料的前所未有的密切分析，本文将认识到中世纪记忆与忏悔之间丰富的主题和文本联系，丰富我们对中世纪记忆中一个被忽视但至关重要的方面的理解。

This thesis analyses the connection between studies of memory and practices of penance in late medieval Europe, and specifically England, and investigates cultural and literary responses to the socio-religious imperative to remember to repent. As the edicts of the Fourth Lateran Council made annual confession obligatory and stressed the need for pastoral teaching, the council occasioned the blossoming of the great and varied volume of late medieval penitential literature, and reshaped its purpose towards the education of the laity (Boyle 1985, p.31). By illuminating the pedagogical techniques deployed within penitential texts, their portrayals of penitential remembering, and codicological evidence of how readers interacted with such texts, this thesis will demonstrate how medieval theories of memory and penance interacted in light of significant cultural developments like the council. Through an unprecedented close analysis of late medieval primary sources, this thesis will recognise the abundant thematic and textual connections between medieval memory and penance, enriching our understanding of a neglected yet crucial aspect of medieval memory.