Samuel Daniel's The Collection of the History of England and the Transformations of Seventeenth-Century Historical Culture

我的博士论文将通过对当时著名诗人塞缪尔·丹尼尔(Samuel Daniel，1562/3-1619)撰写的具有里程碑意义的英国历史著作《英格兰历史汇编》(The Collection of the England，1618)的详细研究，追溯17世纪历史写作的变革。十七世纪初，出现了多种新的英语历史写作形式。古物主义的兴起导致了一种经验性的地形学方法的建立，这种方法着眼于原始证据，包括文字和材料，以仔细审查中世纪编年史工作者传播的先前建立的关于英国过去的叙述。此外，随着新形式政治史的出现，叙事史的写作也发生了戏剧性的变化，借鉴了早期的大陆模式，写出了突出政治结构和事件的人类(而不是天意)因果关系的作品。诗人们对历史远不是孤立的兴趣，他们对历史产生了积极的兴趣，以诗歌的形式创作了他们自己的叙事和地形史作品。从16世纪末作为一名诗人开始，丹尼尔就沿袭了埃德蒙·斯宾塞等诗人的传统，斯宾塞自称是一位历史诗人。在部分完成了对玫瑰战争的诗意描述后，丹尼尔转向散文史，将他的最后几年献给了《文集》，这本书讲述了从罗马时期到爱德华三世去世的英国历史。丹尼尔的作品涵盖了17世纪历史写作的各种传统，综合了政治、古物和中世纪的实践。此外，《诗集》对他来说是一次启程，因为他冒险进入历史本身的专门领域，与其说成为新的历史诗人，不如说是第一个历史诗人。我的研究将《但以理集》置于这些不同的历史背景中，涵盖了历史学、政治学、这本书的历史和阅读历史等跨学科领域，旨在展示这部作品是如何综合多种传统的，这些传统一起为17世纪的历史写作目的提供了独特的洞察力。

My doctoral thesis will trace the seventeenth-century transformation of the writing of history through a detailed study of the landmark work of English history, The Collection of the History of England (1618), written by the leading poet of the day, Samuel Daniel (1562/3 - 1619). The early seventeenth century saw the emergence of multiple new kinds of history writing in English. The rise of antiquarianism led to the institution of an empirical, topographical method which looked to primary evidence, both textual and material, to scrutinise previously established narratives of the English past, propagated by medieval chroniclers. The writing of narrative history furthermore was dramatically transformed by the emergence of new forms of politic history, drawing on earlier continental models to write works which foregrounded the human (as opposed to providential) causation of political structures and events. Far from being of isolated interest to historians, poets took active interest in history, producing their own works of narrative and topographical history in poetic form. Beginning in the late 16th century as a poet, Daniel wrote in the tradition of such poets as Edmund Spenser, who claimed to be a 'poet historical'. Having partly completed his poetic account of the Wars of the Roses, Daniel turned to prose history, devoting his final years to the Collection, which told the history of Britain from the Roman period down to the death of Edward III. Daniel's work encompasses a strikingly wide variety of the traditions of seventeenth-century history writing, synthesizing politic, antiquarian, and medieval practices. The Collection, furthermore, constituted a departure for him, as he ventured to enter into the specialized domain of history itself, becoming not so much the new 'poet historical' as the first 'historical poet'. Situating Daniel's Collection within these various historical contexts, and encompassing the interdisciplinary fields of historiography, politics, the history of the book, and the history of reading, my research aims to show how the work synthesizes multiple traditions that together provide a unique insight into the purposes of history writing in the seventeenth century.