The contextual control of meaning: Saint Christopher in late Anglo-Saxon England

意义的语境控制：盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰晚期的圣克里斯托弗

基本信息

批准号：
320970742
负责人：
Dr. Simon Thomson
金额：
--
依托单位：
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2015-12-31 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/320970742?language=en
关键词：
contextual control meaning Saint Christopher

项目摘要

I intend to explore evidence for the processes of reading and of interpretation in late Anglo-Saxon England, taking as a test-case the different versions of the passion of Saint Christopher available there. The Christopher narrative is ideal for this kind of work: the saint seems to have gathered popularity quickly in the mid- to late-tenth century, with multiple versions of his story extant in English, Irish, and Continental manuscripts in Latin, English, and other vernacular languages. Past research by a range of scholars has started to develop an understanding of the relationships between different witnesses to the Old English text, and my contribution will be to clarify these relationships. Moreover, I intend to go significantly further than this past work. My aim is not just to establish the development of particular textual traditions but to consider reasons for the variation in the representations of a single figure and how these variations map out across time and place in early medieval Europe. In particular, I will seek to identify how interpretations or uses of the legend may have varied through the use of different narrative details, intertextual setting within manuscripts, and scribal presentation. Data gathered about the life and its variants, in Latin and Old English, will be made available for other scholars to use on projects about orthography, hagiography, linguistics, and manuscript production. I will use the data to analyse the narrative and descriptive variations in connection with place and date of origin and with communities and production and use. This research will contribute to a growing body of understanding about contextual and communal uses to which narratives were put, and about how scribes and compilers of manuscripts worked to shape such narratives. It will also contribute to a current growth of interest in saints' lives as the most popular and widespread narrative form in the medieval period.

我打算探索盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰晚期的阅读和解释过程的证据，以那里可用的圣克里斯托弗激情的不同版本作为测试案例。克里斯托弗的叙述非常适合此类作品：这位圣人似乎在十世纪中后期迅速流行起来，他的故事的多个版本以拉丁语、英语和拉丁语、英语和欧陆语手稿保存在英语、爱尔兰语和欧陆语手稿中。其他本土语言。过去一系列学者的研究已经开始加深对古英语文本不同见证人之间关系的理解，而我的贡献将是澄清这些关系。此外，我打算比过去的工作走得更远。我的目的不仅仅是建立特定文本传统的发展，而是考虑单个人物的表征变化的原因，以及这些变化如何在中世纪早期的欧洲跨越时间和地点。特别是，我将试图确定通过使用不同的叙述细节、手稿中的互文设置和抄写演示，对传说的解释或使用可能会发生变化。收集到的关于拉丁语和古英语的生活及其变体的数据将可供其他学者用于有关正字法、圣徒传记、语言学和手稿制作的项目。我将使用这些数据来分析与原产地和日期以及社区、生产和使用有关的叙述和描述性变化。这项研究将有助于加深对叙事的语境和公共用途的理解，以及手稿抄写员和编者如何塑造此类叙事的理解。它还将有助于当前人们对圣徒生活的兴趣增长，作为中世纪时期最流行和最广泛的叙事形式。