Affiliations of Texts of Ancrene Wisse: What They Tell Us about Its Origins

Ancrene Wisse 文本的隶属关系：它们告诉我们其起源

基本信息

批准号：
11610509
负责人：
WADA Yoko
金额：
$ 1.73万
依托单位：
Kansai University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1999
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1999 至 2001
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-11610509/
关键词：
Ancrene Wisse manuscripts Middle English French Latin Dominicans friars monasteries Ancrene Wisse 原作系統図校訂

项目摘要

Ancrene Wisse ('a guide for nuns'), a work originally written in the thirteenth century, survives in English, French, and Latin versions and is attested in seventeen manuscript witnesses. In 1976 E. J. Dobson made a stemma of textual relationships which laid out an overview of the whole tradition. However, as he admitted, it was based on trial collations of selected passages. It is necessary to return to traditional text-historical methods, building on his insights into the relationships where there were determined with the aid of strictly comparable passages. Results of my research clearly show that his stemma has many problems; I have suggested some revision which Dobson's stemma needs.A detailed examination of the affiliations of the texts has revealed that there was a substantial multiplication of copies within the first half-century after the original was composed. It is very likely that the author was Dominican although Dobson maintained the work's strong connection with the Augustinians.I have conducted research mainly in the manuscript room of British Library and Cambridge University Library. At the rare-books room of Cambridge University Library I was able to have access to books and periodicals very useful to my work; I obtained many microfilms and photocopies of materials on monasteries, friars, and nuns in the late Middle Ages.I had a chance to invite two excellent scholars of medieval history and literature from abroad to hold a medieval seminar on Old English paleography at Kansai University. I also attended many conferences in Britain and the States to have discussions and exchange ideas with people about my research and related topics. A Book of Ancrene Wisse, which was edited by Yoko Wada and published in 2003, is a collection of essays newly written for the book by the editor and scholars from four countries.

Ancrene Wisse（“修女指南”）最初写于 13 世纪，有英语、法语和拉丁语版本，并有 17 个手稿见证人证实。 1976 年，E. J. Dobson 提出了文本关系的词干，概述了整个传统。然而，正如他承认的那样，这是基于对选定段落的尝试校对。有必要回到传统的文本历史方法，建立在他对借助严格可比段落确定的关系的洞察之上。我的研究结果清楚地表明他的词干有很多问题；我建议对多布森的词干进行一些修改。对文本隶属关系的详细检查表明，在原作完成后的前半个世纪内，副本数量大幅增加。尽管多布森认为这部作品与奥古斯丁派有着密切的联系，但作者很可能是多米尼加人。我主要在大英图书馆和剑桥大学图书馆的手稿室进行了研究。在剑桥大学图书馆的善本室，我能够查阅到对我的工作非常有用的书籍和期刊；我获得了许多有关中世纪后期修道院、修道士、修女的资料的缩微胶卷和影印件。我有机会邀请两位国外优秀的中世纪历史和文学学者在关西大学举办了中世纪古英语古文字学研讨会。我还参加了英国和美国的许多会议，与人们就我的研究和相关主题进行讨论和交流。《A Book of Ancrene Wisse》由和田洋子主编并于2003年出版，是该编辑和来自四个国家的学者为该书新撰写的论文集。