Early Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage

早期现代手稿诗歌：恢复我们的抄写遗产

基本信息

批准号：
AH/G012466/1
负责人：
Steven May
金额：
$ 62.68万
依托单位：
University of Sheffield
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2009 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG012466%2F1
关键词：
Early Modern Manuscript Poetry Recovering

项目摘要

Poetic miscellanies are central to the growing interest in early modern manuscript culture. Yet few of the primary documents are available for study in reliable editions, while a very small percentage of the thousands of poems extant only in manuscript texts have been analyzed and reliably edited. The project will bring manuscript culture to a wider audience - and extend the literary canon - by editing three important verse anthologies from the period and placing them in their full cultural context. The three editions comprise two extensive collections containing works by some of our best-known Renaissance poets (Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS. 44 and British Library, Harleian MS. 7392) and one hitherto unstudied and seemingly forgotten Elizabethan anthology of verse and prose (British Library Additional MS. 82370), previously in private ownership, which was acquired by the British Library in 2007. Compiled in South Yorkshire, this third collection in particular gives a rare and valuable insight into the types of verse available to provincial scribes. It also casts light on literary production and activity beyond London and the south east.The three editions will add substantially to our knowledge of scribal practice and early modern literary activity by tracing when, where, by whom and for whom these texts were produced; how they circulated; and the political and religious, as well as literary concerns, of their compilers.The project will also produce the first critical edition of forty-two Elizabethan verse libels in manuscript. Within the larger genre of early modern verse satire, verse libels are one significant type of poetry confined to manuscript circulation. These poems were far too slanderous to reach print. They are not available in critical texts and are almost wholly unknown to scholars. As a result, a large piece of our understanding about the dissemination and debate of political concerns in sixteenth-century England is currently missing. Many of these poems circulated for decades, appreciated for their literary quality long after the targets of their satire were distant memories. Recovering these poems will add therefore to our appreciation of Elizabethan poetry, as well as the political interests and moral sensitivities of the age. The conference and resulting book of essays will disseminate best practice in archival studies and editing. It will place what we have learned about early modern manuscript culture during the project in the context of on-going research in this field.The project will also train two students in the multiple skills required for manuscript studies, equipping them for scholarly careers in this area, and providing the field with much-needed expertise for further progress in the discipline by the next generation of scholars.

诗意的杂项是对早期现代手稿文化日益兴趣的核心。然而，很少有主要文档可以在可靠的版本中进行研究，而只有在手稿文本中存在的数千首诗中，很少有一部分的诗歌已经进行了分析和可靠的编辑。该项目将通过编辑这段时期的三本重要诗集并将其置于其完整的文化背景下，将手稿文化带入更广泛的受众群体，并扩展文学经典。这三个版本包含了两个广泛的收藏，其中包含一些我们最著名的文艺复兴诗人（维多利亚和艾伯特博物馆，迪斯·迪斯·MS。44和大英图书馆，哈利安·MS。7392），迄今未被研究过的一位，看似被遗忘的伊丽莎白·伊丽莎白·伊丽莎白·伊丽莎白的诗歌和著作（英国图书馆撰写了8233年的私人企业），以前是8233年的私人企业。在南约克郡（South Yorkshire）汇编的第三个系列尤其是对省级文士可用的经文类型的罕见和宝贵的见解。它还阐明了伦敦和东南部以外的文学作品和活动。这三个版本将通过追踪何时，何时，何处，谁，谁，谁，何处，何处，何处，何处，何处，何处，何处，何处，何处，何处，何处，以及现代文学活动来大大增加。他们如何流传；该项目还将制作第一个关键版本的第一个关键版本，其中42章是手稿中的第42篇伊丽莎白诗歌诽谤。在早期现代诗歌讽刺的较大流派中，诽谤是局限于手稿循环的一种重要类型。这些诗太诽谤了，无法打印。它们在批判文本中没有可用，几乎是学者完全未知的。结果，目前缺少我们对16世纪英格兰的政治关切的传播和辩论的大量理解。这些诗中的许多散发了数十年，在讽刺目标的目标是遥远的记忆之后，他们的文学质量很久以来。因此，恢复这些诗将增加我们对伊丽莎白女王诗歌的欣赏，以及当时的政治利益和道德敏感性。会议和由此产生的论文集将传播档案研究和编辑中的最佳实践。在该领域正在进行的研究中，该项目还将在该项目的持续研究中学到我们所学到的关于早期现代手稿文化的知识。该项目还将培训两名学生的手稿研究所需的多种技能，为他们为该领域的学术职业提供精心的学术职业，并为该领域提供了急需的专业知识，以在下一代Scholars培训该学科的进步，以进一步进步。