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

“忏悔回忆”：中世纪晚期忏悔文学中的记忆研究

• 批准号: 2260996
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kent
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2260996
• 关键词: Remembraunce; Confession; Study; Memory; Late

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.

本论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，并研究了文化和文学对记住悔改的社会宗教命令的反应。由于第四次拉特兰大公会议的法令规定每年一次的忏悔是强制性的，并强调田园教学的必要性，该公会引发了大量中世纪晚期忏悔文学的繁荣，并重塑了其对平信徒教育的目的（Boyle 1985） ，第 31 页）。通过阐明忏悔文本中采用的教学技术、对忏悔记忆的描述，以及读者如何与这些文本互动的法学证据，本论文将展示中世纪的记忆和忏悔理论如何在像理事会这样的重大文化发展中相互作用。通过对中世纪晚期的原始资料进行前所未有的仔细分析，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被忽视但至关重要的方面的理解。