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The influence of vernacular visionary texts of continental female mystics on fifteenth-century church reform in England

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K00415
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
Research InstitutionMeiji University (2023)
Shizuoka University (2019-2022)

Principal Investigator

Kukita Naoe  明治大学, 研究・知財戦略機構(和泉), 研究推進員(客員研究員) (00271693)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywordsハッケボーンのメヒティルド / ヘルフタ修道院 / サイオン修道院 / Liber specialis gratiae / Boke of Gostely Grace / Oxford, MS Bodley 220 / Mechthild of Hackeborn / シエナのカタリナ / Orcherd of Syon / Margery Kempe / ハッケボーンのメヒティルドメヒティルド / 西洋中世文学 / 神秘主義思想 / スウェーデンの聖ビルギッタ / シエナの聖カタリナ
Outline of Research at the Start

一千年に及ぶ西洋中世はキリスト教ヨーロッパの成立と展開、キリスト教的価値観の浸透に特徴づけられ、その文化的・宗教的連続性は近代を経て現代にいたる。特に、大陸を中心に発展した神秘主義思想は西洋中世の霊性において重要な位置を占める。本研究では、15世紀の教会改革において、大陸の女性神秘家のラテン語著作が俗語翻訳を通じて再生産され、写本で伝播し、多様な読者層に受容されたプロセスと中世英文学への影響を、歴史、キリスト教神学、ジェンダー研究等の観点を含めて研究し、宗教改革前夜のイングランドの翻訳文学の特徴を描き出し、文学研究の新たな可能性を開拓する。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Boke of Gostely Grace, is a Middle English translation of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn who was a Benedictine nun at the convent of Helfta (now in Germany). The Boke of Gostely Grace emerged following Archbishop Arundel’s Constitutiones of 1409, the legislation issued to counter the ideological political struggles that Lollardy had precipitated. The Boke reflects the politico-religious tension of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
This new edition and the Companion to ‘The Boke of Gostely Grace add momentum to the current interdisciplinary and theoretical debate surrounding Latin texts disseminated in the continent (including those of Birgitta of Sweden and Catherine of Siena) and their translations into the vernaculars, including a number of issues regarding women’s literary culture in England.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では、Liber specialis gratiaeの中英語訳を含む写本、Oxford, MS Bodley 220 の校訂本、The Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation, ed. by Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa et al. (2022)を刊行し、国内外の中世英文学研究に新たな一次資料を提供し、さらに姉妹編 A Companion to the Boke of Gostely Graceを編集し、大陸の女性神秘家の著作の国際流通と影響について先端的研究を公開し、グローバルな学術の発展に貢献した。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (11 results) Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 2 results) Book (10 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Exeter/Swansea University/University of Bristol(英国)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Lausanne(スイス)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Bergen(ノルウェー)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Oxford University/Swansea University/University of Surrey(英国)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Lausanne(スイス)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Swansea University/Oxford University/University of Surrey(英国)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Lausanne(スイス)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Swansea University/Oxford University/University of Surrey(英国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Lausanne(スイス)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Swansea University/Oxford University/University of Surrey(英国)

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Lausanne(スイス)

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] ‘Mechthild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe: An Intertextual Conversation’2021

    • Author(s)
      Liz Herbert McAvoy and Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
    • Journal Title

      Spicilegium

      Volume: 4 Pages: 1-18

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 「教皇庁の混迷を越えて―大陸(出身)の女性神秘家が導くイングランドの教会改革―」2019

    • Author(s)
      久木田直江
    • Journal Title

      西洋中世研究

      Volume: 11 Pages: 63-77

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Compiling Conversations: Women, Textuality and Orality in England in the Later Middle Ages2023

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa (with Liz Herbert McAvoy)
    • Organizer
      Medieval Mystical Tradition in England
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] ‘Nature, Topography and Spiritual Health: Holy Women’s Writing at Helfta and Siena’2020

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
    • Organizer
      Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, 2020: Gender, Science and the ‘Natural World’ (Swansea University)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Book] Women, Words and Devotional Literature in the Later Middle Ages: Giving Voice to Silence, Essays in Honour of Catherine Innes-Parker2023

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Cate Gunn and Liz Herbert McAvoy
    • Total Pages
      320
    • Publisher
      D. S. Brewer
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Cecily Neville’s Devotional Library: Networks of Readers and Models of Female Piety’, in Women, Words and Devotional Literature in the Later Middle Ages: Giving Voice to Silence, Gunn, McAvoy and Kukita Yoshikawa2023

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
    • Total Pages
      320
    • Publisher
      D.S. Brewer
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] ‘Embracing the Body and the Soul: Women in the Literary Culture of Medieval Medicine’, in Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century, ed. Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt2023

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
    • Total Pages
      487
    • Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] ‘“Fluvius autem de Corde Dei egredibatur”: Medicalised Discourse and Holy Women’s Writing at Helfta and Siena’, in Writing Holiness across Boundaries: Gender, Genre, and the Study of Sanctity, ed. Jessica Barr and Barbara Zimbalist2023

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
    • Total Pages
      281
    • Publisher
      Brepols
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] The Boke of Gostely Grace and The Orcherd of Syon: Revelations of “approuyd wymmen” and their Readership in Fifteenth-century England’, in Medieval Translations and their Readers, Medieval Translator, 10, ed. Pavlina Rychterova and Jan Odstrcilik2023

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
    • Total Pages
      350
    • Publisher
      Brepols
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] ‘Women’s Writing in the Japanese Heian Period: A Medieval Dialogue between the East and West’, in Women’s Literary Culture and the Canon in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally,2023

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
    • Total Pages
      356
    • Publisher
      D.S. Brewer
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation, A Critical Edition from Oxford, MS Bodley 2202022

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Anne Mouron with the assistance of Mark Atherton
    • Total Pages
      649
    • Publisher
      Liverpool University Press
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 「『女性の医学』―西洋中世の身体とジェンダーを読み解く」岩波講座 世界歴史 9『ヨーロッパと西アジアの変容 11~15世紀』(大黒俊二・林佳世子編)所収2022

    • Author(s)
      久木田直江
    • Total Pages
      289
    • Publisher
      岩波書店
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] ‘The intertextual dialogue and conversational theology of Mechthild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe’, inEncountering The Book of Margery Kempe, ed. Laura Kalas and Lura Varnam2021

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa, Liz Herbert McAvoy
    • Total Pages
      328
    • Publisher
      Manchester University Press
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] ‘The Liber specialis gratiae in a Devotional Anthology: London, British Library, MS Harley 494’, in ‘This tretice, by me compiled’: Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England, ed. Marleen Cre, et al.2020

    • Author(s)
      Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa (久木田直江), Vincent Gillespie, Ralph Hanna, Ian Johnson, Annie Sutherland, Nicole Rice, Michael Sargent, Laura S Miles, Denis Renevey, Anne Mouron, Mami Kanno, A Lazakani, Nicholas Watson, Marleen Cre, Sarah McMillan, Diana Denissen
    • Total Pages
      466
    • Publisher
      Brepols
    • ISBN
      9782503574776
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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