Meditationes Vitae Christi and the Fifteenth-Century Popular Thoughts

• Project/Area Number: 21520298
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Osaka Sangyo University
• Principal Investigator: TAGUCHI Mayumi 大阪産業大学, 人間環境学部, 教授 (30216832)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 英文学 / 思想史 / 文献学 / 認知理論 / 中世 / 15世紀精神史 / 中世キリスト教 / キリストの生涯の黙想 / 認知 / 脳神経科学 / 国際情報交換 / イギリス:フランス:アメリカ:他 / 中世英文学

Research Abstract

This project sought to consider the multifarious influences of the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes Vitae Christi upon late medieval lay piety and the development of popular thoughts, specifically from these two aspects :(1) neuro-biological analyses of the use of certain terms and expressions typically attributable to this kind of devotionalism through Nicholas Love's adaptation of the MVC, Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ ;(2) material analyses of some compilatory manuscripts ; specifically, Pepys Library MS 2125, Magdalene College, Cambridge, which includes a version of Middle English translation of the MVC(this study is to develop in my new editorial project for the Middle English Texts series [Heidelberg]).

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Postmedieval : a journal of medieval cultural studies, 3.3,"Cognitive Alterities/Body-Thinking/Neuro-medievalism" (2012)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Journal Title: Mirroring Christ as a Meme
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Mirroring Christ as a Meme (2012)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Journal Title: postmedieval : a journal of medieval cultural studies (Special issue as the proceedings of the papers read at the seventeenth biennial international congress of the New Chaucer Society) Volume: (未確定)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Pepysian Version of the Middle English Meditationes de Passione Christi (2012)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ Conference at Queen's University Belfast Volume: (未確定)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Devotional terms and the use of the Bible in Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (2011)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Middle English Volume: (未確定)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Readers and Owners of the Two Parts of Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 (2011)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Organizer: Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society in Collaboration with Twelfth York Manuscripts Conference in Honour of Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya
  • Place of Presentation: York, UK
• [Presentation] Readers and Owners of the Two Parts of Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 (2011)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Organizer: Out of Bounds : Mobility, Movement and Use of Manuscripts and Printed Books, 1350-1550, Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society in collaboration with the Twelfth York Manuscripts Conference in honour of Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya
  • Place of Presentation: York, UK
• [Presentation] Pepys版『キリストの受難の黙想』の校訂に向 けて田口まゆみ (2010)
  • Author(s): 田口まゆみ、家入葉子(京都大学)
  • Organizer: 日本中世英語英文学会 第26回全国大会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2010-12-04
• [Presentation] Mirroring Christ as a Meme (2010)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Organizer: The seventeenth biennial international congress of the New Chaucer Society
  • Place of Presentation: the Universita per Stranieri di Siena, Italy
  • Year and Date: 2010-07-19
• [Presentation] The Pepysian Version of the Middle English Meditationes de Passione Christi (2010)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Organizer: Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ(Geography of Orthodoxy)
  • Place of Presentation: Queen's University Belfast, UK
  • Year and Date: 2010-06-12
• [Presentation] Pepys版『キリスの受難の黙想』の校訂に向けて (2010)
  • Author(s): 田口まゆみ、家入葉子
  • Organizer: 日本中世英語英文学会第26回全国大会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪学院大学
• [Presentation] Mirroring Christ as a Meme (2010)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Organizer: The Seventeenth Biennial International Congress of the New Chaucer Society
  • Place of Presentation: Siena, Italy
• [Presentation] The Pepysian Version of the Middle English Meditationes de Passione Christi (2010)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi, Yoko Iyeiri
  • Organizer: Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ, Geography of Orthodoxy
  • Place of Presentation: Belfast, UK
• [Presentation] Embodied Reason : The Mechanics of Spiritual Self-Generation in the English Versions of the Meditationes Vitae Christi (2009)
  • Author(s): 田口まゆみ
  • Organizer: Toward a Science of Consciousness2009 : Investigating Inner Experience, Brain, Mind, Technology
  • Place of Presentation: Hong Kong, China
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-12
• [Presentation] Embodied Reason : the Mechanics of Spiritual Self-Generation in the English Versions of the Meditationes Vitae Christi (2009)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Organizer: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009 : Investigating Inner Experience Brain, Mind, Technology
  • Place of Presentation: Hong Kong
• [Book] Historye of the Patriarks, Middle English Texts (2010)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
• [Book] The Historye of the Patriarks (2010)
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
  • Total Pages: 418
  • Publisher: Universitatsverlag (Heidelberg)
• [Book] The Pepysian Meditation on Christ's Passion, Diuerse Imaginaciouns of Cristes Life : Devotional Culture in England and Beyond
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi
• [Book] Devotional Terms and the Use of the Bible in Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Middle English
  • Author(s): Mayumi Taguchi