2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Influence of St Bridget's Revelations on Margery's Book : An Examination of Manuscripts- The Oxford Lincoln College MS Lat 69/75
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12610475
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
KUKITA Naoe Hokkaido Univ., College of Medical Technology, Asso. Prof., 医療技術短期大学部, 助教授 (00271693)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | Margery Kempe / St Bridget of Sweden / The Oxford Lincoln College MS Lat 69 / 75 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research focused on Margery's veneration of St Bridget of Sweden, who exerted considerable influence in shaping Margery's spiritual ambition to be a spouse of God. Bridget's Revelations provide Margery with a way to express her spiritual experience, stimulating a dynamic account of her mystical marriage and the Roman sojourn that follows.
At the same time, parallels between Bridget and Margery occur in Margery's meditation on the Passion where emphasis is put on the Virgin's motherhood and on her compassion for Christ's humanity. Although the substance of their accounts on the lives of the Virgin and Christ is drawn from scriptural sources and the Meditationes vitae Christi, and account of Margery's Passion meditation and Bridget's Revelations reveal distinct similarities.
Noticeably, Alan of Lynn, a Carmelite and a lifelong friend of Margery's made Index to the Revelations, The Oxford Lincoln College MS Lat 69/75. This study explored the two Lincoln College manuscripts and investig
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ated the way Bridget's revelations influenced on Margery's spiritual experience.
Examination into the two manuscripts revealed that they are very different affairs, and probably not produced by the same hand, since, having made one index, a writer would almost certainly use that as the base for a revision. The index in Lat MS75 does refer to the Sermo Angelicus at some length for its entry on Mary : a later marginal note f 2r includes reference to BK 8, too, while that in MS 69 does not. The principles of citation differ in each : MS 75 cities by book + chapter no., while MS 69 favours running chapter numbers for all books up to the end of BK 7, and goes no further. So Roger Ellis's argument in 1982 ('Flores Ad Fabricandam…Coronam' : An Investigation into the Use of the Revelations of St Bridget of Sweden in Fifteenth-Century England', Medium Aevum 51, 163-86) that they were identical, though MS 69 was fuller, is simply not true. Therefore, further investigation into both the authorship readership of the manuscripts is strongly expected。 Less
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Research Products
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