2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The influence of vernacular visionary texts of continental female mystics on fifteenth-century church reform in England
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19K00415
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Meiji University (2023)
Shizuoka University (2019-2022) |
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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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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| Free Research Field |
中世英文学
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| 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。
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