主讲人/Lecturer ： Prof. Richard Beadle
时间/Time：4月11日（星期一）下午3点 / Monday, Apr. 11, 3:00 p.m.
地点/ Place：外语学院东五201（东）/ Room 201 of East 5 Teaching Building
内容预告/ Highlights on the Lecture:
Before the introduction of the technology of printing with metal types, which was introduced into Europe from the mid-15th century, all books and other reading materials were reproduced by manual means—copying by hand, literally ‘manu-script’. For many centuries, down to about A.D. 1200, most books were copied by those dedicated to the religious life, especially monks, and they were often beautifully embellished with pictures and other decorative features. Thereafter, with the development of urban civilization, secular craftsmen took up the occupation of professional scribe, and by the late-medieval period (A.D. 1300–1500) many literate and educated persons from all walks of life (such as teachers, university students, merchants, local landowners and lawyers) could, and often did copy books for their own use. Such books tended to be more utilitarian in appearance, but could still be decorated with fine calligraphy.
The kinds of script used for reproducing literary texts also evolved in various ways across the same period. While the traditional and laborious ‘text hand’ of the monastic culture was preserved for books of the best quality, new varieties of cursive script, often involving the extensive use of abbreviations, also came into use, making the copying of texts a swifter and more economical process.
This lecture will illustrate and discuss the historical development of the main kinds of script used to transmit English literary texts from around A. D. 1200 down to the beginning of the print era, in around A.D. 1450–1500: chivalric romances, tales, lyric poetry, religious works of many types, plays, and the writings of major authors of the time such as Geoffrey Chaucer (the Canterbury Tales) and William Langland (Piers Plowman).
讲座人简介：Prof Richard Beadle
剑桥大学文学硕士，约克大学哲学博士，剑桥大学文学博士
剑桥大学圣约翰学院英语研究员
剑桥大学英语系中世纪英语文学及古文体学教授
2014-15，剑桥大学桑德斯文献学讲师，‘亨利·布莱德肖及文献学基础’系列讲座
2012-13，牛津大学莱尔文献学讲师，‘中世纪晚期英语自传面观’系列讲座
研究兴趣：
中世纪英语文学，尤其是戏剧的文本转播。近期学术著作有新编《约克戏剧》（两册，EETS 2009-13），《剑桥中世纪英语戏剧释读》（2008第二版）。其他发表过著作的学术领域有：中古英语文体学及文本研究，中古英语方言研究，语言史研究，书史研究，中世纪英语书信，乔叟，莎士比亚及十七世纪古书收藏家。
开设课程：
中古英语文体学及文本研究
乔叟作品研究
中世纪英语戏剧
中世纪诗歌中的梦境与幻象
中世纪喜剧
近期出版著作
1. 与Colin Richmond合编《帕斯顿家书及十五世纪文书》，第三部，EETS，补充系列22（2006年牛津大学出版社出版）本书获2007年英语文学协会比阿特丽斯·怀特奖。
2. “约翰·法斯托尔夫的法语书”，《中世纪文本解读》，Graham D. Caie及Denis Renevey合编（伦敦，2008），pp. 163-89。
3. 与Alan J. Fletcher合编《剑桥中世纪英语戏剧释读》（2008第二版）。
4. “尼古拉斯·兰开斯特，格洛斯特的理查德及约克“圣体”戏剧”，《约克神秘剧：城市中的演出》，M. Rogerson编（2011年出版），pp.31-52。
5. 《约克戏剧：大英图书馆藏Additional MS 35290》（两册，EETS 2009-13），《剑桥中世纪英语戏剧释读》（2008第二版）。
6. 与Colin Burrow合编《1450-1700年间手抄本杂文选》（2011）。
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外语学院
外国文学研究所
2016年4月5日
