ABSTRACT This article describes three models for integrating the study of medieval texts within world literature. First, “Mediterraneans” point to sites where diverse cosmopolitan regional centers are connected by a sea. Second, “distant reading” is deployed in tracing literary forms and themes over long periods of time and across cultures within medieval literature. Third, and most extensively, a model based on “moving things” is developed to track the ways in which objects and persons are used in medieval texts to precipitate cultural and social change on a large scale. Following the traveling objects in The Canterbury Tales, The Book of John Mandeville, the Kebra Nagast, and the Travels of Ibn Battuta, the article presents new patterns of conceptualizing literary history.

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中世纪世界文学建模

摘要 本文描述了在世界文学中整合中世纪文本研究的三种模式。首先，“地中海人”指的是不同的国际大都会区域中心通过大海相连的地点。其次，“远距离阅读”被用于追溯中世纪文学中长期跨文化的文学形式和主题。第三，也是最广泛的一种，开发了一个基于“移动事物”的模型，以追踪中世纪文本中物体和人物的使用方式，以促成大规模的文化和社会变革。继《坎特伯雷故事集》、《约翰·曼德维尔之书》、《凯布拉·纳加斯特》和《伊本·白图泰游记》中的旅行对象之后，本文提出了概念化文学史的新模式。