ABSTRACT

Extant in nine manuscripts, the fourteenth-century poem The Stacions of Rome is often relegated to the dustbin of pilgrimage propaganda. Turning to its presence in two understudied manuscripts, Newberry Case MS 32 and National Archives PRO SC 6/956/5 (known as the “Bicester” roll), this article proceeds from C. David Benson’s recent argument that the Stacions should be reconsidered within the larger tradition of medieval imaginative travel in order to explore the relationship between the manuscripts’ texts and material surfaces. Through the production of temporal paradox, created between the Stacions’ spatiotemporal details and the physical rolling action of manipulating the manuscripts, the Newberry and Bicester rolls offer their readers an experience of reality that moves the reader outside the step of typical human temporal understanding. This process is most legible when considered through the lens of Gilles Deleuze’s theory of bipartite time, as laid out in The Logic of Sense ([1969 Deleuze, Gilles. (1969) 1990. The Logic of Sense. Edited by Constantin V. Boundas. Translated by Mark Lester and Charles Stivale. New York: Columbia University Press. [Google Scholar]] 1990), and reveals valuable lessons for understanding the genre with respect to the relationship between imagined time and space. When read as tools for vicarious travel, in other words, the Newberry and Bicester Stacions demonstrate how the collision of dueling temporal orders can help to produce the effect of virtual pilgrimage.

摘要

现存于九份手稿中的十四世纪诗歌《罗马的驿站》经常被归入朝圣宣传的垃圾箱。谈到它在两个未被充分研究的手稿中的存在，Newberry Case MS 32 和 National Archives PRO SC 6/956/5（被称为“Bicester”卷），本文源自 C. David Benson 最近的论点，即应该在内部重新考虑Stacions中世纪想象旅行的更大传统，以探索手稿文本和材料表面之间的关系。通过时间悖论的产生，在Stacions之间创建时空细节和操纵手稿的物理滚动动作，Newberry 和 Bicester 卷为他们的读者提供了一种现实体验，使读者脱离了典型的人类时间理解步骤。当从吉尔德勒兹的二分时间理论的角度考虑时，这个过程是最清晰的，正如《感觉的逻辑》（[ 1969 德勒兹，吉尔斯。( 1969) 1990 年。感觉的逻辑。由康斯坦丁 V. Boundas编辑。Mark Lester 和 Charles Stivale 翻译。纽约：哥伦比亚大学出版社。 [Google Scholar] 1990），并揭示了关于想象时间和空间之间关系的理解体裁的宝贵经验。换句话说，当被解读为替代旅行的工具时，纽贝里和比斯特车站展示了决斗时间顺序的碰撞如何有助于产生虚拟朝圣的效果。