Revisiting the War in the Receipt, 1572–1609*

This article explores a protracted dispute in the exchequer of receipt that initiated lasting procedural reform. The argument revolved around contested narratives of exchequer history which had direct implications for officers’ fees, rights and status. The ferocity of the dispute has rendered it one of the most-studied episodes in exchequer history, yet historians have largely focused on procedural reform and dismissed the ardour of the protagonists. This article recontextualises the dispute within its political and physical context in the Palace of Westminster to argue that the feud was not merely personal but political. By drawing together officers’ personal papers with exchequer records and architectural records of the palace, this article demonstrates the agency of individuals in influencing institutional reform. The protagonists operated within webs of overlapping loyalties between crown, institution and patrons which reflects the place of the Receipt in central government. Consideration of the warring officers in this context reveals that the outcome of the dispute was not in spite of their passions, but a product of them.     

Alice Munro,Charles McGrath,and the Shaping of “The Turkey Season”

Using archival evidence of the editorial process behind the publication of the story “The Turkey Season,” this article explores the collaborative literary relationship between Alice Munro and one of her long-time editors at The New Yorker magazine, Charles McGrath. It reveals McGrath’s exceptional contribution to the story—restructuring it by combining the two versions Munro submitted into a composite—and theorizes the composite version’s effects on the epistemological grounding of the story and the narrator’s certainty about her own memory of the events she recounts, both of which are features that are often considered characteristic of Munro’s style in her mature writing.     

西方近代边疆理论的初步发展

文章认为，在资本主义的产生、发展时期，民族国家的出现是近代边疆理论形成的重要前提，重商主义与殖民扩张则是近代边疆理论形成的内在动力。这一时期，传统边疆向近代边疆的转变、国际法的初现也对近代边疆理论的发展产生了重要影响。     

Liminality Wanted. Liminal landscapes and literary spaces: The Way of St. James

Abstract

The term limen was introduced to anthropological studies following Van Gennep’s theories (1960) about liminality. Among them, Victor and Edith Turner (1978) defined pilgrimage as a liminal experience, as it implies being between two existential levels that, through rituality, favours reflection. In this sense, the case of The Way of St. James (Spain) is an interesting field or research as it is loaded with contemporary meanings. Its landscapes assume the nature of spiritual and therapeutic ones; here, the physical and built environment, social conditions and human perceptions produce an atmosphere favourable to spiritual healing. On the basis of these emotions, liminality is the essence of this pilgrimage experience, not only during the same, but especially afterwards. As a matter of fact, this spiritual journey involves the search for one’s self once back home, thus acting in the process of formation of the individual. Drawing on the need for improving researches on landscape perception approach in tourism studies, we pretend to singularise the pilgrimage landscape from a liminal perspective in order to point out the need for liminality before, during and after the pilgrimage. This is achieved by exploring perceptions and emotions expressed in a corpus of travel literary production. These narrative works are not limited to describe the pilgrimage experiences; rather they make liminality a literary theme to magnify their experiences. As a result, the concept of liminal literary landscape is used to refer to pilgrims’ desire to revive liminality through the pages of travel narratives, in order to continue enjoying these emotions and feelings. These travel narratives are producing new literary modes based on the geographical exploration of the landscapes of The Way in relation to human feelings.     

New evidence on the origins of the Latin Mirror of Simple Souls from a forgotten Paduan manuscript

This article examines an overlooked fifteenth-century document which attacks and refutes 35 extracts from a Latin copy of the condemned fourteenth-century work The Mirror of Simple Souls. It gives an overview of the document's origins, provenance and contents, and then discusses how certain omissions in the text's source citations have crucial implications for more firmly establishing the date of origin for the Latin translation of the Mirror.     

中世纪城市国家“公债”及其“合法性”论争

中世纪城市国家的公债是一种借贷形式,其合法性论争正是围绕这种借贷形式和教会高利贷禁令的关系而展开。经过长期而曲折的论争,公债最终和高利贷划清界限并实现了其合法化。合法化的主要原因即在于此时期西欧经济与社会情境的变迁以及与之相适应的知识精英对其做出的积极回应:一方面,变化了的社会情境使人们无法逃避以公债为重要内容的新型生活方式,奠定了公债合法性的社会根基;另一方面,变化中的知识精英的话语阐释引导并最终完成了其合法化。     

清华简与《尚书》、《逸周书》的研究

清华大学藏战国竹简中,有《尚书》、《逸周书》和佚书20多篇,其中清华简《金縢》能和伏生所传今文《尚书》直接联系。从清华简来看,现在不能证明,也不能反对孔子编百篇《尚书》之说。但是清华简足以说明东晋以后的古文《尚书》没有历史根据。清华简中,《尹诰》、《尹至》篇有很多的用词和语法同今文《尚书》中的《夏书》和《商书》是一样的。清华简里没有《尚书》和《逸周书》的差别,因此我们对《逸周书》里面若干篇书的估价,还应该提高。     

《史记》与《周易》

《史记》深受《周易》的影响,本文从以下几个方面作了说明司马迁十分推崇《周易》,视其为圣人之书;“致命遂志”是司马迁的最高价值追求;“殊途同归”、“易简”、“时变”等观念是其写作《史记》的重要指导思想;《周易》中的很多辞句,成为其立论的依据。     

《夷坚志》佚文拾补

洪迈《夷坚志》,原420卷,后渐散佚,今存仅约原书之半。上世纪初,张元济从诸书辑得26卷。此后,何卓、康保成、李裕民、王秀惠、李剑国、赵章超陆续有响应,先先后后搜辑了一些佚作。但由于该书内容驳杂,兼具子、史、集三部之特征,导致其散佚面大,辑佚工作并未结束。笔者于近年的宋代文言小说研究中,翻检诸书,复得佚文80余则。     

明代播州杨氏墓出土冠饰上的蓝宝石矿料来源研究

目前国内出土了大量不同种类的明代彩色宝石文物,但绝大多数彩色宝石并不产自中国。为探讨播州杨氏墓出土的七凤三龙金冠上镶嵌的蓝宝石的矿料来源,本研究采用微量元素与内部包裹体特征相结合的方法对样品进行分析。通过激光剥蚀-电感耦合等离子体质谱法(LA-ICP-MS)分析样品的微量元素特征,发现样品的Fe、Ga含量较低、Mg含量较高以及Ga/Mg比值较低,以此得出样品为变质成因的蓝宝石,排除其产自岩浆成因矿床。观察样品的内部包裹体特征,并与不同变质成因蓝宝石产地样品的内部包裹体特征进行对比分析,得出该样品内部包裹体特征更类似于缅甸、马达加斯加蓝宝石。最后结合不同地区蓝宝石矿床发现、开采历史记载,综合研究分析得出,该件蓝宝石文物的矿料最可能来自于缅甸矿区。此项研究可为探索我国古代以蓝宝石为代表的彩色宝石类文物的产地研究提供一定科学依据。