| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The head investigator studied manuscripts written by Symeon of Durham, famous historiographer and energetic scribe in the twelfth century, at British Library, Bodleian Library, Glasgow University Library, Library of Durham Cathedral, National Library of Scotland et cetera, to establish the basis for analyzing how nations and societies were perceived in medieval northern Britain. The classical and hardly available work, Durham Cathedral Manuscripts by R. A. B. Mynors, Oxford, 1939, was able to be purchased in this research project, and it proved to be very helpful. The head investigator studied many works including charters, theological and historical writings, and understood that interdisciplinary approach is necessary for the proper comprehension of Symeon's political thought. He also corrected some mistakes in the identification of Symeon's handwritings by M. Gullick.
The head investigator also read two papers in the international conferences : 'Nation addresses in English Episcopal Acta' in the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University in 2005, and 'Migration and assimilation seen from the 'nation address'in post-1066 Britain' in the Anglo-Japanese Conference of historians at the Institute of Historical Research of London University, in 2006. They were concerning his original analysis of 'nation addresses' in the charters of post-1066 Britain and highly praised. In them, the Durham cases were highlighted as the suggestive ones for the research of the relationship between the notion about the nations and the existing societies.
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