| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project investigates various kinds of medieval texts written in several European languages, including English, with the purpose of analyzing how the supernatural is received, described, and understood, often within a framework derived from classical (i.e., Greek and Roman) literature. It turned out that when people in the medieval period wrote about what was unknown and strange to them, they devised diverse methods of narration for the purpose; literary variations often occur, reflecting emphases favored by this or that author. Information about, and knowledge of, the supernatural grew out of cultural inheritances from the classical period, a fact which tells us much about intellectual activity in the late Middle Ages.
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