History and fiction in the 16th century France

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26884010
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	European literature
Research Institution	Nihon University (2015) The University of Tokyo (2014)
Principal Investigator	SHISHIMI Tsuyoshi 日本大学, 法学部, 助教 (40738069)
Project Period (FY)	2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	ルネサンス / 歴史記述論 / 古典の受容 / 16世紀 / フランス / キュロスの教育
Outline of Final Research Achievements	For the purpose of making clear how developed in the 16th century France the question concerning a border between history and fiction, we analyzed the reception of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia (the Education of Cyrus) and of pseudo-Dares the Phrygian’s History of the Destruction of Troy, two classical texts ambiguous about their historicity. Our studies show that the debates stimulated by these texts not only provided the theoretical arguments for the historiographical problems, but also gave rise to the justification of poesy and literary fiction as contrasted with the History.