| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ARIMITU Hideyuki Kochi University, Faculty of Humanities, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (80253326)
YAMABE Noriko Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (00174772)
KAWAHARA Atsushi Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Humanities, Associate professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (70186120)
NAOE Shinichi Kyushu University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (10164112)
TSURUSHIMA Hirokazu Kumamoto University, Faculty of Education, Associate professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (20188642)
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| Research Abstract |
Internationalisation of historical research has required Japanese historians of Medieval Europe to get the traditional method as well as the newest one of historical research in European discipline, especially a research based on original documents. We have organised seventeen Japanese scholars to survey the historiography of European Medieval history, methods, disciplines, and how the Japanese can approach the original documents. Sources surveyed were as follow ; chronicles of Melrose and Chronica Magistri Rogeri Houedene, Glanvill and Bracton, Privilegium of German Emperors, writ-charters and pipe rolls of Norman kings, imbreviatura by Venetian notaries, English cartularies, Domesday Book, feet of fines, plea rolls of the court of king's bench, king Edward IV's household books, account rolls of the countess of Leicester, manorial account and court rolls, Flemish municipal accounts, and Elizabethan visitation articles by churchwardens. Through our studies and discussions we have acquired the basic ideas about the medieval studies using original documents, and construct a database about English medieval cartularies which could be open to the public in the form of a floppy disc. Some of our members read a paper at historical conference in Britain and the United States, and published articles in English in the Journal of Medieval History, or Proceedings of the Battle Conference. Although we tried to include almost all the fields of the documents from diplomatiques to narratives, there still remains a lot of historical materials not yet surveyed by us, like those on literature or theology. We plan to survey the sources of those fields next.
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