1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
RESEARCH ON INTEGRATION OF SMALL BUSINESS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE ; FAMILY ECONOMY,MARKET AND INSTITUTIONS
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07303010
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKITA Hiromiti Kyushu Univ., Fac.of Economics, Prof., 経済学部, 教授 (50117149)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FUJII Yoshio KYUSHUSANGYO Univ., Fac.of Economics, Prof., 経済学部, 教授 (70183928)
SEKI Tetsuyuki RYUTSUKEIZAI Univ., Fac.of Sociology, Prof., 社会学部, 教授 (60206620)
YAMADA Masahiko KUMAMOTO Univ., Fac.of Literature, Assoc.Prof., 文学部, 助教授 (90202382)
SAITO Keiko MEIJI Univ., Fac.of Literature, Prof., 文学部, 教授 (90022467)
TANGE Sakae SHIMONOSEKI-CITY-UNIV., Fac.of Economics, Prof., 経済学部, 教授 (10179921)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Keywords | SMALL BUSINESS / MARKET / POWER / INSTITUTION / SACRED AND SECULAR / MARGINALITY / SOCIAL INTEGRATION / SYSTEM |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of our project is to study empirically some aspects of the economic, social , political and religious integration of those who held their own economic bases in medieval Europe, whether they lived in town or in countryside. This idea occurs to us through the former project about "relationship between town and country in medieval Europe" which is organized by Y.MORIMOTO in the years 1981-88 and confirms at the same time their intimate interdependency and an importance of markets as their meeting places. So we also aim at break through the traditional paradigma represented by historical dichotomies such as "town versus country" , "natural economy versus monetary economy" , "distance market versus local market" , "free versus regulative" and instead of them we try to give much light on reciprocity -redistribution relations under various type of "small business in medieval Europe".
We chose at first a typical form of such "small scale business" form each of three periods--early, high
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and late middle ages--and try to grasp it's characteristics. In order to sum up our research results we make use of two oppotunities --the mini conference held twice or three times annually at Fukuoka or Kujyu, and the research report at the regular conference of some history societies. The highlight of our activity is the 65th Annual Conference of the Socio-Economic History Society held on May 1996 at Kyushu University, which holds a high position as interim results of our research activities (see the English summaries of four papers in Socio-Economic History, 62-2,1997). This Confernce also becomes a turning point for us. In addition to the peasant and the artisan we must take into consideration those social groups who never had their own economic bases but depended on some forms of social relives. So we turn our viewpoint from "integration of small business" to "social integration" , and decide to pursue the economic, social, political and religious integration of many social groups inclusive marginalities. Our final research results will be published in a coming year under the title of "Some Aspects of Social Integration in Medieval and Eraly Modem Europe". Less
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