2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Sovereignty and Empire, Multilateral Research on the Historical Precondition of the Concept of Sovereignty and its Formation in Germany
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15530085
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
GONZA Takeshi Hokkaido Univ., Graduate School of Law, Prof., 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (50215513)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAGUCHI Masaki Hokkaido Univ., Graduate School of Law, Prof., 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (20206931)
YAMAMOTO Fumihiko Hokkaido Univ., Graduate School of Letter, Asso.Prof., 大学院・文学研究科, 助教授 (30222384)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | Sovereignty / Roman Empire / Papal supremacy / Post / Rheinbund / Confederation / German history |
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| Research Abstract |
This research attempted to explicate the origin and genealogy of the concept of sovereignty historically by tracing out it from the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 19^<th> century, through the Peace of Westphalia which is supposed to have concluded the German civil war in the 17^<th> century, to the Golden Bull in the 14^<th> century which was caused by the conflict between spiritual and secular power.
1.Masaki TAGUCHI searched for the medieval origin of the pluralistic imperial constitution in the political process of the Empire which brought out the Golden Bull of 1356 as its constitutional basis. He pointed out the leading role of spiritual princes in this process, the superiority of papal power resulting from it and the significance of the German relation with other realms, and elucidated the weight of spiritual-secular relation in the imperial regime as precondition of the confessional opposition since the 16^<th> century.
2.Fumihiko YAMAMOTO confirmed the continuance of that German situation after 1648 where the sovereignty was divided between Empire and territorial states, on the basis of the Peace of Westphalia, and explicated the competing relation of Empire and territorial states (especially North German princes) about the unprescribed problem of ‘postal right', i.e.the competence of communicating means which was about to be established as the indispensable infrastructure of the modern state
3.Takeshi GONZA investigated the German reception and formulation of the sovereignty-concept by Hegel in the context of contemporary experiences of the collapse of the Empire and the following reforms of Rheinbund after 1806, and proved that the sovereignty-concept which was recognized first in the agreement of 1806 had the operation of promoting modernization which wasn't seen in the Empire, above all on the basis of the controversy by Rheinbund-publicitsts and Hegel's sovereignty-theory 1817-1820
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