The Military Enlightenment in the long-eighteenth-century British Isles

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01076
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 03040:History of Europe and America-related
• Research Institution: Gifu University
• Principal Investigator: Tsujimoto Satoshi 岐阜大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (50706934)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 軍事啓蒙 / 長い18世紀のイギリス / 新しい軍事史 / 複合国家

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The recent scholarship of European military history has shed a light on the wide-ranging military reforms planned and realized in the ancien-regime France and Germany (military enlightenment), while very little attention has been paid to the case in the British Isles. The aim of this study was to examine the development of this phenomenon in long-eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. The focus was on three major elements of the ‘military enlightenment’: 1. military skills, theory and education, 2. religion and morality in the armed forces, 3. military medicine. By closely examining what reform was planned in each sphere and how it was carried into practice, the study pointed out some key features of the British military enlightenment.

Free Research Field

近世イギリス史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまで「軍事啓蒙」研究は大陸ヨーロッパを中心に進められてきたが、本研究がイギリスの事例を加えることで、その知見をさらに深めることができた。また、本研究は「長い18世紀」におけるイギリスとヨーロッパおよび植民地との間の人的・知的交流を論じるものであり、イギリス史とヨーロッパ史、帝国史との架橋を可能にする有益な視点を提供できたと考えている。