The relationship between central and local authorities of the Kingdom of Hungary concerning "Gypsy" policy in the second half of the 18th century

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23107
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0103:History, archaeology, museology, and related fields
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: ICHIHARA Shimpei 神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 助教 (50842423)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 近世史 / 18世紀 / ハンガリー / ロマ／「ジプシ―」 / 中央・地方関係 / マイノリティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aims to examine the various policies aimed at controlling and legally and socially "assimilating" the people called "Gypsy" in the Kingdom of Hungary in the period of centralized reforms of 18th century, and to reconstruct aspects of central-local relations during this period, in which their confrontations have traditionally tended to be emphasised, based on aspects of collaboration and coordination. As a result of research conducted in Hungarian archives and other institutions before and after the Covid-19 pandemic, I ascertained and listed the remaining archives concerning this project, and using some of them, I confirmed the attitudes of the local authorities and the actual exchange of views with the central authority on "Gypsies", particularly in the north-central and north-eastern provinces of the Kingdom of Hungary at the time.

Free Research Field

近世ヨーロッパ史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

18世紀ハンガリー王国の「ツィガーニ」に関する研究は、先行研究が地方史料の分析を中心に蓄積されてきたが、中央行政府ハンガリー総督府の史料の調査や活用は十分ではなかった。本研究は、『ハンガリー総督府文書群』所蔵の関連文書の調査を通じ、当該集団をめぐる政策決定者・各実施者の認識の地域差や両者の調整の局面を提示し、中央主導の「ツィガーニ」政策作成・遂行における中央・地方間の関係の一端を解明した点に学術的意義がある。
また、近・現代に構築された前提とともに語られがちな周縁的集団の歴史に前近代の同時代史料を起点に取り組んでいる点で、「歴史の中のマイノリティ」を研究するための方法的議論にも接続できる。