2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Studies on functions of documents and creation of political order in the Carolingian empire
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26770252
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University (2015-2016)
The University of Tokyo (2014) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
NAKADA Kosuke University of St Andrews, School of History
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | フランク王国 / カロリング期 / 書簡 / 文書 / 教皇 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study was a general analysis of documents, especially letters and letter-form documents of the Carolingian Age from the perspective of political communication. It tried to show how political order could be created, kept or restored in the Carolingian world through various political networks made and kept by epistolary communication. Sources were examined from such various aspects as the process of document-issuing, types of documents, contexts of their use and their function, their textual (e.g. formulae) and physical features, the usage of titles and form of address etc. The results shows how letters and letter-form documents could (re)build and maintain a relationship between a issuer/sender and a recipient and suggests, furthermore, that those documents could establish or enhance broader communication including listeners of the documents read out publicly.
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| Free Research Field |
西洋中世史
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