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Fraternity as forging unity of local societies in Anglo-Norman England

Research Project

Project/Area Number09610389
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field History of Europe and America
Research InstitutionKumamoto University

Principal Investigator

TSURUSHIMA Hirokazu  Fac. of Edu., Kumamoto University, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (20188642)

Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
Project Status Completed(Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost : ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1999 : ¥500,000 (Direct Cost : ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1998 : ¥500,000 (Direct Cost : ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1997 : ¥900,000 (Direct Cost : ¥900,000)
KeywordsFraternity / Anglo-Norman / England / Abbey / Ramsey / Intercession / Fief / Knight / 12世紀 / 命の書 / Natio / 中世 / 農村の宗教ギルド / ノルマン征服 / 封建制 / 社会的結合 / 異文化接触
Research Abstract

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the religious fraternity as an institution of intercession, which had an influence on European societies in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. This fraternity is a covenant (conventio) made between a monastery and another individual monastery, monk, priest, gild or lay person, for the salvation of one's soul through the prayer of the monks. In England its study, has been strangely neglected. In this research I am concerned with the fraternity of laymen with the monks after the Norman Conquest, and I have limited the discussion to the relationship between fraternity and land-grants at Ramsey Abbey, so that we may see here one aspect of local society.
In the course of the ceremonial entrance into fraternity, land was granted to laymen. We should take into consideration a close relationship between the so-called feudal ties (the personal ties between abbot and man through the land-grant) and spiritual ties through the establishment of fraternity.
The members of Ramsey Abbey's fraternity covered a wide range of social classes from noble families, minor noble families, shrieval families, local worthies, members of local English families, and even someone with a landed interest in London. The fraternity also included some local priests and even a parish.
The content of the fraternity given by the monks differed between people according to their donation, status and power. In all cases, however, worldly ties and spiritual ties, or in other words, ties for the living and ties for the dead, got married in the fraternity covenant. This 'marriage' seems to have contributed to the solidarity of the lordship of Ramsey Abbey. We may also say that although the bond was vertical as between lord and man, the sense of sharing in prayers or burial places also gave a sense of unity to the members of the fraternity within their local community.

Report

(4results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • 1997 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(6results)

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  • [Publications] Hirokazu Tsurushima: "Forging Unity between Monks and Laity in Anglo-Norman England"International Medieval Research. 6. 133-146 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hirokazu Tsurushima: "Forging Unity between Monks and Laity in Anglo-Norman England"The Fraternity of Ramsey Abbey, in Negotiating Secular & Ecclesiastical Power (International Medieval Research, 6) eds. by Henk Teunis, Andrew Wareham, Arnould-Jan A. Bijsterveld (Brepolis,). 133-146 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] H.Tsurishima: "Forging Unitybetween Monks and Laity in Anglo-Notman England: The Fraternity of Ramsey Abbey"International Medieval Research. 6. 133-146 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴島 博和: "ネイション-研究史・総合原理・「世界」における位置" 歴史評論. 584. 56-64 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] H.Tsurushima: "The Fraternity of Ramsey Abbey in the eleventh and twelfth centuries" Secular and Ecclesiastical Power. Brepols(印刷中). (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴嶋博和: "The Fraternity of Ramsey Abbey in the eleventh and twelfth centuries" Flrnoud-Jan A.Bijsterveld(ed.)Negotiation,Punishment,Ratification:studies on the Interaction of Secular and Ecolesiastical Power in the High Middle Ages. (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report

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