The Myth of "Antemurale Christianitatis" and the Image of Europe.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	14510601
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	その他の外国語・外国文学
Research Institution	TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES
Principal Investigator	SEKIGUCHI Tokimasa Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (40126280)
Project Period (FY)	2002 – 2003
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000) Fiscal Year 2003: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000) Fiscal Year 2002: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Keywords	Poland / antemurale / rhetoric / メスィヤニズム / 十一月蜂起
Research Abstract	The myth of "Antemurale Christianitatis" had played a significant role in shaping Poles' self image as well as images of Asia, "The East" in their eyes. I have been tracing back its process not only through examining most of the hitherto existing scientific literature on the topic, but also analyzing the original texts. So far the research has successfully covered the history from the Battle of Legnica up to Batory's conquest of Polock and Pskow. The result is hereto attached as an article under the title: "The discourse of antemurale and the rhetoric-up to Kochanowski". The baroque period is so abundant in material that it would be treated in the next paper. I published another paper entitled "The ‘Nation', who continues writing the Polish language literature" (Iwanami Koza Bungaku, t.13, Tokyo 2003). It is also attached herewith.