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¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This Research concentrates on motives of gentry grantee of indulgences (and letters of fraternity) in Fifteenth Century England. Firstly, the investigator interprets social and religious motives of grantees behind 7 letters of fraternity to the Yorkshire Plumptons, in relation to family history of the Plumptons. These letters of fraternity are archived in the West Yorkshire Archive Services, Leeds, and Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Cleamont. Among many letters of fraternity in the National Archives, the Langley family's collection of 9 letters is very unique for its volume (Clerk-Maxwell mentioned only six letters in Some Letters, p.48). The original collection consisted of at least 10 letters, probably accumulated by Katherine, wife of Henry Langley, esquire of Rickling Hall in Essex. The ten letters of fraternity ranged from 1458 to 1510 or 1511. The Archbishop of Canterbury granted one letter to her parents of Urswick in 1458, and the London Charterhouse granted one letter to her husband's parents of Langley in 1462. Five letters are granted from 1475 to 1487 to her and her husband, and three from 1508 to 1510/11 to her as a widow and vowess. So we can conceive socioreligious motives of Katherine Langley behind ten letters of fraternity. Lastly, the investigator analyzes two indulgences ; one was for Sir John Pelham of Sussex in June 1412 (British Library Additional Charter 29260) and the other extremely beautiful one was for Henry Lord FitzHugh also in June 1412 (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Cleamont, Leeds DD56/ Add (1987)/1A/1). These two letters of fraternity, the investigator suggests, are concrete examples of the religious tendency of the courtiers of Henry IV and Henry V, which Jonathan Hughes indicated in his book, Pastors and Visionaries. The investigator read three papers of the subjects from 2003 to 2005 at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.
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