| 研究実績の概要 |
During FY2022, some results of my research on Diego Collado, his activities and his works, were presented in four international conferences, two in Japan and two in Spain. The first ones were focused on Collado’s activities from 1625 to 1634 and presented some results of my research in Spanish archives in FY2021. In Spain, the main topic of one of my lectures was the importance of Nebrija in the works of Diego Collado and how this preference collided with the preferred grammarian of the Jesuits, Alvares.
In collaboration with professors Marti-Oroval and Shimada, I have published a peer-reviewed article and a monograph about an important archival finding that sheds a significant new light about the context of Collado’s activities, especially regarding the controversies between religious orders about the evangelization of Japan. It is a document found in the Archivo Franciscano Ibero-Oriental (AFIO) that reflects a controversy between mendicants and Jesuits in the Tohoku area in 1626-1627. This document was probably sent by the Franciscans in Japan to Diego Collado to support his position against the Jesuits.
In FY2022 my archival research was conducted in several Spanish libraries and archives, and in several ecclesiastical archives in Rome. In the first case, my main goal was to collect and study all the memorials written by Collado, which will be the subject of a monograph soon to be published. In the second one, I found a series of exceptional documents in a Roman archive, the most important of which are three Latin autograph works written by Collado previously unknown.
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| 現在までの達成度 (区分) |
現在までの達成度 (区分)
1: 当初の計画以上に進展している
理由
The research in European libraries and archives in FY2021 and FY2022 has resulted in some extraordinary findings related to Collado life, work, and historical context. Some of my recent publications and my current research is focused precisely in those previously unknown of barely studied documents. For example, now I am in the last stages of the elaboration of a monograph about the many memorials, most of them directed to the Pope or to the King of Spain, written by Collado between 1622 and 1635, of which only a few were previously known and studied. The monograph will include a critical edition of all of them, together with a study of their contents. This are the works written by Collado more directly related to his political and ecclesiastical activities in Rome and Spain. Other newly found documents, such as the autograph texts found in Rome or some other documents related to the controversies between the mendicants, led by Collado, and the Jesuits between 1620 and 1640, will be the topic of other studies which will be published soon. The critical edition and English translation of the Ars grammaticae Japonicae linguae and the Modus confitendi et examinandi, probably the most important of Collado’s works, is also in its last stages.
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| 今後の研究の推進方策 |
My research in FY2023, which will be the last one of this project, will have three objectives. The first one will be to complete, or at least, to try to complete, the archival research on Collado’s life and work in Spanish and Italian libraries and archives. The main goal of this research will be to compile all the unknown works written by Collado, which will change the current scholarly view of the Dominican friar, of the relationships between religious orders in the evangelization of Japan, of the situation of Christianity at the end of the Christian Century in Japan, and, finally, of the organization of the Catholic missions in the 17th century. On the basis of this documentation, the second objective will be to ascertain the life and work of Diego Collado in the broader context of the evangelization of Japan, and, in general, in the complex organization of the Catholic missions in the 17th century. Related to this second goal are several forthcoming publication about the relationship between the Dominicans and the Franciscans and their common position against the Jesuits during the 17th century. Finally, the third goal will be the completion of the critical edition of Collado’s works, accompanied by thorough annotations and introduction, first, the memorials, or political writings, and then the Modus confitendi and the Ars grammaticae.
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