2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

History of Communication in Early Modern Germany

Research Project

Project/Area Number	18520551
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	History of Europe and America
Research Institution	Hokkaido University
Principal Investigator	YAMAMOTO Fumihiko Hokkaido University, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (30222384)
Project Period (FY)	2006 – 2009
Keywords	帝国郵便 / 領邦郵便 / 時間意識 / 空間意識 / コミュニケーション
Research Abstract	This study clarified the relationship between institutional development and cooperation of both the Empire-Post and Land-Post in Early Modern Germany and post was the most important communication tool in these days and clarified that the postal development brought a mail rout map and the spread of mail time schedules including a paved road. In addition,the postal development also contributed to changes in space consciousness and time consciousness was an important opportunity to bring change and awareness of modern time and space from the medieval sense of time and space.

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