Succession and Development of Classical Studies in the East European and Slavic Countries

在这个项目中，首席调查员(HI)将他的主要兴趣放在以下主题上：1)东欧国家古典研究的实际情况；2)希腊天主教会的组织和实际情况，它广泛地延伸到中欧国家；3)著名的科尔维纳图书馆的藏书原则，马蒂亚斯国王(1443-90年)收藏。研究结果如下：1)令HI印象深刻的是，拉丁语的教学在匈牙利、波兰、克罗地亚、斯洛伐克和捷克等中欧天主教国家非常普遍，拉丁语对这些国家非常受欢迎。因此，根据HI的说法，拉丁语的普遍性并不取决于该国是否是罗马帝国(例如罗马尼亚)的后裔，而是取决于该国是否信奉天主教。因此，古典文化的遗产将主要通过该地区的宗教灵性来维持。2)希腊天主教会虽然遵循拜占庭仪式和东方教会法，但在神学方面与梵蒂冈一致，如教皇至上，圣灵从父和子的游行等。因此，希腊天主教会，特别是在匈牙利，是日本人继承古代希腊-罗马世界经典遗产的一个很好的样本，因为匈牙利在语言上是一个亚洲国家，特别是在语序方面。3)在科尔维纳图书馆，包含希腊教父神学著作的书籍数量比例非常大。根据HI的说法，这是因为马蒂亚斯的Hunyadi家族最初是在拜占庭仪式中。他的这种仪式起源也解释了为什么马蒂亚斯在他晚年抵制罗马教皇。

In this project, the head investigator (HI) put his main interests on the following topics.1)The actual situation of Classical studies in the East European countries.2)Organization and actual situation of the Greek Catholic Church, which extends widely over the Central European countries.3)The principle of collection of the famous Corvina Library, that King Matthias (1443-90) collected.The results of research are as follows :1)It was very impressive for HI that the instruction of the Latin language spread very universally over the Central European Catholic countries, e.g.Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Slovakia and Czech, and Latin is very popular for them. According to HI consequently, the universality of the Latin language does not depend on if the country is a descendant of the Roman Empire (e.g.Romania), but on if that country is catholic or not. Accordingly, the heritage of the classical culture will be maintained chiefly by the religious spirituality of the area.2)Greek Catholic Church, which though follows the Byzantine rite and the Eastern Canon Law, agrees with Vatican in such theological points as the primacy of the Pope, the procession of the Holy Spirit both from the Father and the Son, etc. Thus, the Greek Catholic Church especially in Hungary is a nice sample for Japanese people in succession to the classical heritage of the ancient Greco-Roman world, because Hungary is an Asiatic country linguistically in point of the word order particularly.3)In the Corvina Library it is characteristic that the number of the books which contain the Greek Father's theological works is very large in proportion. According to the HI, this is because the Matthias' Hunyadi family was originally in the Byzantine rite. This ritual origin of him will also explain why Matthias resisted the Roman Popes in his later years.