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

在这个项目中，首席研究员（HI）把他的主要兴趣放在以下几个主题上。1)东欧国家古典学的实际情况。2)广泛分布于中欧各国的希腊天主教会的组织和实际情况。3)马提亚国王（1443-90）收藏的著名的科维纳图书馆的收藏原则。研究结果如下：1)令HI印象深刻的是，拉丁语教学在中欧天主教国家，如匈牙利、波兰、克罗地亚、斯洛伐克和捷克非常普遍，拉丁语在他们中非常流行。因此，根据HI的说法，拉丁语的普遍性并不取决于这个国家是否是罗马帝国的后裔（例如罗马尼亚），而是取决于这个国家是否是天主教徒。因此，古典文化的遗产将主要通过该地区的宗教精神来维护。(2)希腊天主教会虽然遵循拜占庭礼仪和东方教会法，但在神学观点上，如教宗的至高无上地位，圣父圣子的圣神行进等，与梵蒂冈是一致的。因此，特别是匈牙利的希腊天主教会是日本人继承古希腊罗马世界古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，特别是在词序上。3)在科维纳图书馆的特点是，包含希腊父亲的神学著作的书籍的数量是非常大的比例。根据HI的说法，这是因为马蒂亚斯的Hunyadi家族最初属于拜占庭仪式。他的这种仪式起源也将解释为什么马提亚在他的晚年抵制罗马教皇。

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.