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）著名的科尔比图书馆的收藏原则，研究结果如下：（1）拉丁语教学在中欧天主教国家如匈牙利、波兰、克罗地亚、斯洛伐克和捷克的普及，给HI留下了深刻的印象，拉丁语在这些国家很受欢迎。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的后裔（例如罗马尼亚），而是取决于该国是否是天主教国家。因此，古典文化的遗产将主要由该地区的宗教精神来维持。2）希腊天主教会，虽然遵循拜占庭仪式和东方教会法，但在教皇的首要地位，圣灵从圣父和圣子中的游行等神学观点上与梵蒂冈一致。希腊天主教会，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，因为匈牙利是一个亚洲国家的语言点的词序特别。科维纳图书馆的一个特点是，包含希腊教父神学作品的书籍数量所占比例非常大。根据HI，这是因为马蒂亚斯的Hunyadi家庭最初是在拜占庭仪式。他的这种仪式起源也将解释为什么马蒂亚斯在晚年抵制罗马教皇。

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.