REEXAMINATION ON THE PAGAN TRADITION IN RENAISSANCE

这项研究的目的是从跨学科的角度重新审视“古典古代的复兴”或“异教传统的复兴”，这被认为是文艺复兴时代的特征。这项研究的结果是，异教传统的复兴是通过与当时的基督教思想在不同的学术领域进行复杂的结合来完成的。我们认识到，要理解文艺复兴的整体形象，不仅要从哲学思想上研究文艺复兴的宗教基础，还要从文学作品、视觉艺术、政治理论等多个领域进行研究。研究人员的研究成果在我们的研究项目会议上(1993-94年四次)报告，我们进行了热烈的讨论，形成了全面理解文艺复兴异教传统的基础性观点。为了继续我们的研究，我们有几次机会与正在进行其他领域研究的研究人员进行讨论。为了公开我们的研究成果，我们出版了《文艺复兴研究》(第一卷，1994年7月)。我们对日本文艺复兴研究的文献进行了初步的调查。

The object of this research was to reexamine 'the revival of the classical antiquity' or 'the rebirth of the pagan tradition' , which had been regarded to characterise the age of Renaissance, from the interdisciplinary point of view. As the result of this research, it turned out that 'the rebirth of pagan tradition' was accomplished through its complicated union with the Christian thought of the that days, in various fields of learnnig. And we acknowleged that for the understanding of the whole image of Renaissance it was necessary to investgate into 'the religious basis in Renaissance' , not only in thephilosophic thought but also in other many fields which included the literarly works, the visual arts, the political theories, etc.The summary of our research is as follows.1. The research results of investigators were reported in the meeting of our research project(four times in 1993-94) , and we discussed so eagerly that we formed the foundational view for the comprehensive understanding on'the pagan tradition of Renaissance' .2. To proceed our research, we had several opportunities to discuss with the investigators who were carrying out researches in other fields of learning.3. To make public our research results, we published Renaissance Studies (Vol.1, July 1994).4. We made a preliminary investigation so that we would 1ist the literature on Renaissance studies in Japan.