A Study of the Boris and Gleb Cycle

本研究旨在从故事结构分析和文本语言学等新方法的角度，研究属于鲍里斯和格莱布周期的作品：1)1015年的编年史记述《关于鲍里斯的谋杀案》；2)匿名作者的《鲍里斯和格莱布的故事》；3)奈斯特的《鲍里斯和格莱布生平选集》，从故事结构分析和文本语言学等新方法的角度，厘清它们之间的相互关系和形成过程。为此，对《编年史文章》、匿名的《故事》和内斯特的《选集》进行了日文翻译，研究了这些作品中的平行段落，并重新审视了过去对这一主题的研究结果。在执行这项研究项目时，人们对俄罗斯编年史和中世纪以来的其他文学作品中如何报道普通人、王子或圣人的死亡产生了新的兴趣。这一问题是在俄罗斯编年史的历史形成与描述人的死亡的语言手段之间的关系的背景下进行的，同时也研究了圣经中的语录以及其他中世纪文本的作用，这些语录是构成圣徒传记文本的非常重要的元素。

This research project is to study the works belonging to the so-called Boris and Gleb cycle: 1) Chronicle Account of the year of 1015 entitled "On the Murder of Boris," 2) "The Tale (Skazanie) of SS Boris and Gleb" by the anonymous author, and 3) Nestor's "Lection (Chtenie) of the Lives of SS Boris and Gleb", from the viewpoint of the new methods such as the structural analysis of stories and text linguistics, and to make clear their mutual relationships and the process of their formations. For this purpose, Japanese translations of "Chronicle Article," the anonymous "Tale", and Nestor's "Lection" were made, the parallel passages found in these works were studied, and also the results of the past studies on the subject were reexamined.In executing this research project a new interest arose in the question of how the deaths of people, ordinary citizens, princes or saints, were reported in Russian chronicles and other literary works from the Middle Ages. This problem was studied in the context of the relation between the historical formation of Russian chronicles and the linguistic means to describe the deaths of people.Also the role of quotations from the Bible, which are very important element to form the text of hagiographies, and other mediaeval texts in general, was studied.