The Myth of "Antemurale Christianitatis" and the Image of Europe.

“基督徒祖先”神话对波兰人的自我形象以及他们心目中的“东方”--亚洲形象的塑造起了重要作用。我一直在追溯它的过程，不仅通过检查大多数迄今为止现有的科学文献的主题，但也分析了原始文本。到目前为止，研究已经成功地涵盖了从莱格尼察战役到巴托里征服波洛克和普斯科夫的历史。其结果附于此作为一个标题下的文章：“的话语antemurale和Kochanowski”。巴洛克时期的材料非常丰富，因此将在下一篇论文中加以论述。我发表了另一篇论文，题为“继续撰写波兰语言文学的'民族'”（岩波小座文学，t.13，东京2003）。该报告也随函附上。

The myth of "Antemurale Christianitatis" had played a significant role in shaping Poles' self image as well as images of Asia, "The East" in their eyes. I have been tracing back its process not only through examining most of the hitherto existing scientific literature on the topic, but also analyzing the original texts. So far the research has successfully covered the history from the Battle of Legnica up to Batory's conquest of Polock and Pskow. The result is hereto attached as an article under the title: "The discourse of antemurale and the rhetoric-up to Kochanowski". The baroque period is so abundant in material that it would be treated in the next paper. I published another paper entitled "The ‘Nation', who continues writing the Polish language literature" (Iwanami Koza Bungaku, t.13, Tokyo 2003). It is also attached herewith.