The Possibility and Perspective p of British medieval history

从2004年到2007年，我们组织了四次关于中世纪英国民族的研讨会，以及一次关于日本和英国中世纪文献比较研究的研讨会。此外，我们有机会与韩国历史学家保持联系，了解英国历史，并与他们组织了另一次研讨会。在这四年中，我们邀请了来自英国和美国的主要历史学家：安威廉姆斯博士（《末日审判书》主编，《英语与诺曼征服》作者），大卫罗菲博士（他的两本关于末日审判书的著名著作开辟了研究的新视野），威廉·艾尔德博士（北方人的专家），艾米丽阿尔布教授（诺曼人的专家）在2006年和2007年，玛丽-泰蕾兹·弗拉纳根教授（中世纪爱尔兰历史专家）、多维特·布朗博士（中世纪苏格兰历史专家）和布罗纳·尼·乔内尔博士（中世纪威尔士历史专家）。我们发表了几篇关于我们课题的论文。特别是，“中世纪英国的民族方面”（Siyousi Kenkyu，2007）是我们研究的精髓。此外，我还在6月于新新泻大学举行的日本西方史学会年会上组织了一次关于同一主题的小型研讨会，并在7月于利兹国际中世纪大会上组织了一次会议。2007.直到我们的研究开始之前，日本还没有对英国、威尔士、苏格兰和爱尔兰历史学家的合作研究。人们认为威尔士、苏格兰和爱尔兰的历史可能属于所谓的凯尔特世界，凯尔特文学专家对它进行了历史研究。只有少数历史学家加入了他们。我相信这个项目打开了新的英国中世纪历史的视角，并展示了它在未来的可能性。

From 2004 to 2007, we organized four symposia concerning the nations in medieval Britain, and the one for comparative study of medieval documents in Japan and England. In addition we had a chance of keeping contact with Korean historians for British history and organized the other symposium with them. During these four years, we invited leading historians from Britain and the USA: Dr Ann Williams (editor in chief of Alecto Domesday Book and the author of English and the Norman Conquest), Dr David Roffe (his two famous books concerning Domesday Book had opened a new horizon of research), Dr William Aird (a specialist for the Northerners), Professor Emily Albu (a specialist for the Normans) in 2006 and in 2007, Professor Marie-Therese Flanagan (a specialist for medieval Irish history), Dr Dauvit Broun (a specialist for medieval Scottish history), and Dr Bronagh Ni Chonaill, ( (a specialist for medieval Welsh history). We published several papers concerning our subject. In particular, 'the aspect of nations in medieval Britain (Siyousi Kenkyu, 2007) is an essence of our research. Moreover I organized a mini-symposium on the same title in the annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Occidental History at Niigata University in June and a session in Leeds International Medieval Congress in July. 2007. It was until our research started that there had been no corporative study of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish historians in Japan. It was believed that Welsh, Scottish and Irish histories could belong to a so-called Celtic world and historical researches into it have been carried out by specialists for Celtic literature. There were only a few historians who joined them. I believe that this project opened the perspective into new British medieval history and showed its possibility in the future.