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，我们还与英国历史的韩国史学家保持了联系，并与他们一起组织了另一次研讨会。在这四年里，我们邀请了来自英国和美国的著名历史学家：安·威廉姆斯博士（《阿莱克托末日审判书》的主编，《英语与诺曼征服》的作者），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），2006年和2007年，玛丽-特蕾莎·弗拉纳根教授（中世纪爱尔兰历史专家），道维特·布朗博士（中世纪苏格兰历史专家），以及中世纪威尔士历史专家Bronagh Ni Chonaill博士。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，我还于2007年6月在新泻大学举办的日本西方历史学会年会上组织了一次同名的小型研讨会，并于2007年7月在利兹国际中世纪大会上组织了一次会议。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进行过集体研究。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，凯尔特文学专家对其进行了历史研究。只有少数历史学家加入了他们。我认为这个项目打开了新英国中世纪历史的视角，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.