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“异教传统的重生”，这被认为是文艺复兴时代的特征。这一研究的结果表明，“异教传统的重生”是通过它与当时的基督教思想在各个学习领域的复杂结合来完成的。我们认识到，为了理解文艺复兴的整体形象，有必要研究“文艺复兴的宗教基础”，不仅在哲学思想上，而且在其他许多领域，包括文学作品、视觉艺术、政治理论等。调查人员的研究成果在我们的研究项目会议上报告（1993-94年四次），我们讨论得非常热烈，形成了对“文艺复兴的异教传统”的全面理解的基本观点。为了继续我们的研究，我们有几次机会与在其他学习领域进行研究的研究者进行讨论。为了公开我们的研究成果，我们发表了《文艺复兴研究》（1994年7月第1卷）。我们做了一个初步的调查，这样我们就可以列出日本文艺复兴研究的文献。

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.