Byzantines as the Others : the image of Byzantium in the contemporaries mind

作为他者的拜占庭人:当代人心中的拜占庭形象

基本信息

批准号：
15520446
负责人：
NEZU Yukio
金额：
$ 2.24万
依托单位：
Kanazawa University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2003 至 2005
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15520446/
关键词：
Byzantium Constantinople Medieval France 十字軍

项目摘要

In this study, I tried to illuminate the process of deformation of the image of the Byzantium in the mind of Western European people through analyzing the vision of Byzantium in literary works. In this case, following 2 works were picked up for my research. Firstly, as to Chretien de Troyes's Cliges, I would like to state the following conclusion. The hero, Cliges, was friendly drawn as long as he accepted the sense of value of Western Europe, and admitted the precedence of Western Europe. And it was the empress came from Western Europe that took the real leadership. We can confirm the view of Western Europe that the West excelling in reason would guide and leads in a correct direction the inferior East in morality. Secondly, I took up Gautier d'Arras's Eracle as the next analysis object and tried to extract the view of the Medieval French people on Byzantium. This is the roman adapting Herakleios, the Byzantine emperor in 7^<th> Century, as a model and took inspiration from his deed, the Persian expedition and the recover of the True Cross but the content of the story was considerably deviated from the historical fact. The author drew out one hero's life by collecting stories and legends, most of them issued from Orient, and then skillfully joining them like the patchwork. As the result of a series of creation, the author created the story that the emperor from the West would save the empire of the East. This story seems so convenient for Western people. At this point, egocentric naivety of people in Western Europe at that time was confirmed also. They did never doubt their justice and obediently believed that the expansion of their rule would save the world.

在本研究中，我试图通过分析文学作品中的拜占庭愿景来阐明西欧人心中拜占庭形象的变形过程。在这种情况下，我挑选了以下两部作品进行研究。首先，对于克雷蒂安·德·特鲁瓦的《Cliges》，我想声明如下结论。主人公克利格斯只要接受西欧的价值观，承认西欧的优先性，就被友好地画出来了。而真正掌握领导权的是来自西欧的女皇。我们可以证实西欧的观点，即理性优秀的西方会引导道德较差的东方走向正确的方向。其次，我以戈蒂埃·达拉斯的《埃拉克勒》为下一个分析对象，试图提炼出中世纪法国人对拜占庭的看法。这是一部以七世纪拜占庭皇帝赫拉克利奥斯为原型改编的罗马小说，其灵感来源于他的事迹、远征波斯和寻回真十字架，但故事内容却与历史有很大偏差。事实。作者通过收集大多来自东方的故事和传说，然后像拼凑一样巧妙地将它们连接起来，勾勒出一位英雄的一生。作为一系列创作的结果，作者创造了西方皇帝拯救东方帝国的故事。这个故事对于西方人来说似乎很方便。这一点，也证实了当时西欧人们以自我为中心的天真。他们从不怀疑自己的正义，并且顺从地相信，扩张自己的统治将拯救世界。