Many works have been written on the early Korean Catholic Church, but little has been said concerning the legal angle of the repression conducted by the Chosŏn state. Each anti-Christian campaign had a legal basis and was officially implemented in the frame of the legal system supported by the Great Ming Code, which was the penal code in use during the Chosŏn dynasty. The present study thus suggests that legal history may provide a suitable framework for the analysis of the anti-Christian campaigns of the nineteenth century and complement existing literature. I begin with investigating which laws were referred to during Catholic-related judicial cases and, then, I propose a few elements in order to explain why the government put such an emphasis on immediate decapitation, which was the gravest legal punishment. I also analyze how government officials enforced and misused the penal code to reach their objectives, and I conclude that laws, in the end, constituted an ideal means to justify the repression of Catholicism.
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ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION THE CHOSON STATE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LAW PENAL LAWS AND CATHOLICISM The Chinsan incident: a strange precedent The progressive emergence of an anti-Christian legislation The state crisis, 1866-1871 DECODING EXECUTIONS Factional struggles and Catholicism Decapitation in Choson legal culture Choson literati and their views of Catholicism in East Asia USE AND ABUSE OF THE GREAT MING CODE Fear and apostasy Abuse of the Code and arbitrary executions CONCLUSION REFERENCES
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Great Ming CodeCatholicismlate Chosŏn dynastyrepressiondeath penaltyapostasymartyrdom
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PIERRE-EMMANUEL ROUX [ École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), France. ]
한국연구원은 1970년 5월 한국 민속의 각 분야에 걸친 자료의 수집과 학술적 연구를 목적으로 '한국민속연구소'로 출발하였다. 그 후 1973년 5월 연구 분야를 확대하며 민속뿐만 아니라 한국학 전반에 걸친 연구를 위해 '한국학연구소'로 개편하였고, 다시 1989년 3월 한국의 국제적 위상의 부상과 함께 한국학 연구의 중요성이 높아짐에 따라 '한국학연구원'으로 확대, 개편하였다. 한국학연구원은 한국학 전반에 걸친 연구를 통해 지역과 민족문화 발전에 기여하며 한국학의 세계화를 위해서 학술활동을 강화하고 나아가 내·외국인에 대한 한국문화 교육을 담당하고자 한다.