『高麗史』 「辛禑傳」의 편찬방식과 자료적 성격

초록

People of the Joseon dynasty recorded King Woo(禑王) not in the Benji(Basic Annals, 本紀) of Goryeosa(History of Goryeo, 高麗史), but in the biographies(列傳), suggesting that he was not a son of King Gongmin(恭愍王), but a son of Shindon(辛旽) the traitor, so he took the throne illegally. In other words, they made it clear that they downgraded the reign of King Woo(禑王) through recording it not in the Benji(本紀), but in the biographies under the cause of defeating the traitor. Therefore, the very existence of ‘Shinwoojeon[辛禑傳]’ was an example of how the people of the Joseon dynasty interpreted the history of the Goryeo dynasty by their own interests. However, no one has ever tried to take an analysis of the contents and structure of ‘Shinwoojeon[辛禑傳]’ Therefore, this study aimed at learning the characteristics and values of ‘Shinwoojeon[辛禑傳]’ as the historical material and reviewing the historical values of Goryeosa(高麗史), as a chronicle by studying the printing methods in-depth and comparing the styles of the Benji(本紀) and the biographies. The results of our study are as follows. The producers of ‘Shinwoojeon’ made every endeavor to maximize the visual and immediate effects of the biography by using various techniques like using the name of King Woo directly in the biography, not using any classification method on the record of King Woo, and not using the date of the record as much as possible. On the other hand, they devised various and detailed ways of making the biographies like not using the obituary(卒記), using compressed sentences, selecting and placing words, and which made ‘Shinwoojeon’ more perfect as a biography than its model, ‘Wangmang-jeon’(the biography of Wangmang, 王莽傳). However, with its the structure of the biography, ‘Shinwoojeon[辛禑傳]’ still has elements of the Benji(本紀) such as the records of natural disasters and obituary(卒記), using succinct style of writing, arrangement of articles by time, and detailed information, making it an usual kind of record.

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