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이번 강연은 미시건대학교(University of Michigan) 아시아언어문화학부 교수이신

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Is Climate Change to Blame for the Fall of the Koryo State?

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Is Climate Change to Blame for the Fall of the Koryo State?

안준영 (University of Michigan)

Recently, historians of Korea have been looking beyond economics, politics, and culture to make sense of large-scale changes in Korean history. One notable example is the growing interest in the role that climate change or, more specifically, the so-called medieval warm period played in transforming the structures of power at the Koryo court. The alarming frequency with which the Koryo monarchs and court performed rituals for averting “natural” disasters has been interpreted as a response not to personal religious fervor but to the larger shift in the general climate, which brought about disasters such as floods, drought, epidemics, and unseasonal temperature. Although the climate change argument has its advantages, this paper will subject to this reductive reading of the rituals performed at court and also the rebellions that broke out during times of rapid climate change to critique and offer an alternative reading of the rituals and rebellions of the mid and late Koryo periods. This paper will emphasize less the impact of “nature” on humans than on (1) the impact of a growing urban center on the physical environment and, more importantly, (2) the importance of “natural” portents, rituals, and rebellions in the negotiating identity amongst the elite during the Koryo period.

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