近十年来中古碑志研究的新动向

New Trends in the Study of Medieval Inscriptions in the Past Ten Years

碑志研究是中国中古史研究的重要课题,迄今成果丰硕。近十年来,中古碑志研究出现了一些新动向,包括碑志所记祖先谱系的发现及建构过程的探讨,碑志中"异刻"即非正常刻写的确认及历史书写研究以及超越文字记载、从视觉视角考察碑志的政治景观效应等。与传统碑志研究相比,这些展示新动向的研究更为集中的致力于检讨碑志自身,使得碑志摆脱在金石学传统下作为史传附庸的地位,由此推动碑志研究从比较单一的史料考证转向细腻周全的史学分析。不过,新动向类研究施展场合受限且自身亦存"隐忧",故不能取代传统研究。二者互为补充,方可将中古碑志研究推向更高层次。

Inscription research is an important topic in the study of the history of Medieval China,and till now it has yielded fruitful results.In the past ten years,the research on medieval inscriptions has seen some new trends beyond the traditional research,including the discovery of family genealogies in the inscriptions and the discussion of their construction process,the confirmation of deviated engravings and the study of historical writing in the inscriptions,and what’s more,the study of the political landscape of the inscriptions from a visual perspective.Compared with the traditional inscription research,these researches showing new trends are more focused on reviewing the inscription itself,changing the inscriptions’status as the vassal of historical documents under the tradition of epigraphy,and thus promoting the transition of inscription research from source analysis to historiographical analysis.Nevertheless,these researches are limited by circumstances and have their own problems.As a result,they cannot replace traditional research.The two kinds of researches should complement each other,so that the research of medieval inscriptions can be moved to a higher level.