Abstract:

This paper attempts to analyze the process by which early Catholicism in Joseon was repressed and persecuted through a primarily legal perspective. In doing so, I will try to lay out exactly how the Joseon government chose to legally handle the problem of Catholicism and seek to show how this legal treatment changed over time and reveal the reasons for this shift in law application. Here I will focus on the period between 1784 and 1801, which spans the time between the first Catholic baptism of a Korean and the major persecution campaign which occurred in 1801. While previous research has partially examined the repression and persecution of early Catholicism from a legal perspective before, this paper seeks to analyze the legal treatment of early Catholicism as a whole and cast light on its historical developments. Importantly, I will refer not only to the specific laws applied against Catholics but also incorporate the royal commands, which could exist separate from the legal code, into my analysis. In doing so, I will try to demonstrate that the importance of the king's judicial agency in treating criminal cases in Joseon was paramount. By the end, I hope to have shown precisely how and why the legal handling of Catholicism grew progressively harsher.

摘要：

本文试图通过主要的法律视角来分析朝鲜早期天主教受到压制和迫害的过程。在这样做的过程中，我将尽力阐明朝鲜政府如何选择合法地处理天主教问题，并试图说明这种法律待遇随时间而变化的原因，并揭示出这种法律适用转变的原因。在这里，我将重点介绍1784年至1801年之间的这段时间，该时间跨度是朝鲜人第一次受到天主教洗礼与1801年发生的大规模迫害运动之间的时间。而先前的研究部分地从法律角度考察了对早期天主教的压制和迫害。本文从以前的角度出发，试图从整体上分析早期天主教的法律待遇，并阐明其历史发展。重要的，我将不仅参考针对天主教徒的具体法律，还将我的分析中包含的皇家命令（可能与法律法规分开存在）纳入其中。通过这样做，我将试图证明国王司法机构在处理朝鲜的刑事案件中的重要性是至关重要的。最后，我希望能够准确地说明天主教的法律处理方式和方式越来越苛刻。