『文化柳氏嘉靖譜』(1565) 등장 관료의 친족연결망을 통해 보는 조선 전기 사림파의 사회적 배경: 기묘사림을 중심으로

Abstract

This article focuses on the Gimyo Sarim(己卯士林) and examines the status and characteristics of the Sarim group bureaucrats in the ruling class in the early Joseon Dynasty. It can be said that the Sarim, who entered the central political world, were a bureaucratic group that advocated Moral politics. In other words, as well as their Confucian ideals, their actual existence as the ruling class has also been the subject of interest. Existing studies have tried to understand the social characteristics of the Sarim by using their economic and pedigree commonality, but it turns out that it is not easy to define the Sarim as a group with a single personality. Recently, the view of ‘movement groups’ or academic networks that practice moral politics is gaining persuasive power. However, the consideration of Sarim's social background cannot be abandoned either. This study tried to examine the existence of Sarim within the ruling class by examining what kind of status Gimyo Sarim occupies in the understanding of the Munhwa Yoo clan Genealogy of GaJeong era(『文化柳氏嘉靖譜』) published in 1565 as the comprehensive genealogy of the ruling class of that time. As a result of the analysis, the key characters of the Gimyo Sarim were generally had distant and indirect blood ties and marriage links to each other. In addition, there are also Hungu(勳舊) figures with Great clan backgrounds in the Sarim, and it was they who were connected by relatively close blood ties and marriage distances to other characters and were located at the center of the blood ties and marriage networks. It is understood that the people who pursued Confucian moral politics were forming solidarity as Sarim through ‘will’ such as school ties, bureacratic ties, and the mediation of the space of Seoul on these structural conditions. Also, among the people in the Hungu background, there were people who oppressed Sarim, but there were also people who maintained the tendency of Sarim. Since Sarim was also a member of the ruling class, after the period of Literati purges(士禍) ended, the descendants of someone among these people formed a great family through paternal linage recognition and subsequent honoring for ancestor.