조선 후기 천주교 여신도들의 죽음의 의미화 방식 연구 -이루갈다의 「옥중서간」을 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper has been focused on identifying the aspects of Roma Catholic’s religious martyrdom showed in the latter part of Chosun. Here the main intention of the study was to find out the ways of signifying the death showed in Lee Rugalda’s letters. From now on, many investigator has been focused on Lee’s lifetime, in this paper I would take a central place in her text Okjoongseogan. On chapter 2, the paper intended to find out the narrative mechanism of Okjoongseogan. In conclusion, I found that Okjoongseogan is an organized narrative is equipped with ‘beginning – development – crisis – peak - end’, especially the narrative of overcoming the difficulty. She signified overcoming of her physical desire as a trial and her lifetime as a eschatological narrative. On chapter 3, the paper intended to find out the social function and meaning of female Roma Catholic’s religious martyrdom. Confucian rules acknowledged female Roma Catholic’s fault, as a result, they admitted female Roma Catholic as subjects. ‘Women cannot be punished but female Roma Catholic is exceptional.’ This rule made it clear that only Roma Catholic women can be admitted as subjects. In a conclusion, this paper found out that "virginity hardship" is a right to do religious martyrdom, and in the latter part of Chosun, the female Roma Catholic represent collapse of Confucian order and at the same time formation of new symbolic order.