조선후기 율과입격자의 친족 네트워크과 결속

Abstract

This paper reviewed the network of relatives of successful appli- cants of Yulgwa(律科) in the late Joseon Dynasty to determine that they had strong solidarity through hereditary succession and marriage. Until now, Yulgwan(律官) have been understood to be lax in solidarity compared to other professional middlemen(中人). This is due to the poor record of kinship information in the "The list of Yulgwa(律科榜 目)." I added the successful applicants of Yulgwa(律科)'s kinship in- formation to carefully identify their kinship network. As a result, it was confirmed that they, like other professional middlemen(中人), were bound together by a strong network of relatives. On the other hand, I differed from the previous research and per- spective that I understood that their loose solidarity was lower in the treatment and status of professional middlemen(中人) than that of ar- istocratic bureaucrats(士大夫). professional middlemen(中人), based on their expertise in books that aristocratic bureaucrats(士大夫) cannot do, have advantages in interpreting the law, and as a result, they need to be identified as being decisive in law enforcement, not as an assistant to the law. They were the ones who monopolized the law with their expertise as weapons while maintaining a strong network of relatives.