조선후기 淸州 邑誌의 현황과 구성

Abstract

Town chronicles were geographies compiled by the local gentry or government officials in the region, and they detailed the area they lived in. Written on the scale of administrative agencies and containing a variety of information including information concerning politics and culture, town chronicles are frequently used in the research of local history. In the case of Joseon dynasty period Cheongju, 13 different town chronicles remain because Cheongju was a town that represented Chungcheong-do although some of them have been introduced only by way of bibliographical introduction or translation without general cross-checking carried out. The present study attempted to establish a basic foundation that could be used for the research of local history by collecting and analyzing existing Cheongju town chronicles. First of all, it’s difficult to know precisely when these chronicles were created because most of them lack records specifying the latest period as to when they could have been created. Nevertheless, some of their content allow approximate estimation suggesting 1 was created in the mid-17th century, 1 in the late 18th century, 3 in the mid-19th century, 3 in the late 19th century, and 5 unknown. Next, the study compared the compilation items from each town chronicle and accordingly arranged several significant characteristics in terms of their content. Specifically, as lacking as it was, the study estimated aspects of the regional economy based on household and tax-on-land figures as well as the tendencies of Hyangchon-sajok(country aristocrats) based on the party identities of the figures included.