고려시대 ‘아무개 하(下) 무반직’ 구문의 의미와 영(領) 운영

Abstract

This paper is a brief report of pursuing a short phrase of “[Person’s Name]+下(under)+[Military Position]” which is observed in several Goryeo epitaphs commemorating individual military officials and the transcripts from the fourteenth century such as the Transcript of the careers of Jeong In Kyung (鄭仁卿定案).BR Analysing and comparing the samples from the various contexts it is highly considered that this phrase is a shortened form of a longer phrase of “[Name of] 衛(Force)+[Name of] 領(Corps)+General [Person’s Name]+下+[Military Position]” which shows the affiliation of the military post holder. The personnel transfers among the lower rank military posts from a soldier to senior colonel (中郎將, rank 5) were stated in this certain phrase especially in the transcript of careers. This possibly means that the general, who had been assigned in each individual corps from as early as the eleventh century, was actually in charge of the corps not only in the military operation but in the personnel management throughout the dynasty. It is also an interesting point that the name of each general appears in the form of two syllables only. Those two syllables might be either the given names without their family names or a composition of the family name and the single syllable name.BR The shortened phrase also could be found in the Transcript of wage statement (祿牌) in the fourteenth century. With this sample we can see that this “[Person’s Name]+下+[Military Position]” phrase functioned as an official form showing the affiliation of individual military officers not only in the circle of military division but also in the whole bureaucratic community of the Goryeo dynasty.