高麗時代與朝鮮時代初期文武的分途

Maintaining Boundaries: The Military and Civil Branches in the Koryǒ and Early Chosǒn

本文檢視高麗與朝鮮時代文人至上的傳統，以及存在於政府文武部門之間的張力。本文指出除了十世紀高麗時代、以及在高麗晚期與朝鮮初期的長時間，文武部門之間相對平等，且兩部門間的社會藩籬瓦解以外，文武部門之間的區別不只是政治性，也是社會性的。本文檢視文部門確立優勢的過程，並且提出在文部門的提升上，動態安全的實際考量與儒家思想同等重要的看法。

This article examines the tradition of civil supremacy and the tensions that existed between the civil and military branches of the government in the Koryŏ and Chosŏn periods. It notes that the distinctions between the civil and military branches were not just political, but also social, except during tenth century Koryŏ and an extended period of time in the late Koryŏ and early Chosŏn when there was relative equality between the two branches and when the social barriers between the two branches broke down. It examines the processes by which the superiority of the civil branch was established and suggests that practical considerations of dynastic security were equally as important as Confucian ideology in the elevation of the civil branch.