{"product_id":"the-origins-of-japans-medieval-world-courtiers-clerics-warriors-and-peasants-in-the-fourteenth-century-9780804728942","title":"The Origins of Japans Medieval World Courtiers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis pioneering collection of 15 essays argues that Japan's medieval age began in the 14th century rather than the 12th, and marks the beginning of a fundamentally new debate about how Japan's lengthy classical period finally ended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A good selection of the latest scholarship by European, North American, and Japanese researchers. . . . An appealing aspect of the work is its multidisciplinary scope: essays on political history dominate, but the inclusion of several on religion, women, peasants, and literature add considerably to our understanding of the fouteenth century.\" -- \u003ci\u003eMonumenta Nipponica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The work is a valuable tool for the speacialist, for it provides information about a period woefully under-represented by English works. . . . \u003ci\u003eOrigins\u003c\/i\u003e is to be commended for presenting a reevaluation of the relationship between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, a process that in-and-of itself aids in understanding the complexity that was fourteenth centufy Japan.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Any specialist in Japanese history or culture should read this book. . . . All of the essays deserve serious attention.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Japanese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Together, the essays provide a rich and varied perspective on the fourteenth century.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: 1. Of hierarchy and authority at the end of Kamakura Jeffrey P. Mass; 2. Largesse and the limits of loyalty in the fourteenth century Thomas Conlan; 3. The Kikuchi and their enemies in the 1330s Seno Seiichiro; 4. Bakufu and Shugo under the early Ashikaga Thomas Nelson; 5. Peasants, elites and villages in the fourteenth century Kristina Kade Troost; Part II: 6. Visions of an emperor Andrew Goble; 7. Re-envisioning women in the post-Kamakura age Hitomi Tonomura; 8. Warrior control over the imperial anthology Robert N. Huey; 9. Cultural life of the warrior elite in the fourteenth century H. Paul Varley; 10. The warrior as ideal for a new age G. Cameron Hurst III; Part III: 11. Enraykuji - an old power in a new era Mikael Adolphson; 12. Muso Soseki Martin Collcutt; 13. Kokan Shiren and the sectarian uses of history Carl Bielefeldt; Part IV: 14. Ashikaga Takauji and the fourteenth-century dynastic schism in early Tokugawa thought I. J. McMullen; 15. The fourteenth century in twentieth-century perspective Oyama Kyohei; Notes; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405514056023,"sku":"9780804728942","price":89.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804728942.jpg?v=1730492477","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-origins-of-japans-medieval-world-courtiers-clerics-warriors-and-peasants-in-the-fourteenth-century-9780804728942","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}