Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History

ISBN-13: 9780367581237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 418 str.

Karl F. Friday

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Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in both sophistication and volume. The new scholarship sees a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to broader exploration of social structures, and a reexamination of many of the key tenets which were once the rec

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Introduction

Part I. Geography & the Environment

1.Geography & History and Geography in History

2. Climate & Environment in History

3: Classical Japan & the Continent

Part II. Political Events & Institutions

4. The Jōmon & Yayoi Ages

5. The Kofun era & Early State Formation

6. The Ritsuryō State

7. From Classical to Medieval? Ōchō Kokka, Kenmon Taisei & the Heian Court

8. The Court and Its Provinces: Producing and Distributing Wealth in Classical Society, 700–1200

9. Court & Countryside 1200-1600: The Articulation of Local Autonomy

10. The Imperial Court in Medieval Japan

11. The 16^th Century: Identifying a New Group of "Unifiers" & Reevaluating the Myth of "Reunification"

Part III. Society & Culture

12. Religion in Archaic Japan

13. Gender and Family in the Archaic & Classical Ages

14. Heian-kyō: from Royal Center to Metropole

15. Religion in Nara & Heian Japan

16. The Historical Demography of Japan to 1700

17. Village and Rural Life in Medieval Japan

18. Family, Women, and Gender in Medieval Society

19. Outcasts & Marginals In Medieval Japan

20. Medieval Warriors & Warfare

21. Religion in Medieval Japan

Part IV. Economy & Technology

22. Coins & Commerce in Classical Japan

23. Knowledge of Nature & Craft: Researching the History of Science, Mathematics & Technology in Japan before 1600

24. Agriculture & Food Production

25. Commerce & Towns in Medieval Japan

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Karl F. Friday is Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Saitama University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, USA.