Reading medieval ruins : urban life and destruction in sixteenth-century Japan
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Reading medieval ruins : urban life and destruction in sixteenth-century Japan
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Urban life and destruction in 16th-century Japan
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-236) and index
Contents of Works
- A provincial palace city as an urban space
- The material culture of urban life
- Late medieval warlords and the agglomeration of power
- The material foundations of faith
- Culture and sociability in the provinces
- Urban destruction in late medieval Japan
- Epilogue - the excavated nation on display
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Description
The Japanese provincial city of Ichijodani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations have since uncovered the most detailed late medieval urban site in the country. Drawing on analysis of specific excavated objects and decades of archaeological evidence to study daily life in Ichijodani, Reading Medieval Ruins in Sixteenth-Century Japan illuminates the city's layout, the possessions and houses of its residents, its politics and experience of war, and religious and cultural networks. Morgan Pitelka demonstrates how provincial centers could be dynamic and vibrant nodes of industrial, cultural, economic, and political entrepreneurship and sophistication. In this study a new and vital understanding of late medieval society is revealed, one in which Ichijodani played a central role in the vibrant age of Japan's sixteenth century.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1. A provincial palace city as an urban space
- 2. The material culture of urban life
- 3. Late medieval warlords and the agglomeration of power
- 4. The material foundations of faith
- 5. Culture and sociability in the provinces
- 6. Urban destruction in late medieval japan
- Epilogue: The excavated nation on display
- Bibliography
- Index.
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