Reading Medieval Ruins

Reading Medieval Ruins
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781009081221
ISBN-13 : 1009081225
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Book Synopsis Reading Medieval Ruins by : Morgan Pitelka

Download or read book Reading Medieval Ruins written by Morgan Pitelka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese provincial city of Ichijōdani 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 Ichijōdani, 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 Ichijôdani played a central role in the vibrant age of Japan's sixteenth century.


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