Morgan Pitelka

Reading Medieval Ruins (eBook, ePUB)

Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009081221
• Artikelnr.: 66177357

Autorenporträt

Morgan Pitelka is Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

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.