
Reading Medieval Ruins
Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan
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About this book
The Japanese provincial city of Ichij?dani 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 Ichij?dani, 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- 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