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The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society

Pierre François Souyri

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Paper, 336 pages, 8 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-11843-9
$27.00 / £18.50

September, 2001
Cloth, 336 pages, 8 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-11842-2
$85.00 / £58.50

Chronology of Japanese History with Emphasis on the Middle Ages

1. The Curtain Rises

2. Social Dynamics in the Late Heian Period

3. The Crisis in the Late Twelfth Century

War

4. Kamakura: The Warrior Regime

5. Kamakura: A Society of Questions

6. Kamakura: A Society in Transformation

7. The Second Middle Ages: The Turning Point of the Fourteenth Century

8. Warriors, Pirates, Peasants, and Priests

9. The Splendor and Misery of the Muromachi Century: The Culmination of the Ashikaga and the Development of Trade

10. The Splendor and Misery of the Muromachi Century: New Uprisings, New Culture

11. The Sengoku Period: Communes, Religious Leagues, and Neighborhood Associations

12. The Sengoku Period: Warlords Seeking Power

Glossary of Japanese Words and Names

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About the Author

Pierre F. Souyri is Directeur des Études at the École Français d'Extrême-Orient.Käthe Roth is coeditor of Judaism: Myth, Legend, History, and Custom, from the Religious to the Secular.

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