Author: Singapore Symposium on Premodern SoutheaJohn N. M
Publisher: Singapore University Press
Keywords: southeast, premodern, asian, earthenwares, symposium, singapore, asia, proceedings, earthenware
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-09
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 9971692716
ISBN-13: 9789971692711
This volume offers a baseline of information on what is known of earthenware across Southeast Asia and aims to provide new understandings of subjects including the origins of the prehistoric tripod vessels of the Malayan Peninsula and the role of earthenware from a kiln site in southern Thailand.
Author: Mikiso Hane
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: survey, historical, japan, premodern
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1990-11-29
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0813380650
ISBN-13: 9780813380650
This newly revised volume drawn from Professor Hane’s classic text, Japan: A Historical Survey, presents a rich account of early Japanese history for students. Important elements of early Japanese history persist in present-day Japan more tenaciously than is sometimes realized. Hane traces the key developments of Japanese history in the premodern period, including the establishment of the imperial dynasty, early influences from China and Korea, the rise of the samurai class and the establishment of feudalism, the culture and society of the long Tokugawa period, the rise of Confucianism and S
Authors:Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sexualities, premodern
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-09-24
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415912571
ISBN-13: 9780415912570
Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on reading strategies--to the historiography of sexuality.
Author: Luke Demaitre
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: whole, malady, medicine, premodern, leprosy
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2007-06-27
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801886139
ISBN-13: 9780801886133
While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg.Extending his inquiry from the first century to late in the eighteenth century, Demaitre draws on translations of academic treatises and archival records to illuminate the professional standing, knowledge
Author: Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher: Center for Reformation &
Keywords: society, youth, teenager, premodern
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 2002-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0772720185
ISBN-13: 9780772720184
Author: Mikael S. Adolphson
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: premodern, japan, warriors, courtiers, power, monks, gates
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2000-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0824823346
ISBN-13: 9780824823344
The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations--where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on courtiers--has traditionally been condemned and is poorly understood. In an impressive examination of this intriguing aspect of medieval Japan, the author employs a wide range of previously neglected sources to argue that religious protest was a symptom of political factionalism in the capital rather than its cause. It is his contention that religious violence can be traced primarily
Author: David Wallace
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: aphra, behn, chaucer, surinam, places, calais, premodern
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-08-23
List price: $121.95
ISBN-10: 1405113936
ISBN-13: 9781405113939
This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Begins with Calais – peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and ends with Surinam – traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667. Other particular locations discussed include Flanders, Somerset, Genoa, and the Fortunate Islands (Canary Islands
