Author: Mass, Jeffrey P.; editor:
Title: The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century.
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xviii, 504 pp, Rear flyleaf rumpled.. Textual map. Minor rubbing, light page edge soil, small spot on cover, VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: J.P. Mass "Of Hierarchy and Authority at the End of Kamakuta"; T. Conlan "Largesse and the Limits of Loyalty in the Fourteenth Century"; S. Seiichirô "The Kikuchi and Their Enemies in the 1330s"; T. Nelson "Bakufu and Shugo under the Early Ashikaga"; K.K. Troost " Peasants, Elites, and Villages in the Fourteenth Century"; A. Goble " Visions of an Emperor"; H. Tonomura "Re-envisioning Women in the Post- Kamakura Age"; R.N. Huey "Warrior Control over the Imperial Anthology"; H. P. Varley "Cultural Life of the Warrior Elite in the Fourteenth Century"; G.C. Hurst III "The Warrior as Ideal for a New Age"; M. Adolphson " Enryakuji - An Old Power in a New Era"; M.Collcutt "Musö Soseki"; C. Bielefeldt "Kokan Shiren and the Sectarian Uses of History"; I.J. McMullen "Ashikaga, Takauji and the Fourteenth-Century Dynastic Schism in Early Tokugawa Thought"; Ô. Kyôhei "The Fourteenth Century in Twentieth-Century Perspective".

Keywords: Japanese Medieval History, Japan Courtiers, Historiography, East Asia, Historical, Kamakura Period, Sociology, Fourteenth Century, Northern Courts