Japan’s transition from medieval to early modern occurred at the time of an emerging global Europe. In the 1540s European traders and missionaries began a century of dynamic cultural and economic interaction with the Japanese Islands. In the midst of civil war, over 300,000 Japanese converted to Christianity and Japan became an influential location in the Counter-Reformation’s reinvention of Christianity as the first global religion. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, unification of Japan by the Tokugawa shoguns led to persecutions and strict limits on European presence in the country. Examining a range of topics, including the relationship between Christianity and folk religion, the introduction of firearms, new crops and cuisines, and treponemal disease, this book re-evaluates Japan’s transformation from medieval to early modern in a global context.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2024
Copyrightjahr
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-80270-183-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-297-2
ePub ISBN
9781802702989
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Past Imperfect
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
130
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Preface Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 2
Chapter 1 - Positioning Late Medieval Japan: An Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 3 - 16
Chapter 2 - “The Best People Yet Discovered”: Japan and the Counter-Reformation Kein Zugriff Seiten 17 - 40
Chapter 3 - Violence and State-Building in the Christian Century Kein Zugriff Seiten 41 - 70
Chapter 4 - Global Goods in the Entangled World of Late Medieval Japan Kein Zugriff Seiten 71 - 102
Chapter 5 - Re-Thinking the Christian Century: Global Contexts, Local Afterlives Kein Zugriff Seiten 103 - 116
