Europe and the End of Medieval Japan (Past Imperfect)

Hudson, Mark

Arc Humanities Press（2024/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 130 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781802701838
• DDC分類 952.02

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Chapter 1. Positioning Late Medieval Japan: An Introduction

Chapter 2. "The Best People Yet Discovered": Japan and the Counter-Reformation

Chapter 3. Violence and State-Building in the Christian Century

Chapter 4. Global Goods in the Entangled World of Late Medieval Japan

Chapter 5. Re-Thinking the Christian Century: Global Contexts, Local Afterlives

Further Reading