Ethan Isaac Segal highlights the role of peripheral elites- including merchants, warriors, rural estate managers, and religious leaders- in the development of the medieval Japanese economy. Individuals from these groups devised new ways to circumvent older forms of exchange by i…
Ethan Isaac Segal highlights the role of peripheral elites- including merchants, warriors, rural estate managers, and religious leaders- in the development of the medieval Japanese economy. Individuals from these groups devised new ways to circumvent older forms of exchange by i…
Ethan Isaac Segal highlights the role of peripheral elites- including merchants, warriors, rural estate managers, and religious leaders- in the development of the medieval Japanese economy. Individuals from these groups devised new ways to circumvent older forms of exchange by i…
These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to early modern (Kinsei) society. During this time, regional lords (daimyo) first battled for local autonomy and then for national supremacy. Originally published in …
Nuns -- Hibiya Monica (c. 1549-c. 1577): virgem of Sakai -- Naito Julia (c. 1566-28 March 1627): superiora -- The Beatas of Manila (1615-56): visionaries -- Witches -- Otomo-Nata Jezebel (d. 15 February 1587) -- Priestess of hachiman -- Marriage and divorce in Catholic Japan: --…
