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For over three hundred years during the Heian period (794–1185), execution was customarily abolished in favor of banishm
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As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the p
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Written Chinese served as a prestigious, cosmopolitan script across medieval East Asia, from as far west as the Tarim Ba
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Banishment to Xinjiang ranked second in severity only to death in Qing law. Initiated immediately upon the addition of t
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Movements--of people and groups, through travel, migration, exile, and diaspora--are central to understanding both local
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This open access book analyses the practice of banishment and what it can tell us about the values of late medieval soci
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Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly r
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In this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the sta
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The Ōjōyōshū, written by the monk Genshin (942–1017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese reli
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Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equali
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