Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan 9780824875466

Sacred Sisters: Gender, Sanctity, and Power in Medieval Ireland 9789048542994

This book focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Ít

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Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan 9780824841911

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Lordship and inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Sōryō system 9780804715409

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The Power In the Land 0876634242

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The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920: Aristocratic Decline, Estate Management and Land Reform 9780748642670

From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in wes

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Land Reform in Japan 9781472553492

The land reform carried out in Japan during the period of American Occupation is often spoken of as one of the most succ

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The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan [Course Book ed.] 9781400862719

In this reevaluation of the estate system, which has long been recognized as the central economic institution of medieva

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The Sacred and the Sinister : Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic [1 ed.] 9780271084398, 9780271082400

Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinisterexplores the ambiguities that mad

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The Power In The Land [2 ed.] 0856835420, 9780856835421

Fred Harrison’s thesis is that land speculation is the major cause of depressions. He shows how the land market function

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Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan 0674970527, 9780674970526

Movements--of people and groups, through travel, migration, exile, and diaspora--are central to understanding both local

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