Karl F. Friday

Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan

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Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates nearly twenty years of on-going research and draws on both new readings of primary sources and the most recent secondary scholarship. It overturns many of the stereotypes that have dominated views of the period. Friday analyzes Heian -, Kamakura- and Nambokucho-period warfare from five thematic angles. He examines the principles that justified armed conflict, the mechanisms used to raise and deploy armed forces, the weapons available to early medieval warriors, the me… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-415-32963-7
EAN: 9780415329637
Produktnummer: 20228893
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 470 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 470

Über den Autor

Karl F. Friday is a professor of Japanese History at the University of Georgia. A specialist in classical and early medieval Japanese history, he has also written widely on samurai culture and Japanese warrior traditions.