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Cookie akzeptierenJudith Fröhlich
Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan
- Peter Lang
- 2007
- Gebunden
- 226 Seiten
- ISBN 9783039111947
This book provides new insights into the creation and use of written texts in medieval Japan. Drawing upon lawsuits from Ategawa no sho in central Japan between the early eleventh and early fourteenth centuries, the author analyses the use of writing by various social groups - temple priests, warriors and peasants. Though these social groups had different levels of literacy and accordingly followed different communicative traditions, their use of writing had common features. In the semi-literate society of medieval Japan the dissemination and reception of written texts took place primarily through speaking and hearing. Documents of the medieval period therefore had a distinctly oral characteristic. Priests,
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