Seminars & Short Courses
Life of a Peasant in Medieval Japan
In this short course, we will discuss how peasants and other people ‘at the margins’ of medieval Japanese society (ca. 1000-1400) lived and organized. Large parts of society are silent in sources from that time, and we will investigate different ways that historians can bring back their voices and reconstruct their daily lives, communities, and belief systems, as well as re-assess the agency of those people who have traditionally been described merely as passive producers.