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Daily Life In A Medieval City on October 25, 2022

Date: Oct. 25, 2022

Time: 9a.m. - 11 a.m

Please join us at the lecture on zoom by a prominent scholar in East Asian history, Professor Morgan Pitelka on what daily life was like in a medieval city in Japan. In this talk, professor Pitekla will highlight how provincial centers could be dynamic and vibrant nodes of industrial, cultural, economic, and political entrepreneurship and sophistication. In this lecture a new and vital understanding of late medieval society is revealed, one in which Ichijôdani played a central role in the vibrant age of Japan's sixteenth century.

Professor Morgan Pitelka is a Bernard L. Herman distingusted professor at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His latest publications includes "Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan," and "Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Correspondence of Warloards, tea, Masters, Zen Priests and Aristocrats."

Original source can be found here.

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