How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan 's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval ord er and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berr y investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time. Using diaries and urban records (extensively quoted in the text), Berry exp lores the violence of war, misrule, private justice, outlawry, and popular uprising. She also examines the structures of order, old and new, that abat ed chaos and abetted social transformation. The wartime culture of Kyoto com... View More...
