What is feudalism? It’s a surprisingly hard question to answer, and one that raises an interesting follow up. Here on the podcast I’ve been describing medieval Japan as a “feudal state” for a long time, but should I even be doing that?
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Friday, Karl, ed. Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850.
Duus, Peter. Feudalism in Japan
Brown, Elizabeth A.R. “The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe.” The American Historical Review 74, No 4 (Oct, 1974)
Abels, Richard. “The Historiography of A Construct: Feudalism and the Medieval Historian.” From the Public Medievalist.
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