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Ritual in Song Chinese Warfare, 960-1279

Marcia Butler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-94402-2 (ISBN)

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Through a detailed study of the new military treatises produced by China’s Song dynasty, part of a broader bureaucratic centralising project of the Song which involved the collection and systematic publication in encyclopedias of various "lost" texts, this book shows how important for warfare, and for Song government generally, were new rituals, not aligned to China’s traditional religions – Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism – rituals where cultural and supernatural emblems mimicked natural forces and became themselves objects for the production of power. The book thereby casts a great deal of light on the nature of the Song regime overall. Moreover, the book argues that the new rituals and associated cosmology and ideology, once disseminated widely throughout society, were one of the factors which in time led to the decline and overthrow of the Song dynasty.

Marcia Butler is an Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University, USA

1. Introduction: Tang/Song China, Continuities and Departures 2. The Song Quest for Knowledge 3. Ritual Arena, Ritual Canon 4. To Divine is Human: Ritual Practitioners 5. Contesting Territory: Oath, Prayer and Sacrifice 6. Constellations of War: Battle Array Schema 7. Hidden Time, Hidden Space: Transgressing with Occult Ritual 8. Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2017
Reihe/Serie	Asian States and Empires
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-138-94402-5 / 1138944025
ISBN-13	978-1-138-94402-2 / 9781138944022
Zustand	Neuware