Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Umbrellas Calvin Bledsoe’s journey begins with

Calvin Bledsoe’s journey begins with the death of his mother

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But when he served as US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2009 to 2011—working to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—diplomacy did not prevail

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Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner

Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Umbrellas Calvin Bledsoe’s journey begins withBy Vyjayanthi Selinger Associate Professor of Asian Studies The Genpei War of 1180 1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the Heike monogatari corpus through ritual that map the ideal