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Feudal Society, Volume 2

10 best books like Feudal Society, Volume 2 (Marc Bloch): 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, The Tale of Genji, The Travels, Iron and Silk, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan, The Tale of the Heike, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
AuthorElif Shafak
ISBN0241293863
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were...
The Tale of Genji
AuthorMurasaki Shikibu
A princess likes stories. One of her ladies-in-waiting is good at making them up. Over years, the lady spins a long, elaborate story containing the princess's favorite theme: hot dudes nailing chicks. Crucially, the lady writes it down and here we are with history's first novel, the origin story of...
The Travels
AuthorMarco Polo
ISBN0140440577
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which...
Iron and Silk
AuthorMark Salzman
ISBN0394755111
Salzman is a sweet guy, there's no doubt about it. his tales of his time in china are direct, cleanly written, and rooted in a clear love of the world around him and the people in it. he manages to effortlessly sidestep any potential landmines in terms of race, culture, or class simply by being himself - a...
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
AuthorShiri Eisner
ISBN1580054749
Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike.

Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics—from the issues surrounding biphobia/monosexism,...
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
AuthorMichitsuna no Haha
ISBN0804811237
Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.

This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades...
The Tale of the Heike
AuthorAnonymous
If you like reading about brave and honorable warriors in a strange faraway land, you might like this -- just as you'd like some fantasies, even though these stories are based on historical facts.

This is the Japanese version of Homer. We don't really know the original author, but we know the...
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
AuthorIvan Morris
ISBN1568360290
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris's widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious, inbred, melancholy world of ancient Japan, has been a standard in cultural studies for nearly thirty years. Using as a frame of reference The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan's Heian...
The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined
AuthorGeorges Duby
ISBN0226167720
In The Three Orders, prominent Annales historian Georges Duby offers a tripartite construct of medieval French society, a construct which depicts men separating themselves hierarchically into those who pray, those who fight, and those who work. He considers how this medieval theory of orders originated,...
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
AuthorBryan Ward-Perkins
ISBN0192807285
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?

In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian...
The Summer of Dead Birds
AuthorAli Liebegott
ISBN1936932504
My essay for the Poetry Foundation:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/arti...

The writer Jean Rhys, a great miner of autobiographical ore, once said, “The things you remember have no form. When you write about them, you have to give them a beginning, a middle, and an end. To give...
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