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Bushido: the samurai code according to Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure

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For several centuries the Japanese samurai caste has passed down a set of ethical standards and military which, although they seem to date back to 660 BC, were put in writing in the form of a code only between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by Tsuramoto Tashiro, who wrote the Hakagure according to the precepts that were taught to him by the warrior monk Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

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The Marvelous in the Middle Ages: the "mirabilia" and the apparitions of the "exercitus mortuorum"

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An overview of how the Marvelous and the irrational survived the advent of Christianity in popular culture, with a particular focus on the apparitions of the dead and above all of the "furious army", the discussion of which will continue in second part of this comprehensive study

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