PEACE AND CONFLICTS IN LATE MEDIEVAL JAPAN AND EUROPE

This dissertation elaborates on a comparative analysis of late medieval local realities, between some Japanese and European cases, regarding local conflicts in the 14th and 15th centuries. Research objects are Yano-no-shō, a Japanese shōen in Harima, and western Alpine territories between the Ossola valley and Valais. A particular attention is placed on the local élites' active involvement in local conflicts, in the political action in which people of various origine encountered, and in the dynamics of the development of local political culture.This situation offered articulated logics of peace, as a base of legitimization of their actions in the middle of intense conflictuality.