Wednesday What's New in History | September 28, 2016

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Previous weeks!

This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.

ParallelPain

It didn't happen this week, I just discovered it this week. Sekigahara is getting the Nagashino treatment. That is, there's a movement among Japanese scholars to re-examine the battle and the sources used to traditionally describe it, focusing on sources closer to the event questioning later sources. Some of it I already had an inkling of doubt, but others catch my eyes like questioning the existence of meetings and decisions previously taken for granted in the months leading up to Sekigahara, the length and nature of the actual combat, and the timing of Kobayakawa's betrayal. It will be interesting to see where the dust settles.