A Mongol Princess Making hajj: The Biography of El Qutlugh Daughter of Abagha...
his study examines in detail the biographical entry of an Ilkhanid (the Mongol state centred in Iran) princess, El Qutlugh Khatun daughter of Abagha Ilkhan (r. 1265–82), in the biographical...
View ArticleA First Escape from Poverty in Late Medieval Japan: Evidence from Real Wages...
This paper offers a first investigation of long-term trends in Japanese living standards from the mid-14th to the mid-19th century using urban daily wages and price data for a number of basic...
View ArticleChingiz Khan: Maker of the Islamic World
For centuries Chingiz Khān has been a symbol of barbaric mayhem and murderous plunder, and the unifier of the Turco-Mongol Eurasian tribes has been presented as the archetypal embodiment of evil, a...
View ArticleHow Well Do You Know Genghis Khan?
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View ArticleThe Mongol Empire: The State of the Research
The study of the Mongol Empire has made enormous strides in the past two decades, and its most notable impact is the shift of seeing the Empire not only in national or regional terms but from a...
View ArticleMillions of people are descended from Genghis Khan and 10 other Asian...
Geneticists from the University of Leicester have discovered that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders who lived up to 4,000 years ago - including Mongolian...
View Article13th-century Mongol sabre discovered in Russia
While Russian archaeologists were conducting a routine examination of an old sabre unearthed seven years ago in Yaroslavl, they discovered that the weapon dates back to the 13th century, making it to...
View ArticleGenoa: The cog in the new medieval economy
Journalist and author Nicholas Walton writes about medieval Genoa's economy, trade and role in the Black Death. Walton recently published a book on Genoese history entitled, "Genoa: La Superba" The...
View Article‘Spurred on by the Fear of Death’: Refugees and Displaced Populations during...
Sensitized by the grim headlines which daily announce the appalling plight of twentieth-century refugees in eastern Europe, I was motivated to investigate the behavior and conditions of medieval...
View ArticleThe last rex crucesignatus, Edward I and the Mongol alliance
This study explores the crusading efforts of Edward I, King of England (1272– 1307), in the last decades of the thirteenth century. The post The last rex crucesignatus, Edward I and the Mongol alliance...
View ArticleHeirs of Genghis Khan
It all begin in the year 1190 when Genghis Khan managed to bring together the different nomadic tribes of Mongolia in a single, powerful army of 200,000 men. The post Heirs of Genghis Khan appeared...
View ArticleGenghis Khan: Barbarian Conqueror or Harbinger of Democracy
The world has generally viewed Genghis Khan as a barbaric conqueror whose troops raped and murdered hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people and pillaged and often destroyed villages, towns,...
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Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in...
The Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe, and especially its sudden withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE, has generated much speculation and an array of controversial theories. None of them, however,...
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Genghis Khan’s Womenfolk: How Imperial Women Shaped the Mongol Conquests and...
In this lecture, Professor Broadbridge will present three key moments from Mongol history to illustrate the way that imperial women's contributions have dramatically changed Mongol history as we know it.
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The Mongol Invasion of Croatia and Serbia in 1242
The Mongol invasion of Croatia and Serbia constitutes a single, albeit extremely interesting, episode in the great western campaign of 1236-1242, so meticulously planned and executed by the armies of...
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Birds of the Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire the world has ever known, had, among other things, a goodly number of falconers, poultry raisers, birdcatchers, cooks, and other experts on various...
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The Shadow of Chinggis Khan on Istanbul: The Ottoman Empire in the Early...
Prof. Ali Yaycioğlu examines the making of the Ottoman State and socio-economic formation between the late 14th to the 17th centuries.
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Encounters Among Enemies: Preliminary Remarks on Captives in Mongol Eurasia
While the collective experience of Mongol prisoners is one of agony and desperation, not all captives suffered such a grim fate.
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Marrying the Mongol Khans: Byzantine Imperial Women and the Diplomacy of...
Marrying the Mongol Khans: Byzantine Imperial Women and the Diplomacy of Religious Conversion in the 13th and 14th Centuries By AnnaLinden Weller Scandanavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek...
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The Ilkhanid Mongols, the Christian Armenians, and the Islamic Mamluks: a...
This work seeks to fill a gap in the academic literature concerning the study of the Ilkhanid Mongols of the Middle East during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE using Armenian, Persian,...
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