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In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and their nomadic culture at the center. Written by an international team of more than forty leading scholars, this two-volume set provides an authoritative and multifaceted history of 'the Mongol Moment' (1206-1368) in world history and includes an unprecedented survey of the various sources for its study, textual (written in sisteen languages), archaeological, and visual. This groundbreaking Cambridge History sets a new standard for future study of the Empire. It will serve as the fundamental reference work for those interested in Mongol, Eurasian, and world history.

Mongols --- History --- Mongols. --- Mongolie --- Histoire.

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By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368), Genealogy and Status explores the ways the conquered Chinese people understood and represented the alien Mongol ruling principles through their own cultural tradition. This epigraphic genre, which this book collectively calls “genealogical steles,” was quite unique in the history of Chinese epigraphy. Northern Chinese officials commissioned these steles exclusively to record a family’s extensive genealogy, rather than the biography or achievements of an individual. Tomoyasu Iiyama shows how the rise of these steles demonstrates that Mongol rule fundamentally affected how northern Chinese families defined, organized, and commemorated their kinship. Because most of these inscriptions are in Classical Chinese, they appear to be part of Chinese tradition. In fact, they reflect a massive social change in Chinese society that occurred because of Mongol rule in China. The evolution of genealogical steles delineates how local elites, while thinking of themselves as the heirs of traditional Chinese culture, fully accommodated to Mongol imperial rule and became instead one of its cornerstones in eastern Eurasia. See Less

Mongols --- Nobility --- Stele (Archaeology) --- History --- Genealogy.

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"Silk fabrics in the form of wearables and soft furnishings were omnipresent in medieval Islamic society, yet their presence has not always been acknowledged within the field of art history. Complex Weaves considers the interwoven historiography of textile studies and Islamic art history through focusing on lampas fabrics produced in the Mongol (Ilkhanate, Chagatai Khanate) and Mamluk territories during the 13th and 14th centuries. Attending to these complex striped silks offers new perspectives on the production, consumption, and intended use of medieval textiles. By analysing the different weaving techniques, the Arabic inscriptions in the patterns of the striped silks as well as their representation in pictorial and written sources, Complex Weaves critically examines the technological knowledge and divisions of labour required to produce lampas fabrics. The iconography, materiality, and inscriptions of striped silks are placed in conversation with 13th century metal vessels and contextualized through the varied uses of wearable silks. From robes of honour (khil'a, tashrīf) for the Sāqī (cup-bearer) to the textile propaganda of the Abū Sa'īd silk, the incorporation of specific silks was instrumental in constructing talismanic power and political messages. Silks affected both those who wore them, and those who observed them, offering researchers insight into Islamic art history".

Islamic silk --- Mongols Antiquities --- Mamelukes Antiquities --- Silk weaving --- History

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Les Mongols sont surtout connus pour leur goût de la conquête. Dans cette première histoire complète de " la Horde ", la partie occidentale de l'Empire mongol qui a surgi après la mort de Gengis Khan en 1227, Marie Favereau montre brillamment que leurs réalisations allaient bien au-delà : pendant trois siècles, la Horde fut l'une des forces motrices du développement mondial, à l'aune de ce qu'avait été la Rome antique. Elle a laissé un profond héritage en Europe, en Russie, en Asie centrale et au Moyen-Orient. Noyau central de l'essor marchand eurasien des XIIIe et XIVe siècles, elle fut un canal vital de ces échanges sur des milliers de kilomètres. Son régime politique unique récompensait les administrateurs et les diplomates habiles et engendra un ordre économique à la fois très mobile, organisé et innovant. Depuis son campement impérial sur le cours inférieur de la Volga, elle a fourni un modèle inédit qui allait s'imposer et évoluer pour unifier sous son égide un espace divisé aujourd'hui entre le Kazakhstan, l'Ukraine, la Russie et l'Europe de l'Est. Le " peuple des steppes " y créa des institutions qui transformèrent les rapports de force entre les hiérarchies locales et stimulèrent l'essor des villes. Grâce à sa diplomatie orientée vers le commerce, son influence s'étendit le long des routes du nord bien au-delà de ses frontières. Ses khans dominèrent les princes russes et les begs turcs, résistèrent à la grande peste et s'adaptèrent à la géopolitique mouvante du XVe siècle. Les Mongols remodelèrent en profondeur l'espace slave, contribuèrent à l'épanouissement de l'Islam et forgèrent de nouvelles alliances avec les Mamelouks, les Lituaniens, les Polonais, les Italiens et les Allemands. Ils sont à l'origine de l'une des premières mondialisations. Marie Favereau dessine avec maestria une fresque d'envergure portée de bout en bout par une plume fluide et démontre que nous vivons bel et bien dans un monde hérité de la période mongole.

Civilisation --- Mongols --- Histoire. --- Histoire --- Horde d’or --- Civilization, Mongol. --- History. --- Golden Horde --- Civilization.

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"In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court debate was an arena for an ideologically and religiously charged performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators, Buddhist monks, and Christian clergy all attempted to sway their imperial overlords, arguing fiercely over the proper role of the king and his government, with momentous and far-reaching consequences. Focusing on the famous but understudied figure of the grand vizier Rashid al-Din, a Persian Jew who converted to Islam, Jonathan Z. Brack explores the myriad ways Rashid al-Din and his fellow courtiers investigated, reformulated, and transformed long-standing ideas of authority and power. Out of this intellectual ferment of accommodation, resistance, and experimentation, they developed a completely new understanding of sacred kingship. This new ideal, and the political theology it subtends, would go on to become a central justification in imperial projects across Eurasia in the centuries that followed. An Afterlife for the Khan offers a powerful cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal moment for Islam and empire in the Middle East and Asia"--

Mongols --- Islam --- Buddhists --- History --- Ilkhanid dynasty. --- Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, --- Genghis Khan, --- Influence. --- Iran