1st Edition
Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange
1. Felt, Leather, Silk, and Gold: On the Origins of Mongol Court Dress
2. Robing at Khubilai’s Court
3. "Pulling firmly her tall hat over her head:" Women’s Dress at the Yuan Court
4. Mongol Dress in West Asia
5. Global Reach: The Mongols and The Latin West
Conclusion: The Mongol Legacy
Biography
Eiren L. Shea is Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Grinnell College.
"[Shea] concludes with an account of the impact of the importation of panni Tartarici (Tartar cloths) to Venice and other Italian city-states, and the representation of Mongol elites found in thirteenth-century Italian images. Far from seeing these as a kind of European proto-colonial discovery of the Asian other, Shea frames these images as evidence for Mongol influence on the cultures of the Mediterranean world, an important account that is often absent from the art history of the period."
--CAA Reviews
