1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe
The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe offers a comprehensive overview of the Mongols’ military, political, socio-economic and cultural relations with Central and Eastern European nations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, and one which contributed to the establishment of political, commercial and cultural contacts between all Eurasian regions. The Golden Horde, founded in Eastern Europe by Chinggis Khan’s grandson, Batu, in the thirteenth century, was the dominant power in the region. For two hundred years, all of the countries and peoples of Central and Eastern Europe had to reckon with a powerful centralized state with enormous military potential. Some chose to submit to the Mongols whilst others defended their independence, but none could avoid the influence of this powerful empire. In this book, twenty-five chapters examine this crucial period in Central-Eastern European history, including trade, confrontation, and cultural and religious exchange between the Mongols and their neighbours.
This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of the Mongols, as well those interested in the political, social and economic history of medieval Central-Eastern Europe.
Introduction: From the Great Western Campaign to the Decline of the Golden Horde: New Tendencies in the Study of the Mongol Factor in the History of Central-Eastern Europe
Alexander V. Maiorov and Roman Hautala
Part I: Before and after the Great Western Campaign
1. Omens of the Apocalypse: The First Rus’ Encounter with the Mongols through the Prism of the Medieval Mind
Fedor N. Veselov
2. Diplomacy, War, and a Witch: Peace Negotiations before the Mongol Invasion of Rus’
Alexander V. Maiorov
3. The Mongol Invasions of Poland in the Thirteenth Century. The Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives for Future Research
Witold Świętosławski
4. Mongol Inroads into Hungary in the Thirteenth Century: Investigating Some Unexplored Avenues
Stephen Pow
5. The Bohemian Kingdom and the Mongol ʻInvasionʼ of 1241
Tomáš Somer
Part II: The Mongols and Central Europe
6. Mongol Attack on the Upper Hungary in 1285
Michal Holeščák
7. Mongol-Hungarian Encounters in the Fourteenth Centuries
István Vásáry
8. The Polish-Mongol Conflict over Succession of the Halych and Volhynian Principality in the Middle of the Fourteenth Century
Roman Hautala
Part III: The Mongols and Southeastern Europe
9. Byzantium and the Mongol World: Contacts and Interaction (from Batu to Tamerlane)
Alexander Nikolov
10. A Century of the Tatars ‘Hegemony’: the Golden Horde and Bulgarian Lands (1241–1341)
Aleksandar Uzelac
Part IV: The Golden Horde and Russia
11. Basqaqs in Rus’: Social Strategy of Power
Adrian Jusupović
12. From Supreme Judge to Arbitrator: Conflicts of Rus’ Princes under the Golden Horde Khans’ Trial (Case Studies)
Roman Iu. Pochekaev
13. The Muscovite Rus’ and the Tatar States in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century: The Main Trends of Relations
Maxim V. Moiseev
14. The Turks in the Grand Principality of Moscow: Migrations, Services, Material Allowance
Andrey V. Belyakov
Part V: The Golden Horde and Lithuania
15. The Lithuanians and the Tatars: Confrontation from a Safe Distance and Vested Interests in the Common Ground
Darius Baronas
16. A Lithuanian Embassy in the Golden Horde in 1348: The Background and Consequences
Moshe Grinberg
17. Expansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Middle and the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century and Its Relations with the Horde
Vladyslav Gulevych
18. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Tatar World in the Fifteenth Century
Vladyslav Gulevych
Part VI: Trade and Economic Relations
19. The Economics of Mongol Rule in Rus’, 1237–1350
Lawrence Langer
20. Armenian Diasporas between the Golden Horde, Rus’, and Poland: Long-Distance Trade and Diplomatic Services
Alexander Osipian
21. Genoa and Venice in the Golden Horde: Politics, Trade, and Society
Lorenzo Pubblici
Part VII: Cultural Exchange and Church-Religious Interaction
22. Alexander the Great and Other Personages in the ‘Tale of the Battle against Mamai’
Dmitrij M. Bulanin
23. From monstrous creatures to neighboring humans: image of the Mongols in the European book miniatures of the thirteenth-sixteenth centuries
Fedor N. Veselov
24. Between the Politics of Accommodation and Independence: Rus’, the Mongols, and the Church, 1237–1350
Lawrence Langer
25. Islamization of the Golden Horde during the Özbeg Khan’s Rule according to Muslim, Latin and Rus’ian Sources
Roman Hautala
Biography
Alexander V. Maiorov is Professor and Head of the Department of Museology at St. Petersburg State University, Russia.
Roman Hautala is a Docent in the Department of History at University of Oulu, Finland.
