Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century.
Contributing authors consider how intercontinental environmental, economic, and intellectual trends affected the Empire as a whole and, where appropriate, situate regional political, social, and religious shifts within the context of the broader Mongol Empire. Issues pertaining to the Mongols and their role within the societies that they conquered therefore take precedence over the historical narrative of the societies that they conquered. Alongside the formation, conquests, administration, and political structure of the Mongol Empire, the second section examines archaeology and art history, family and royal households, science and exploration, and religion, which provides greater insight into the social history of the Empire -- an aspect often neglected by traditional dynastic and political histories.
With 58 chapters written by both senior and early-career scholars, the volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars who study the Mongol Empire from its origins to its disintegration and legacy.
Introduction
Michael Hope and Timothy May
SECTION 1: CONQUEST AND STATE FORMATION
Section 1 Introduction: Conquest and State Formation
Michael Hope and Timothy May
Part 1: Chinggis Khan and State Formation
1. Mongolia Before Chinggis Khan
Isenbike Togan
2. The Rise of Chinggis Khan
Timothy May
3. The Early Mongol State
Isenbike Togan
Part 2: The Mongol Conquests
4. The Mongol Conquest of Xi Xia
David Curtis Wright
5. The Mongol Conquest of the Jin Empire, 1211-1234
David Curtis Wright
6. The Mongol Conquest of the Song Empire, 1234-1279
David Curtis Wright
7. The Conquest of Qara Khitai and Western Siberia
Timothy May
8. Conquest of the Dasht-i Qipchaq
Timothy May
9. The Mongol Conquest of Rus’
Alexander V. Maiorov
10. The Mongol Invasions of Europe
Stephan Pow
11. The Mongol Conquest of Iran
Beatrice Forbes Manz
12. The Mongol Conquest of Transcaucasia
John Lathan-Sprinkle
13. The Mongol Conquest of the Near East
Timothy May
Part 3: The Mongol Successor States
14. The Jochid Ulus
Roman Hautala
15. The Yuan Empire
Xiaolin Ma
16. The Ilkhanate
George Lane
17. The Middle Empire
Michael Hope
Part 4: Administration and Political Structure
18. The Yasa
Denise Aigle
19. Jarqu and Jarquchin
Florence Houdous
20. Daughters, Consort Families, and the Military
Anne F. Broadbridge
21. Mongol State Formation and Imperial Transformation
Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene
22. The Keshig
Michael Hope
23. The Jam System
Hosung Shim
SECTION 2: THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE
Section 2 Introduction
Michael Hope and Timothy May
Part 5: Family and Royal Households
24. Consort Families in the Successor States
Anne F. Broadbridge
25. Elite Women in the Mongol Empire
Bruno De Nicola
Part 6: Finance, Trade, and Economy
26. Mongol Monetary Trends
Judith Kolbas
27. Maritime Silk Road: The Mongols and the Indian Ocean
Paul D. Buell
28. Taxation in the Jochid Ulus
István Vásáry
29. Overland Trade in the Mongol World
Colleen C. Ho
Part 7: Archaeology and Art History
30. The Archaeology of the Mongol Empire
Ulambayar Erdenebat, Jargalan Burentogtokh, and William Honeychurch
31. The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire
Shane McCausland
32. The Visual World of the Ilkhanids and Chaghadaids
Sheila Blair
33. Archaeology and the Material Culture of the Ulus Jochi (Golden Horde)
Daniel C. Waugh
Part 8: Religion
34. Shamans at the Court of the Qa’an
Dashdondog BAYARSAIKHAN
35. Nestorian Christianity Among the Mongols
Dashdondog BAYARSAIKHAN
36. The Islamization of the Mongols
Ishayahu Landa
37. Daoism in the Mongol Empire
Jesse Sloane
38. Confucianism in the Mongol Empire
Jesse Sloane
39. Buddhism in the Mongol Empire
Brian Baumann
40. Judaism and the Mongol Empire
Na’ama O. Arom
Part 9: Science & Exploration
41. Arabic Medicine in China and in the Mongol World
Paul D. Buell
42. Mapping & Exploration
Hyunhee Park
SECTION 3: THE MONGOLS IN WORLD HISTORY
Section 3 Introduction
Michael Hope and Timothy May
Part 10: The Mongols in the Eyes of the Conquered
43. Yuan Chinese Attitudes Towards the Mongols
Morris Rossabi
44. The Mongols in the Eyes of the Armenians
Dashdondog BAYARSAIKHAN
45. The Mongols in the Eyes of the Koryo People
Lee Kang Hahn
46. The Mongols in the Eyes of the Uyghurs
Michael C. Brose
47. From Brutes to Bodhisattvas: The Mongols in Tibetan Sources
Soyoung Choi
48. The Mongols in the Eyes of the Iranians
Michael Hope
49. The Mongols in the Eyes of the Rus’
Donald Ostrowski
50. The Mongols in the Eyes of the Papal & Royal Missions to Mongolia and China (c. 1245-1370)
Antti Ruotsala
Part 11: Beyond the Borders of the Mongol Empire
51. Mongols in the Mamluk Sultanate
Josephine van den Bent
52. The Outer Limits of Steppe Power: Mongol Excursions in Southeast Asia
James A. Anderson
53. The Mongols in South Asia
Michael Hope
54. The Mongol Invasions of Japan and Their Legacy
Li Narangoa
Part 12: The Mongol Legacy
55. The Chinggisid Legacy in the Middle East
Patrick Wing
56. Timur’s Empire
Evrim Binbaş
57. Rescuing Legitimate Narrative by Re-imaging Qubilai Qa’an
Yihao Qiu
58. The Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Mongolia
Ippei Shimamura
Biography
Timothy May (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor of Central Eurasian History at the University of North Georgia and serves as Associate Dean of Arts & Letters. A scholar of the Mongol Empire, he focuses on Mongol military history and strategy. He is the author of The Mongol Art of War (2007), The Mongol Conquests in World History (2012), The Mongol Empire (2018), The Mongols (2019), and Simply Chinggis (2021). In 2014, he was named the University of North Georgia Alumni Distinguished Professor, and he earned the UNG Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021.
Michael Hope (Ph.D., Australian National University) is Associate Professor of History at Yonsei University, Korea. He specializes in the political and cultural history of the Mongol Empire with a particular focus on the Ilkhanate. He is the author of Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran (2016).
