The Mongol Empire in World History

The State of the Field

Bibliographic Data

ID9306720
AuthorsMichal Biran (0000-0001-7539-9085, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume11
Issue11
Pages1021-1033
Publication date2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hic3.12095
OpenAlexW1557367403
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited72

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 holistic perspective, in its full Eurasian context. This focus, credited mostly to the works of Thomas T. Allsen, also means that the scholarly literature now gives more space to topics that interest world historians such as the cultural, economic, religious and artistic exchanges that prevailed in Mongol Eurasia, or the legacy that the Mongol Empire left for the early modern empires. Simultaneously, the Mongols' image begins to shift from the barbarian warriors obsessed with massacres and plunder, to the Mongols as active promoters of cross‐cultural connections, who even brought about the transition from the medieval to the modern world. The paper reviews the major trends in the study of the Empire from world history perspective and argues that the nomadic civilization of the Mongols should be taken into account in world history surveys

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Barbarian · Civilization · Context (archaeology · Empire · Perspective (graphical · State (computer science · Visual arts · World history · Byzantine Studies and History · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History