D O Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 697799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D O Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | O Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN D O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8753-4416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire
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 …
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World. Suzanna Ivanič, Mary Laven, and Andrew Morrall, eds. Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700 18. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 262 pp. + color pls. €109. - Volume 74 Issue 2
The Sensory Web of Vision: Enchantment and Agency in Religious Material Culture
Scholars can interpret images as historical artifacts that perform enchantment. I will define enchantment as the action that images perform as part of a network of other things such as people, other images, and places. To this group of agents, we may add other actors such as lore, ritual, and the physical setting in which people encounter images. Taken together, these components form the ecology of vision. An image does not operate alone, but as …
How pictures complete us: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
"How pictures complete us: the beautiful, the sublime, and the divine." Material Religion, 14(1), pp. 135–136
Soldier Statues and Empty Pedestals: Public Memory in the Wake of the Confederacy
Some images live an unpredictable life. They stand or hang quietly for a long while, inviting inattention to the point that they waver on the cusp of invisibility. Think of the virtually anonymous
The Material Culture of Divination
As long as scholars have struggled to define religion as a human phenomenon, they have included in their deliberations the varied practices of divination. Any consideration of magic, the occult, ri
The Monks of Kublai Khan: Emperor of China
Introduction by David Morgan Preface Introduction by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge The Nestorian Christians and their doctrines The heresy of Nestorius Progress of nestorianism The conversion of Turkestan Downfall of the Nestorian Church in China Creed and doctrine of the Nestorians The travels of the Nestorian Chinese monks, Rabban Sawma and Markos 1: The travels of Sauma and Mark The Paiza or Bull of the Mongol kings 2: The travels of Rabban Sawma Saw…
Material religion's first decade
Chingiz Khan: The Life and Legacy of an Empire Builder * By S. A. H. Haqqi
Journal Article Chingiz Khan: the Life and Legacy of an Empire BuilderBy S. A. H. Haqqi Get access Chingiz Khan: the Life and Legacy of an Empire BuilderBy S. A. H. Haqqi (Delhi: Primus Books, 2010), xvi + 287 pp., appendices, bibliography, index. Price HB $99.50. EAN 978–8190891899. David Morgan David Morgan University of Wisconsin–Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume…
Alexander Hargreaves Morton 1942–2011
Introduction: Key Words in Material Religion
The origin and mission of Material Religion
Beginning its sixth year of publication, Material Religion is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to gather the best work from around the world engaged in materializing the study of religions. The editors welcome original scholarship on any religion and from any period in human history that treats material objects and practices as primary evidence and engages in critical reflection on the cultural construction of materiality. In this article …
Seeing Protestant Icons: The Popular Reception of Visual Media in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America
Although it is commonly asserted that Protestantism bears an intrinsic antagonism toward images, this claim is manifestly, contradicted by a long history of the production and use of images among Protestants the world over. At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, British organizations such as Hannah More's Cheap Repository and the Religious Tract Society, and a host of tract and Sunday school societies formed in …
The vicissitudes of seeing: Iconoclasm and idolatry
Alain Besançon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm. Trans. by Jane Marie Todd. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000, viii+423 pp., 32 b/w illustrations, $40.00 ISBN 0 226 04413 0. Albert Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalistic Era. Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press, 1998, xvii+427 pp., 86 b/w illustrations, $69…
Ibn Battūta and the Mongols
The revised text of the Charles Beckingham Memorial Lecture, Ibn Battūta and the Mongols, delivered to the Royal Asiatic Society on 13th January 2000 by D. O. Morgan
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
Journal Article Protestants & Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production. By David Morgan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv, 417 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513029-4.) Get access Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, J…
A History of Inner Asia Svat Soucek
Journal Article A History of Inner Asia Svat Soucek Get access D. O. Morgan D. O. Morgan University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1253–1254, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1253 Published: 01 November 2000
Professor Charles Fraser Beckingham, FBA
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The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their pe…
Marco Polo in China — or not
Marco Polo's book — The Travels, The Description of the World, II Milione , or whatever we prefer to call it — is unquestionably the best known of all contemporary sources on that unprecedented historical phenomenon, the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. That is not to say that it is by any means the best source. As history, it cannot compare, for example, with Rashīd al-Dīn's Jāmi' al-tawārīkh , and as a European travel a…
Edward Gibbon and the East
Revue critique de l'oeuvre historique d'Edward Gibbon (Le declin et la chute de l'Empire Romain) et des ses commentateurs, particulierement a propos de son traitement du Proche-Orient ancien preislamique et islamique et de l'Asie ancienne
Sechen Jagchid: Essays in Mongolian studies. (David M. Kennedy Centre for International Studies Monograph Series, no. 3.) xx, 348Provo Utah: Brigham Young University, David M.Kennedy Centre for Intern…
Sechen Jagchid: Essays in Mongolian studies. (David M. Kennedy Centre for International Studies Monograph Series, no. 3.) xx, 348Provo Utah: Brigham Young University, David M.Kennedy Centre for International Studies, 1988. - Volume 54 Issue 2
B. Reviews: General
Writings of Ann K. S. Lambton
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The 'GreatYāsāof Chingiz Khān' and Mongol law in the ĪLkhānate
One of the odder features of the Persian sources on the history of the Mongol period is the vagueness and comparative rarity of references to the 'Great Yāsā of Chingiz khān'. This struck me with renewed force after reading Professor David Ayalon‚s articles on theYāsā in Studia Islamica. My suspicions about the whole matter having thus been aroused, it seemed to me that it might be an interesting exercise to look again at the origin and nature of…
The origin and mission of Material Religion
Beginning its sixth year of publication, Material Religion is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to gather the best work from around the world engaged in materializing the study of religions. The editors welcome original scholarship on any religion and from any period in human history that treats material objects and practices as primary evidence and engages in critical reflection on the cultural construction of materiality. In this article …
The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their pe…
Ibn Battūta and the Mongols
The revised text of the Charles Beckingham Memorial Lecture, Ibn Battūta and the Mongols, delivered to the Royal Asiatic Society on 13th January 2000 by D. O. Morgan
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
Journal Article Protestants & Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production. By David Morgan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv, 417 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513029-4.) Get access Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, J…
The Mongol Armies in Persia
The 'GreatYāsāof Chingiz Khān' and Mongol law in the ĪLkhānate
One of the odder features of the Persian sources on the history of the Mongol period is the vagueness and comparative rarity of references to the 'Great Yāsā of Chingiz khān'. This struck me with renewed force after reading Professor David Ayalon‚s articles on theYāsā in Studia Islamica. My suspicions about the whole matter having thus been aroused, it seemed to me that it might be an interesting exercise to look again at the origin and nature of…
Introduction: Key Words in Material Religion
Material religion's first decade
Soldier Statues and Empty Pedestals: Public Memory in the Wake of the Confederacy
Some images live an unpredictable life. They stand or hang quietly for a long while, inviting inattention to the point that they waver on the cusp of invisibility. Think of the virtually anonymous
Edward Gibbon and the East
Revue critique de l'oeuvre historique d'Edward Gibbon (Le declin et la chute de l'Empire Romain) et des ses commentateurs, particulierement a propos de son traitement du Proche-Orient ancien preislamique et islamique et de l'Asie ancienne
Who ran the Mongol Empire
“With the Mongols there is neither slave nor free man; neither believer nor pagan.... And every one who approacheth them and offereth to them any of the mammon of the world, they accept it from him, and they entrust to him whatsoever office he seeketh, whether it be great or whether it be little, whether he knoweth how to administer it, or whether he doth not. All they demand is strenuous service and submission which is beyond the power (of man t…
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World. Suzanna Ivanič, Mary Laven, and Andrew Morrall, eds. Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700 18. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 262 pp. + color pls. €109. - Volume 74 Issue 2
The Material Culture of Divination
As long as scholars have struggled to define religion as a human phenomenon, they have included in their deliberations the varied practices of divination. Any consideration of magic, the occult, ri
The Monks of Kublai Khan: Emperor of China
Introduction by David Morgan Preface Introduction by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge The Nestorian Christians and their doctrines The heresy of Nestorius Progress of nestorianism The conversion of Turkestan Downfall of the Nestorian Church in China Creed and doctrine of the Nestorians The travels of the Nestorian Chinese monks, Rabban Sawma and Markos 1: The travels of Sauma and Mark The Paiza or Bull of the Mongol kings 2: The travels of Rabban Sawma Saw…
Seeing Protestant Icons: The Popular Reception of Visual Media in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America
Although it is commonly asserted that Protestantism bears an intrinsic antagonism toward images, this claim is manifestly, contradicted by a long history of the production and use of images among Protestants the world over. At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, British organizations such as Hannah More's Cheap Repository and the Religious Tract Society, and a host of tract and Sunday school societies formed in …
The vicissitudes of seeing: Iconoclasm and idolatry
Alain Besançon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm. Trans. by Jane Marie Todd. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000, viii+423 pp., 32 b/w illustrations, $40.00 ISBN 0 226 04413 0. Albert Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalistic Era. Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press, 1998, xvii+427 pp., 86 b/w illustrations, $69…
Marco Polo in China — or not
Marco Polo's book — The Travels, The Description of the World, II Milione , or whatever we prefer to call it — is unquestionably the best known of all contemporary sources on that unprecedented historical phenomenon, the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. That is not to say that it is by any means the best source. As history, it cannot compare, for example, with Rashīd al-Dīn's Jāmi' al-tawārīkh , and as a European travel a…
Cassiodorus and Rashīd al-Dīn on barbarian rule in Italy and Persia
Italy in the late fifth centurya.d.and Persia in the mid-thirteenth were lands of ancient and deeply-rooted culture. One had been at the centre of the western Roman Empire; the other had formed a significant part of the society of medieval Islam, and its traditions stretched back further still. Both lands found themselves invaded, conquered, and ruled by wandering 'barbarians', Ostrogoths and Mongols respectively, from beyond the then recognized …
The Mongol Armies in Persia
The Mongol Empire: A review article
The publication of a new history of medieval Central Asia, over half of which is concerned with the empire of the Chingizid Mongols, provides an opportunity for a survey of a number of books on that subject that have appeared during the past decade. Professor Kwanten's book is, more or less avowedly, an attempt to replace Rene Grousset's L'empire des steppes as the standard introduction to Central Asian history. I begin, then, with the English tr…
Who ran the Mongol Empire
“With the Mongols there is neither slave nor free man; neither believer nor pagan.... And every one who approacheth them and offereth to them any of the mammon of the world, they accept it from him, and they entrust to him whatsoever office he seeketh, whether it be great or whether it be little, whether he knoweth how to administer it, or whether he doth not. All they demand is strenuous service and submission which is beyond the power (of man t…
Josef Van Ess, Der Wesir und seine Gelehrten
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The Yorkist claim to the throne of Castile
The treaty of Bayonne (1388), by which John of Gaunt and his wife Constance, daughter of Pedro I, vested their claim to Castile in John I, ignored the interest in the claim of Isabel duchess of York, Constance's younger sister, and of her family. Isabel's descendants, the dukes of York, regarded themselves as inheriting the legitimist claim to Castile, whereas the Lancastrians recognised the right of the ruling house of Trastámara. In 1412 Edward…
Jean Richard: Croisés, missionaires et voyageurs: les perspectives orientales du monde latin médiéval. [xv], [325] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1983. £26
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Writings of Ann K. S. Lambton
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The 'GreatYāsāof Chingiz Khān' and Mongol law in the ĪLkhānate
One of the odder features of the Persian sources on the history of the Mongol period is the vagueness and comparative rarity of references to the 'Great Yāsā of Chingiz khān'. This struck me with renewed force after reading Professor David Ayalon‚s articles on theYāsā in Studia Islamica. My suspicions about the whole matter having thus been aroused, it seemed to me that it might be an interesting exercise to look again at the origin and nature of…
B. Reviews: General
Sechen Jagchid: Essays in Mongolian studies. (David M. Kennedy Centre for International Studies Monograph Series, no. 3.) xx, 348Provo Utah: Brigham Young University, David M.Kennedy Centre for Intern…
Sechen Jagchid: Essays in Mongolian studies. (David M. Kennedy Centre for International Studies Monograph Series, no. 3.) xx, 348Provo Utah: Brigham Young University, David M.Kennedy Centre for International Studies, 1988. - Volume 54 Issue 2
Edward Gibbon and the East
Revue critique de l'oeuvre historique d'Edward Gibbon (Le declin et la chute de l'Empire Romain) et des ses commentateurs, particulierement a propos de son traitement du Proche-Orient ancien preislamique et islamique et de l'Asie ancienne
Marco Polo in China — or not
Marco Polo's book — The Travels, The Description of the World, II Milione , or whatever we prefer to call it — is unquestionably the best known of all contemporary sources on that unprecedented historical phenomenon, the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. That is not to say that it is by any means the best source. As history, it cannot compare, for example, with Rashīd al-Dīn's Jāmi' al-tawārīkh , and as a European travel a…
Professor Charles Fraser Beckingham, FBA
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their pe…
A History of Inner Asia Svat Soucek
Journal Article A History of Inner Asia Svat Soucek Get access D. O. Morgan D. O. Morgan University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1253–1254, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1253 Published: 01 November 2000
Ibn Battūta and the Mongols
The revised text of the Charles Beckingham Memorial Lecture, Ibn Battūta and the Mongols, delivered to the Royal Asiatic Society on 13th January 2000 by D. O. Morgan
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
Journal Article Protestants & Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production. By David Morgan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv, 417 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513029-4.) Get access Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, J…
The vicissitudes of seeing: Iconoclasm and idolatry
Alain Besançon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm. Trans. by Jane Marie Todd. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000, viii+423 pp., 32 b/w illustrations, $40.00 ISBN 0 226 04413 0. Albert Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalistic Era. Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press, 1998, xvii+427 pp., 86 b/w illustrations, $69…
Seeing Protestant Icons: The Popular Reception of Visual Media in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America
Although it is commonly asserted that Protestantism bears an intrinsic antagonism toward images, this claim is manifestly, contradicted by a long history of the production and use of images among Protestants the world over. At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, British organizations such as Hannah More's Cheap Repository and the Religious Tract Society, and a host of tract and Sunday school societies formed in …
The origin and mission of Material Religion
Beginning its sixth year of publication, Material Religion is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to gather the best work from around the world engaged in materializing the study of religions. The editors welcome original scholarship on any religion and from any period in human history that treats material objects and practices as primary evidence and engages in critical reflection on the cultural construction of materiality. In this article …
Introduction: Key Words in Material Religion
Chingiz Khan: The Life and Legacy of an Empire Builder * By S. A. H. Haqqi
Journal Article Chingiz Khan: the Life and Legacy of an Empire BuilderBy S. A. H. Haqqi Get access Chingiz Khan: the Life and Legacy of an Empire BuilderBy S. A. H. Haqqi (Delhi: Primus Books, 2010), xvi + 287 pp., appendices, bibliography, index. Price HB $99.50. EAN 978–8190891899. David Morgan David Morgan University of Wisconsin–Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume…
Alexander Hargreaves Morton 1942–2011
The Monks of Kublai Khan: Emperor of China
Introduction by David Morgan Preface Introduction by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge The Nestorian Christians and their doctrines The heresy of Nestorius Progress of nestorianism The conversion of Turkestan Downfall of the Nestorian Church in China Creed and doctrine of the Nestorians The travels of the Nestorian Chinese monks, Rabban Sawma and Markos 1: The travels of Sauma and Mark The Paiza or Bull of the Mongol kings 2: The travels of Rabban Sawma Saw…
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