Matthieu Chochoy, De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan. Construction et déconstruction de l’idée d’empire tartare en France du xvie siècle à la fin du xviiie siècle

Recent research into the history of Central Asia has seen as a return to the primary sources and closer scrutiny applied to how knowledge has been produced and transmitted. These studies focus on the networks linking writers within a community of letters, but also how texts were used by subsequent generations to construct new narratives. The study of how and why knowledge was transmitted, and sometimes ignored, has caused modern historians to re-evaluate their approach to the source material

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