Post-Mongol States and Early Modern Chronology in Iran and China

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ID9382307
AuthorsPamela Kyle Crossley (0000-0002-2257-7092, Dartmouth College, corresponding author), Gene R Garthwaite (Dartmouth College)
Year2016
Volume26
Issue1-2
Pages293-307
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-1863 • E-ISSN: 1474-0591
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1356186315000802
OpenAlexW2343472820
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited20

In the aftermath of the Mongol occupations of the largest and most populous societies of Eurasia, greater visibility of popular religion, more widespread vernacular language use, rising literacy, and fundamental shifts in the structure of rulership and the relationship of state and society could all be observed. Many historians have related these changes to a broader chronology of early modernity. This has been problematic in the case of Iran, whose eighteenth-century passage has not been adequately explored in recent scholarship. Our comparative review of ‘post-Mongol’ Iran and China suggests that this period marks as meaningful a break between a schematic medieval and schematic early modern history in Iran as it does in China. Here, we first consider both societies in the post-Mongol period as empires with secular rulerships and increasingly popular cultural trends, and look at the role of what Crossley has called “simultaneous rulership”—rulership in which the codes of legitimacy of civilisations recognised by the conquest authority are given distinct representation in the rulership — in marking the transition away from religious-endorsed rule to self-legitimating rule as a mark of comparative early modernity

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · China · Chronology · Legitimacy · Literature · Modernity · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · State (computer science · Vernacular · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy

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