The Routledge handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe : political, economic, and cultural relations / edited by Alexander V. Maiorov and Roman Hautala.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maĭorov, A. V. (Aleksandr Vi︠a︡cheslavovich), 1969- editor.

Hautala, Roman, 1973- editor.

Series:

Routledge history handbooks.

Routledge history handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mongols--History--To 1500--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Mongols.

Europe--History--476-1492--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Europe.

Europe, Central--Relations.

Europe, Central.

Europe, Eastern--Relations.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe offers a comprehensive overview of the Mongols' military, political, socio-economic and cultural relations with Central and Eastern European nations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction: from the Great Western campaign to the decline of the Golden Horde: new tendencies in the study of the Mongol factor in the history of Eastern and East Central Europe

PART I: Before and after the Great Western Campaign

1 Omens of the apocalypse: the first Rus' encounter with the Mongols through the prism of the Medieval mind

2 Diplomacy, war, and a witch: peace negotiations before the Mongol invasion of Rus'

3 The Mongol invasions of Poland in the thirteenth century: the current state of knowledge and perspectives for future research

4 Mongol inroads into Hungary in the thirteenth century: investigating some unexplored avenues

5 The Bohemian Kingdom and the Mongol 'invasion' of 1241

PART II: The Mongols and Central Europe

6 Mongol attack on the upper Hungary in 1285

7 Mongol-Hungarian encounters in the fourteenth century

8 The Polish-Mongol conflict over succession of the Halych and Volhynian Principality in the middle of the fourteenth century

PART III: The Mongols and Southeastern Europe

9 Byzantium and the Mongol world: contacts and interaction (from Batu to Tamerlane)

10 Acentury of the Tatars' 'hegemony': the Golden Horde and Bulgarian lands (1241-1341)

PART IV: The Golden Horde and Russia

11 Basqaqs in Rus': social strategy of power

12 From supreme judge to arbitrator: conflicts of Rus' princes under the Golden Horde khans' trial (case studies)

13 The Muscovite Rus' and the Tatar states in the second half of the fifteenth century: the main trends of relations

14 The Turks in the Grand Principality of Moscow: migrations, services, and material allowance

PART V: The Golden Horde and Lithuania.

15 The Lithuanians and the Tatars: confrontation from a safe distance and vested interests in the common ground

16 A Lithuanian embassy to the Golden Horde in 1348: the background and consequences

17 Expansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the middle and the second half of the fourteenth century and its relations with the Horde

18 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Tatar World in the fifteenth century

PART VI: Trade and economic relations

19 The economics of Mongol rule in Rus', 1237- 1350

20 Armenian diasporas between the Golden Horde, Rus', and Poland: long-distance trade and diplomatic services

21 Genoa and Venice in the Golden Horde: politics, trade, and society

PART VII: Cultural exchange and church-religious interaction

22 Alexander the Great and other personages in the 'Tale of the Battle against Mamai'

23 From monstrous creatures to neighbouring humans: image of the Mongols in the European book miniatures of the thirteenth- sixteenth centuries

24 Between the politics of accommodation and independence: Rus', the Mongols, and the church, 1237-1350

25 Islamization of the Golden Horde during the Özbeg Khan's rule according to Muslim, Latin, and Rus' sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-367-80995-8

1-000-41745-X

9780367809959

OCLC:

1259590183