Bryn Hammond
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Bryn Hammond:
Hi Bryn. I want to do more intensive reading on the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongols and you're my 'go-to-expert'. Share with me and other Goodreads folks your top books on the subject? Please.....
Bryn Hammond
Cheers for the question, Patricia (which I pasted here from the review where you asked me). Here's a few I think fantastic for up-to-date and in-depth.
The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353, edited by Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale Press, 2002
-- splendid on art history and beyond. Almost my #1.
Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art by Roxann Prazniak, University of Hawaii, 2019
-- for a wide acquaintance with the Mongol world / a view of the amazing 13th century. Again beginning in art history, but that's been at the forefront lately.
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire by Anne F. Broadbridge, Cambridge, 2018
Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335 by Bruno De Nicola, Edinburgh UP, 2017
In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600 by Jinping Wang, Harvard UP, 2018
-- social history on the changes
Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance by George Lane, Routledge, 2003
-- this gets into social history too
two major forthcoming:
The Mongol World, eds. Timothy May and Michael Hope, Routledge Worlds, 2022. 890 pp (bring them on)
Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, eds. Michal Biran and Kim Hodong, Cambridge UP, date rumoured to be 2021?
The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353, edited by Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale Press, 2002
-- splendid on art history and beyond. Almost my #1.
Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art by Roxann Prazniak, University of Hawaii, 2019
-- for a wide acquaintance with the Mongol world / a view of the amazing 13th century. Again beginning in art history, but that's been at the forefront lately.
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire by Anne F. Broadbridge, Cambridge, 2018
Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335 by Bruno De Nicola, Edinburgh UP, 2017
In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600 by Jinping Wang, Harvard UP, 2018
-- social history on the changes
Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance by George Lane, Routledge, 2003
-- this gets into social history too
two major forthcoming:
The Mongol World, eds. Timothy May and Michael Hope, Routledge Worlds, 2022. 890 pp (bring them on)
Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, eds. Michal Biran and Kim Hodong, Cambridge UP, date rumoured to be 2021?
More Answered Questions
Nicolas
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Bryn Hammond:
How did you find Timothy May's The Mongol Empire? I'm looking for a history of the Mongol empire that includes Genghis, as well as the breakup of the Empire into all 4 successor states, as opposed to books that seem to focus more on Kublai and the Yuan Dynasty than the other states.
James
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Bryn Hammond:
Bryn, i briefly remember reading a large amount of Algernon Charles Swinburne, but i can't for the life of me remember the very long poem he wrote about, i want to say a lesbian lover killing her female lover? it was written, i believe as the Anti-In Memorium, in Response to Tennyson? Do you know the work?
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