The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France: Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221-1422

by Mark Cruse

The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasia--the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquest--their encounters altered each other's understanding of the world and their place in it.

The Mongol influence on French culture is visible in what Mark Cruse calls...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501779354
• ISBN13: 9781501779350
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages