ABSTRACT
Jason Stoessel explores ‘pan-Eurasian cultural and musical relations witnessed during the Mongol age’ (12th–14th centuries): Latin missionaries, particularly mendicant friars, transported Catholic plainsong to the empire of the Khan, discovering alterities in the concepts of voice and song, as documented in their travel accounts and the famous 14th-century Codex Cumanicus, which are analysed to reveal a unique fusion of Central Asian language and Western European song.
