ABSTRACT
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.
The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, and one which contributed to the establishment of political, commercial and cultural contacts between all Eurasian regions. The Golden Horde, founded in Eastern Europe by Chinggis Khan’s grandson, Batu, in the thirteenth century, was the dominant power in the region. For two hundred years, all of the countries and peoples of Central and Eastern Europe had to reckon with a powerful centralized state with enormous military potential. Some chose to submit to the Mongols whilst others defended their independence, but none could avoid the influence of this powerful empire. In this book, twenty-five chapters examine this crucial period in Central-Eastern European history, including trade, confrontation, and cultural and religious exchange between the Mongols and their neighbours.
This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of the Mongols, as well those interested in the political, social and economic history of medieval Central-Eastern Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part I|121 pages
Before and after the Great Western Campaign
chapter 1|21 pages
Omens of the apocalypse
chapter 3|16 pages
The Mongol invasions of Poland in the thirteenth century
chapter 4|21 pages
Mongol inroads into Hungary in the thirteenth century
part II|54 pages
The Mongols and Central Europe
part III|44 pages
The Mongols and Southeastern Europe
chapter 10|21 pages
A century of the Tatars' ‘hegemony’
part IV|75 pages
The Golden Horde and Russia
chapter 12|18 pages
From supreme judge to arbitrator
chapter 13|24 pages
The Muscovite Rus' and the Tatar states in the second half of the fifteenth century
chapter 14|17 pages
The Turks in the Grand Principality of Moscow
part V|80 pages
The Golden Horde and Lithuania
chapter 15|10 pages
The Lithuanians and the Tatars
part VI|58 pages
Trade and economic relations
chapter 20|20 pages
Armenian diasporas between the Golden Horde, Rus', and Poland
part VII|66 pages
Cultural exchange and church-religious interaction