Medievalists.net » Asia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Eastward Voyages And the Late Medieval European Worldview http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/02/eastward-voyages-and-the-late-medieval-european-worldview/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/02/eastward-voyages-and-the-late-medieval-european-worldview/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2015 03:00:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62956 This thesis treats the journeys as medieval Europe’s interaction with Asia, outlining how travellers formed their perceptions of ‘the East’ through their encounters with Asian people and places.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/02/eastward-voyages-and-the-late-medieval-european-worldview/feed/ 0 Millions of people are descended from Genghis Khan and 10 other Asian dynastic leaders, researchers find http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/11/millions-people-descendant-genghis-khan-10-asian-dynastic-leaders-researchers-find/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/11/millions-people-descendant-genghis-khan-10-asian-dynastic-leaders-researchers-find/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:38:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56766 Geneticists from the University of Leicester have discovered that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders who lived up to 4,000 years ago - including Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/11/millions-people-descendant-genghis-khan-10-asian-dynastic-leaders-researchers-find/feed/ 0 The Mongol Empire: The State of the Research http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/21/mongol-empire-state-research/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/21/mongol-empire-state-research/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:37:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56351 The study of the Mongol Empire has made enormous strides in the past two decades, and its most notable impact is the shift of seeing the Empire not only in national or regional terms but from a holistic perspective, in its full Eurasian context.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/21/mongol-empire-state-research/feed/ 0 Maritime Southeast Asia: The View from Tang-Song China http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/16/maritime-southeast-asia-view-tang-song-china/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/16/maritime-southeast-asia-view-tang-song-china/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:11:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53390 The following are annotated, critical translations of monographs from the Older and Newer Tang Histories concerning the foreign peoples and kingdoms of Maritime Southeast Asia.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/16/maritime-southeast-asia-view-tang-song-china/feed/ 0 A First Escape from Poverty in Late Medieval Japan: Evidence from Real Wages in Kyoto (1360-1860) http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/first-escape-poverty-late-medieval-japan-evidence-real-wages-kyoto-1360-1860/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/first-escape-poverty-late-medieval-japan-evidence-real-wages-kyoto-1360-1860/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2014 01:04:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52872 This paper offers a first investigation of long-term trends in Japanese living standards from the mid-14th to the mid-19th century using urban daily wages and price data for a number of basic commodities.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/first-escape-poverty-late-medieval-japan-evidence-real-wages-kyoto-1360-1860/feed/ 0 Did Marco Polo go to Alaska? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/24/marco-polo-go-alaska/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/24/marco-polo-go-alaska/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:09:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52792 A set of documents, brought to United States by an Italian immigrant, may reveal new details about Marco Polo's travels in Asia, including that he possibly explored and mapped Alaska.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/24/marco-polo-go-alaska/feed/ 0 Banditry and the Clash of Powers in 14th-Century Thrace: Momcilo and his Fragmented Memory http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:54:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52418 In the 14th century, a time of civil wars, religious and dynastic strifes, epidemics, natural disasters and miserable living conditions for the wider strata in the cities and the countryside that increased migratory movements, banditry, an indigenous phenomenon in the Balkan mountainous regions, intermingled with the intensified political struggles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/feed/ 0 Travel and Travelers in Medieval Eurasia http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/travel-travelers-medieval-eurasia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/travel-travelers-medieval-eurasia/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:46:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50974 The rise of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century dramatically changed the opportunities for travel across Eurasia: for the first time we encounter those who traveled its full length and then returned home to narrate what they saw.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/travel-travelers-medieval-eurasia/feed/ 0 The Battle of Herat (1270): A Case of Inter-Mongol Warfare http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/09/battle-herat-1270-case-inter-mongol-warfare/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/09/battle-herat-1270-case-inter-mongol-warfare/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:20:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48163 When the armies of the Ilkhan Abaqa (r. 1265-1282) met the troops of the Chaghadaid Khan Baraq (r. 1266-1271) in 1270 at Herat in present-day Afghanistan, it was for a full-scale and decisive combat.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/09/battle-herat-1270-case-inter-mongol-warfare/feed/ 0 ‘Part of our commonwealth’: a study of the Normans in eleventh-century Byzantine historiography http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/29/part-of-our-commonwealth-a-study-of-the-normans-in-eleventh-century-byzantine-historiography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/29/part-of-our-commonwealth-a-study-of-the-normans-in-eleventh-century-byzantine-historiography/#comments Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:28:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47124 ‘Part of our commonwealth’: a study of the Normans in eleventh-century Byzantine historiography Alexander Olson (Simon Fraser University) Simon Fraser University: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Master of Arts (2009) Abstract In the eleventh century several Norman mercenaries went to Byzantium where they alternately served or rebelled against the Empire. This thesis examines how […]

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