Название: Crusaders, Missionaries and Eurasian Nomads in the 13th–14th Centuries: A Century of Interactions
Издательство: Editura Academiei Române
ISBN: 978-973-27-2822-2
Язык: английский + русский
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf
Размер: 16.0 Мб
Кол-во страниц: 478
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This anthology reprints seventeen published and prints two unpublished articles by Roman Hautala of the University of Oulu (Finland) and the Marjani Institute of the History of Tatarstan of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. Hautala’s research focuses on “Latin sources known only to a narrow circle of researchers of Catholic missionary activity in the medieval East” (245). He makes a convincing case that “the accuracy of the Latin sources is not inferior to the reliability of the Mamluk and Persian sources” (43334). Many of these sources were written by missionaries from inside the Jochid ulus, and thus have an advantage over the Asian sources written from abroad. Collectively the articles in this anthology enlarge the source base upon which the history of the Jochid ulus can be written, or, in some cases, demonstrate that previous historical views should be revised. Hautala thus make a significant contribution to our knowledge of nomads in the western Eurasian steppe. The published articles appeared between 2014 and 2017. Eleven articles are in English, eight in Russian (each of which has an Englishlanguage summary). Hautala has made no effort to standardize terminology, but specialists are accustomed to such variety. In addition, he cites articles that appear in the anthology without crossreferencing them; it is up to the reader to realize that they are readily available by turning the page. The articles are organized in two numbered “parts.” In the “Table of Contents,” the articles are numbered but the numbers do not appear on the title pages of the article.