The 1990s witnessed the beginning of a renaissance in the study of the Mongol Empire. Historians applied new theoretical approaches; posed new questions about economics, political culture, intellectual exchange, religion, and gender; and set out to recover the history of previously neglected regions and actors. The edited volume Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals is, in the best way, the fruit of this decades-long renovation of the field.
Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia, edited by Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca Fiaschetti, brings together an international collective of established and emerging scholars of Mongol studies to present the biographies of fifteen individuals who built their careers under Mongol rule. The book's scope spans China to Russia and Anatolia, and many of its subjects travel vast distances during their lives. In addition to this mobility, two more themes that unite the...
