The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas T. AllsenSeries:Encounters with AsiaPublish date:2019-06-07Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812251173ISBN-10:812251172UPC:9780812251173Book Category:History, Crafts & HobbiesBook Subcategory:Asia, World, JewelryBook Topic:Central AsiaSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCSA52KD63
The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire
In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan) ordered that they cut open every slain person on the battlefield. Pearls, valued for aesthetic, economic, religious, and political reasons, were the...
Series: Encounters with Asia
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812251173ISBN-10:812251172UPC:9780812251173Book Category:History, Crafts & HobbiesBook Subcategory:Asia, World, JewelryBook Topic:Central AsiaSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCSA52KD63
Thomas T. Allsen (1940-2019) was Professor Emeritus of The College of New Jersey and author of several books, including Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles and Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. His The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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