{"product_id":"the-mongol-archive-in-late-medieval-france-texts-objects-encounters-1221-1422-9781501779350","title":"The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France: Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221-1422","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages.\u003c\/b\u003e As these realms expanded across Eurasia--the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquest--their encounters altered each other's understanding of the world and their place in it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mongol influence on French culture is visible in what Mark Cruse calls the Mongol archive--a wide range of materials including chronicles, crusade treatises, encyclopedias, manuscript illuminations, maps, romances, and travel accounts--revealing how the French court made sense of a people previously unknown to the European intellectual tradition. Cruse mines this archive of Franco-Mongol contact to reassess France's place in the continental history of medieval Eurasia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy comparing the French and Mongol courts, Cruse shows how their similarities allowed meaningful communication between them and highlights the surprising connections--diplomatic, intellectual, and genealogical--across vast distances. The library of King Charles V (r. 1364-1380), one of the largest in medieval Europe, is a monument to the richness of these encounters, which anticipate the global interconnectedness of the modern world. Ultimately, the innovative approach in \u003ci\u003eThe Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France \u003c\/i\u003etoward French conceptions of and relations with the Mongols demonstrates how a global perspective transforms our understanding of the medieval world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Cruse is Associate Professor of French at Arizona State University. His books include, as author, \u003ci\u003eIlluminating the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Roman d'Alexandre\" and, as editor, Performance and Theatricality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51184700195090,"sku":"9781501779350","price":73.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_30c6cecb-1dec-48ab-b713-edfd3e372bf1.jpg?v=1744568314","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-mongol-archive-in-late-medieval-france-texts-objects-encounters-1221-1422-9781501779350","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}