Genghis Khan’s Mongol empire had eclectic, cosmopolitan beliefs. Determination to realize belief in Mongol divine supremacy distinguished the Mongols. … Read the post Genghis Khan and the Mongols’ beliefs in comparative perspective
Sexual seduction is a more fertile field for elite literary elaboration than is religious or political fidelity, yet less socially functional. … Read the post fidelity and seduction in ancient intimate cross-cultural encounters
Christian icons were used spiritually before Islam, continued to be used through Byzantine iconoclasm, and were prevalent in the 9th-century Islamic world. … Read the post Christian icons in Islamic world during Byzantine iconoclasm
Within his chronicle, Matthew of Edessa, a twelfth-century Armenian Christian monk, figured himself with the Islamic Abbasid legend of Sindbad the Sailor. … Read the post Matthew of Edessa re-imagined Sindbad’s lure of the sea
The music business in ancient Eurasia was not just a specialized, elite urban profession. It included small, traveling enterprises. … Read the post music business in ancient Eurasian traveling trade