Eurasian Responses to Chinggisid Crises

This collection interrogates the dramatic decades of the Chinggisid world empire, permitting exploration of the multi-faceted processes of premodern empire alongside opposed processes of adaptation, resilience, and continuities. This volume goes beyond common understandings of “crisis” in public discourse to employ it as a historical lens for rethinking assumptions shaping Chinggisid research, showing that crises may mark not only challenge to pre-existing norms, but the beginning of a new era. One of the greatest crises in Eurasian history involved conflict between the successor states to the Mongol Empire in the mid-fourteenth century, which led to the disappearance of these premodern polities. The new states that replaced them marked the beginning of the early modern era.

Geoffrey Humble is an independent scholar focusing on narrative historiography in and around the Mongol Empire. He completed his PhD in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham in 2018.

Márton Vér is a historian of Central Asia and Mongol Eurasia at Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project “Re-Centring Central Asia: A Global Microhistory of the Silk Road (9th to 15th Centuries).”