Spoke on a livestream last night with Chris and Joe of HistoryDose discussing the Mongol Empire www.youtube.com/live/anDlw5j...

The Mongol Q&A with the Jackmeister

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The Mongol Wrestler Princess: The Story of Qutulun www.medievalists.net/2025/10/mong... #Mongols

The Mongol Wrestler Princess: The Story of Qutulun - Medievalists.net

Discover the extraordinary life of Qutulun, the Mongol princess who never lost a wrestling match. Explore how this undefeated warrior and daughter of Qaidu Khan shaped politics, warfare, and legend…

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Clothing and Hair of Medieval Mongolian Women, by @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/01/clot... #history #mongols #medievalwomen

Clothing and Hair of Medieval Mongolian Women - Medievalists.net

How did medieval Mongolian women wear their hair and dress at court? This feature explores braids, shaving customs, and the iconic boqta headdress across Yuan and Ilkhanid art, travellers’ accounts,…

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A new article by me on @medievalists.bsky.social on the clothing and hair of (mostly upper class) medieval Mongolian women of the empire-era has now been posted. A link to it will be in the comments below.

Very pleased to announce the release of our full-scale documentary on the Mongol Invasion of Europe in 1241 with Kings & Generals. Our largest project yet, it was filmed on location in Hungary with the assistance of a number of archaeologists and historians...

Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

1/ A depiction of this scene from the famous Warqa wa Gulšāh manuscript. A romance written by the 11th century Persian poet ʿAyyūqī, it tells the story of a pair of doomed lovers, Warqa and the lady Gulšāh. The manuscript above is dated to the 13th century, and likely produced...

Had a very nice chat with Maggie Freeman of the New Books Network's "Nomads Past and Present" series about my book, music, and the environment in Mongolia: newbooksnetwork.com/a-song-for-t...

Our summer 2025 volume has been published open access at doi.org/10.1553/medi...

New paper by me with some opinions on the origins of the Second Mongol Invasion of Hungary, 1285. Link in the comments below!

- I can’t believe I was hacked. - What was your password? - The year the Mongol Empire, with the help of the Southern Song dynasty, completed its conquest of the Jin dynasty after the final Jin stronghold of Caizhou fell. - And when was that? - 1234

New article of mine with @medievalists.bsky.social on the most famous Mongolian wrestler princess

Medievalist.net@medievalists.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Mongol Wrestler Princess: The Story of Qutulun, by @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/10/mong... #Mongols #History #MedievalWomen

Listening this morning (and this afternoon) to @fallofcivilizations.com podcast on the Mongols with our Jack Wilson as historical consultant! @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social

Was curious to see if Grok, the Twitter AI monster, could tell me what articles I have published. It gave me this; none of these are real, and two of them at best sound similar to things I have published (but are still wrong in name or details).

Article of mine on the Secret History of the Mongols, its content and history #mongolempire #mongolsky #tengri

Medievalist.net@medievalists.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Secret History of the Mongols: The First Mongolian Chronicle, by @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/09/the-... #history #mongols

Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.658.b

Jurchen swordsman, based on some Da Jin Dynasty 大金 (1115-1234) armour and weapons. These pieces in the photograph may not have originally gone together as one set, but it was fun to do so anyways, especially this zhanamdao (?) styled sword, and the Hannibal Lector-esque facemask...

Never stop believing

Got reminded of this fun depiction of the battle of 'Ayn Jalut, which depicts the Mamluks as Ancient Egyptians and the Pyramids in the background (the battle was fought north of Jerusalem, not in Egypt!). However, it is no longer on the Wikipedia article for the battle, which is a plus.

Uploaded by user "Peng" on Twitter on 03.06.21, the single best scan I have ever come across of the Jin-era "Lady Wenji's Return to Han" 文姬歸漢圖, perhaps the single best surviving artistic depiction of Jurchen clothing

A new episode of The Medieval Podcast with @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : Marco Polo and his World with Sharon Kinoshita www.medievalists.net/2025/08/marc... #MarcoPolo #medieval #podcast

Marco Polo and his World with Sharon Kinoshita - Medievalists.net

This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Sharon Kinoshita about why Marco travelled so far, what sort of detail he wanted to share with his readers, and what was going on in the world…

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Should be a good listen. Dr. Kinoshita is a great scholar on Marco Polo and did one of my favourite translations of the F manuscript (the oldest extant Polo manuscript, dated ca.1310) www.medievalists.net/2025/08/marc... #tengri #mongolsky #marcopolo

Marco Polo and his World with Sharon Kinoshita - Medievalists.net

This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Sharon Kinoshita about why Marco travelled so far, what sort of detail he wanted to share with his readers, and what was going on in the world ar...

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Jurchen Jin Dynasty (大金) elites. Don't remember what I made them for originally, probably my heavy cavalry series. The Mongol Empire reused a lot of former Jin equipment and it had heavy influence on their later styles.

Khitan small script also had a variant "seal script" font. There are two magnificent examples of it: the eulogies on the tombs of Emperor Daozong 道宗 (1032-1101), and of his wife, Empress Xuanyi 宣懿 (1040-1075)

Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ@egasmb.bsky.social · last yr.

Language of the day: Khitan. It was the “state language” (國語) of the Liao 遼 state (916-1125); even the word Cathay/Китай derives from the word “khitan”. Probably related to Mongolian, we only poorly understand it now. It was written with two distinct beautiful scripts, and we don‘t know why.

Interested in the Mongol Empire and its underpinning social structure? Have a look at my newest article, "Hypotheses for a Social History of the Apanages of the Sons of Chinggis Khan and Börte" in the last issue of Przegląd Orientalistyczny! p. 99-116 pto.orient.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 I talked to Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene about his work on Mongol and Chinese history and why many pre-modern states were founded by nomadic pastoralists. Listen below ⬇️ or wherever you get your podcasts!

Watched CNN last night and saw Doug Ford, premier of Ontario (Canada's largest province by population and economy), referred to as "a Canadian official." Like calling the governor of California "a US official."

A substantial amount of all the "fun facts" people like about the Mongol Empire an are present in many publications, originate in the fever dream that is late 19th/early 20th century scholarship ("Mongols wearing arrow-proof silk vests," being one such)

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · last yr.

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of. Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.