IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 815: Chinggisid Ripples, IV: Lineage and Aristocracy across Mongol Eurasia
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Geoffrey Humble, Department of History, University of Birmingham Márton Vér, Seminar für Turkologie und Zentralasienkunde, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Márton Vér, Seminar für Turkologie und Zentralasienkunde, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| Respondent: | Márton Vér, Seminar für Turkologie und Zentralasienkunde, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| Paper 815-a | The Line of Quyidu: A Kereyid Aristocratic Lineage from Mongolia to Iran, or How the Mongol Military System Worked (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Military History |
| Paper 815-b | Fifteen Weddings and Two Funerals: Networks and Questions in a Mongol-Era Tombstone (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Genealogy and Prosopography, Language and Literature - Other |
| Abstract | The Chinggisid imperial project saw the extension, movement and translation of both political frameworks and peoples over huge distances. This session interrogates the complex and multi-directional nature of interactions between aristocratic lineages and imperial institutions. Simon Berger illustrates key aspects of Chinggisid military structures through a case study of a Kereyid aristocratic lineage. Through interrogation of an exhumed muzhiming tombstone drawing on East and Inner Asian forms, Geoff Humble illustrates both the value of, and questions posed by, such funerary objects' mapping of subjects and networks. The discussant, Márton Vér, will draw together key threads from this session with salient points from the previous three discussions in the series. |