Ta[r]tar[us]: The Russian Construction of the Medieval Mongol Legacy

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" Ta[r]tar[us]: The Russian Construction of the Medieval Mongol Legacy "
Louramore-Kirsanova, Crystal Ann Luria, Keith

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1054954
Doc. No	:	TL54071
Main Entry	:	Louramore-Kirsanova, Crystal Ann
Title & Author	:	Ta[r]tar[us]: The Russian Construction of the Medieval Mongol Legacy\ Louramore-Kirsanova, Crystal AnnLuria, Keith
College	:	North Carolina State University
Date	:	2020
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2020
Note	:	75 p.
Abstract	:	Medieval Russian literature depicts the Mongols as ungodly and destructive, and it emphasizes the Russians as antithetical to their barbaric conquerors. Traditionalists have used this literature to discredit Mongol rule in Russia and blame the Mongols for Russia’s “backwardness” in history. This thesis reexamines the literature Traditionalists have used to present the Mongols as barbaric and finds that Traditionalists fail to use these works in their entirety, neglecting literature that does not fit their anti-Mongol agenda. This thesis argues that Traditionalists deploy anti-Mongol ideology to present Russia as having a strictly western identity, one that is not “backwards” in the eyes of the rest of Europe. By examining the same literature used by Traditionalists, neglected Russian literature, and Persian and Chinese accounts from the larger Mongol Empire, the thesis shows the Mongols shaped not only Russia, but the thirteenth-century world.
Descriptor	:	Medieval history
	:	Medieval literature
	:	Russian history
	:	Russian literature
	:	Slavic literature
Added Entry	:	Luria, Keith
Added Entry	:	North Carolina State University