To See the Mongols 3: An Interregnum

Today, a quick rewind into what it means to be a Mongol, some early reactions to the Mongol invasion, some King Louis IX, the death of a khan, and the question of who is to be next. Also, I horribly butcher Eljigidei's name. Sorry, Eljigidei. Thanks for listening! Twitter: www.twitter.com/circus_human Email: [email protected] Instagram: www.instagram.com/humancircuspod/ Donate to the podcast: https://ko-fi.com/A7071B1K Shop: www.redbubble.com/people/HumanCircus Sources: * Carpini, Giovanni. The Story of the Mongols: Whom we Call the Tartars, translated by Erik Hildinger. Branden Books, 1996. * Joinville, Jean. The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville. John Murray, 1906. * Paris, Matthew. English History. From the Year 1235 to 1273, translated by J. A. Giles. George Bell & Sons, 1889. * The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck, translated by Peter Jackson. The Hakluyt Society, 1990. * The Mongol Mission: Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, edited by Christopher Dawson. Sheed & Ward, 1955. * The Secret History of the Mongols, translated by Urgunge Onon. RoutledgeCurzon, 2001. * Jackson, Peter. The Mongols and the West: 1221-1410. Pearson Longman, 2005. * Jackson, Peter. "Medieval Christendom's Encounter with the Alien." In Travellers, Intellectuals, and the World Beyond Medieval Europe, edited by James Muldoon, 347-369. Routledge, 2016. * Man, John. Kublai Khan. Bantam, 2007. * Morgan, David. The Mongols. Blackwell, 1986. * Rachewiltz, Igor de. Papal Envoys to the Great Khans. Faber & Faber, 1971. * Waterfield, Robin. Christians in Persia. Allen & Unwin, 1973.