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Some time before 1162 a Mongol girl named Hoelun was kidnapped and taken as a bride. A short time later she gave birth to a future emperor. Although the details of her story are shrouded in mystery, the tales that are told of her reveal a wealth of information about steppe culture and hint at the motivations of her son as he rewrote the very fabric of that society.
Podcaster: Samantha
Further Reading
Urgunge Onon, trans., The Secret History of the Mongols: The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan, Routledge, 2001. Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Three Rivers Press, 2004. Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
YossI
10/8/2021 07:28:30 am
I am a big fan of your pocast, but have only recently discovered it. As a medieval enthusiast, who specializes in women's history, I loved this episode based on the comparative contemporary legal codification happening far away in Iberia (Based on the Usatges #85). It seems that at least from a legal history sense, women's historians might see the peninsula as quite the progressive place. Leave a Reply. |