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The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange - culturally, politically, and artistically - across Eurasia. The wide-ranging international exchange that occurred during the Mongol period is most apparent visually through the inclusion of Mongol motifs in textile, paintings, ceramics, and metalwork, among other media. In
In Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange (Routledge, 2020), Eiren Shea investigates how a group of newly-confederated tribes from the steppe conquered the most sophisticated societies in existence in less than a century, creating a courtly idiom that permanently changed the aesthetics of China and whose echoes were felt across Central Asia, the Middle East, and even Europe.
Eiren Shea is Assistant Professor of Art History at Grinnell College.
Tanja Tolar is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Tanja Tolar is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.