The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe. : political, economic, and cultural relations / edited by Alexander V. Maiorov and Roman Hautala

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: from the Great Western campaign to the decline of the Golden Horde: new tendencies in the study of the Mongol factor in the history of Eastern and East Central Europe -- PART I: Before and after the Great Western Campaign -- 1 Omens of the apocalypse: the first Rus' encounter with the Mongols through the prism of the Medieval mind -- 2 Diplomacy, war, and a witch: peace negotiations before the Mongol invasion of Rus' -- 3 The Mongol invasions of Poland in the thirteenth century: the current state of knowledge and perspectives for future research -- 4 Mongol inroads into Hungary in the thirteenth century: investigating some unexplored avenues -- 5 The Bohemian Kingdom and the Mongol 'invasion' of 1241 -- PART II: The Mongols and Central Europe -- 6 Mongol attack on the upper Hungary in 1285 -- 7 Mongol-Hungarian encounters in the fourteenth century -- 8 The Polish-Mongol conflict over succession of the Halych and Volhynian Principality in the middle of the fourteenth century -- PART III: The Mongols and Southeastern Europe -- 9 Byzantium and the Mongol world: contacts and interaction (from Batu to Tamerlane) -- 10 Acentury of the Tatars' 'hegemony': the Golden Horde and Bulgarian lands (1241-1341) -- PART IV: The Golden Horde and Russia -- 11 Basqaqs in Rus': social strategy of power -- 12 From supreme judge to arbitrator: conflicts of Rus' princes under the Golden Horde khans' trial (case studies) -- 13 The Muscovite Rus' and the Tatar states in the second half of the fifteenth century: the main trends of relations -- 14 The Turks in the Grand Principality of Moscow: migrations, services, and material allowance -- PART V: The Golden Horde and Lithuania.

15 The Lithuanians and the Tatars: confrontation from a safe distance and vested interests in the common ground -- 16 A Lithuanian embassy to the Golden Horde in 1348: the background and consequences -- 17 Expansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the middle and the second half of the fourteenth century and its relations with the Horde -- 18 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Tatar World in the fifteenth century -- PART VI: Trade and economic relations -- 19 The economics of Mongol rule in Rus', 1237- 1350 -- 20 Armenian diasporas between the Golden Horde, Rus', and Poland: long-distance trade and diplomatic services -- 21 Genoa and Venice in the Golden Horde: politics, trade, and society -- PART VII: Cultural exchange and church-religious interaction -- 22 Alexander the Great and other personages in the 'Tale of the Battle against Mamai' -- 23 From monstrous creatures to neighbouring humans: image of the Mongols in the European book miniatures of the thirteenth- sixteenth centuries -- 24 Between the politics of accommodation and independence: Rus', the Mongols, and the church, 1237-1350 -- 25 Islamization of the Golden Horde during the Özbeg Khan's rule according to Muslim, Latin, and Rus' sources -- Index.