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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Spoke on a livestream last night with Chris and Joe of HistoryDose discussing the Mongol Empire www.youtube.com/live/anDlw5j...

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The Mongol Q&A with the Jackmeister

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A new article by me on @medievalists.bsky.social on the clothing and hair of (mostly upper class) medieval Mongolian women of the empire-era has now been posted. A link to it will be in the comments below.

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

...while summarising as much recent scholarship on the subject as we could. It's most detailed video on the great invasion ever assembled. youtu.be/pnB4K_xDJTA?...

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The Day Europe Almost Fell (1241-1242) - Kings and Generals DOCUMENTARY

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Very pleased to announce the release of our full-scale documentary on the Mongol Invasion of Europe in 1241 with Kings & Generals. Our largest project yet, it was filmed on location in Hungary with the assistance of a number of archaeologists and historians...

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 18/11/2025

Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

5/ ...and have given her a ‘lotus flower diadem,’ which commonly adorns the heads of upper-class women in the art of the Seljūqs and their successor states before the Mongol conquest.

Seljuq Bowl, Washington Freer Gallery of art https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/F1938.12/

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

4/ The scene here depicts f.23/22a. The lady Gulšāh is disguised as a man, and in this scene with her lance kills her lover’s rival, Rabī‘ ibn ‘Adnān. Yet the artists still wished to mark it clear she was a woman...

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

3/ ...Baḥrī Mamlūks), designs that don’t show yet the influence of the advent of Mongols. Thus, even though the characters are in origin Arabic, and the poem written by a Persian, the visual culture we see here is one associated with the Seljūq Turks.

f.20a " The contemplation of Gulshāh, the fight between Warqah and Rabī’, a rabbit between the feet of Rabī’'s horse; behind him, a bird; behind Gulshāh three birds at various positions; background without colour" https://warfare.6te.net/Turk/20-Varka_wa_Gulshah.htm

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

2/ ...in Konya in the Seljūq Sultanate of Rūm. With 71 illustrations, the MS (Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Hazine 841) was an expensive production, and an excellent resource for equipment and clothing of the late-Seljūqs (importance influence on the Ayyūbids, Khẉārezmšāhs and...

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

1/ A depiction of this scene from the famous Warqa wa Gulšāh manuscript. A romance written by the 11th century Persian poet ʿAyyūqī, it tells the story of a pair of doomed lovers, Warqa and the lady Gulšāh. The manuscript above is dated to the 13th century, and likely produced...

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medieval worlds. comparative and interdisciplinary studies @medievalworlds.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Our summer 2025 volume has been published open access at doi.org/10.1553/medi...

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

New paper by me with some opinions on the origins of the Second Mongol Invasion of Hungary, 1285. Link in the comments below!

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Sam @samuelhlowe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

- I can’t believe I was hacked. - What was your password? - The year the Mongol Empire, with the help of the Southern Song dynasty, completed its conquest of the Jin dynasty after the final Jin stronghold of Caizhou fell. - And when was that? - 1234

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New article of mine with @medievalists.bsky.social on the most famous Mongolian wrestler princess

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Department of Historical Studies at CEU @historicalstudies.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Listening this morning (and this afternoon) to @fallofcivilizations.com podcast on the Mongols with our Jack Wilson as historical consultant! @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Nonetheless, if you didn't know any better it would all sound convincing enough. It also made up podcast appearances I did and reviews of my work by Peter Jackson and others. All nonsense.

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Was curious to see if Grok, the Twitter AI monster, could tell me what articles I have published. It gave me this; none of these are real, and two of them at best sound similar to things I have published (but are still wrong in name or details).

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Just seeing this now, haven't been on Blue Sky for a few days. Not sure what to make of it but doubt it's a crossbow; see how the string runs in between the frame, which would not work well for any projectile. Unlikely to be a weapon, but not sure what it is

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Article of mine on the Secret History of the Mongols, its content and history #mongolempire #mongolsky #tengri

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CMA: Islamic Art @cmaislamic.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama clevelandart.org/art/1943.658.b

In this dynamic large-format painting, Bahram Gur plunges his sword into the breast of a dragon. Iranian painting during the Mongol period borrowed stylistic and spatial elements from Chinese models, such as the rock formations, tree trunk, and dragon. The surging landscape and writhing dragon create a painting of extraordinary vitality and unity. Bahram Gur (ruled ad 420-438) was a popular king from pre-Islamic Sasanian Iran and a great hunter. He took the name "Gur," meaning onager (a wild ass), because it was his preferred game-although he also excelled at killing dragons.

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I put the guy on foot mostly because I didn't feel like drawing the horse. It's expressed in a few accounts that Jurchen men preferred to wear white (see Jin Shi, juan 43), though I do not believe we have any clear artistic depictions of this in extant artwork from the Jin or Song Dynasties

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Jurchen swordsman, based on some Da Jin Dynasty 大金 (1115-1234) armour and weapons. These pieces in the photograph may not have originally gone together as one set, but it was fun to do so anyways, especially this zhanamdao (?) styled sword, and the Hannibal Lector-esque facemask...

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Toothybj @toothybj.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Never stop believing

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Got reminded of this fun depiction of the battle of 'Ayn Jalut, which depicts the Mamluks as Ancient Egyptians and the Pyramids in the background (the battle was fought north of Jerusalem, not in Egypt!). However, it is no longer on the Wikipedia article for the battle, which is a plus.

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Note the nice depictions of Jurchen bianfa 辮髮 hair styles

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Link to the user's original post: x.com/Peng201912/s...

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Uploaded by user "Peng" on Twitter on 03.06.21, the single best scan I have ever come across of the Jin-era "Lady Wenji's Return to Han" 文姬歸漢圖, perhaps the single best surviving artistic depiction of Jurchen clothing

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

There is argument about the use of the face masks (found in several Jin settlements in Primorsky Krai and Jilin), but a convincing case has been made that they were intended for archers

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Jurchen Jin Dynasty (大金) elites. Don't remember what I made them for originally, probably my heavy cavalry series. The Mongol Empire reused a lot of former Jin equipment and it had heavy influence on their later styles.

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Khitan small script also had a variant "seal script" font. There are two magnificent examples of it: the eulogies on the tombs of Emperor Daozong 道宗 (1032-1101), and of his wife, Empress Xuanyi 宣懿 (1040-1075)

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Jan Jelinowski @janjelinowski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Interested in the Mongol Empire and its underpinning social structure? Have a look at my newest article, "Hypotheses for a Social History of the Apanages of the Sons of Chinggis Khan and Börte" in the last issue of Przegląd Orientalistyczny! p. 99-116 pto.orient.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

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"Nomads, Past and Present" Podcast @nomadspod.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 I talked to Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene about his work on Mongol and Chinese history and why many pre-modern states were founded by nomadic pastoralists. Listen below ⬇️ or wherever you get your podcasts!

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The Nomadic Origin of the State - New Books Network

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Watched CNN last night and saw Doug Ford, premier of Ontario (Canada's largest province by population and economy), referred to as "a Canadian official." Like calling the governor of California "a US official."

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I suspect Chat GPT will eagerly write one a few paragraphs on the 13th century Mongolian kevlar industry

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A substantial amount of all the "fun facts" people like about the Mongol Empire an are present in many publications, originate in the fever dream that is late 19th/early 20th century scholarship ("Mongols wearing arrow-proof silk vests," being one such)

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Alajin may have been a daughter of Chinggis or Ögedei, but her year of birth is also unknown.

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A marriage is then arranged with another princess, Alajin Beki, but interupted then by Barchuq's death. Finally, Barchuq's son Kesmes (age also uncertain) is married to her at some time early in the reign of Ögedei (r.1229-1241).

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The marriage to the Uyghur royal family was initially arranged with Altun Beki, Chinggis' daughter with a secondary wife, and Barchuq, the Uyghur Idiqut. Her year of birth is unknown but she dies before the marriage goes through.

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the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

After Olar's death, she marries his son Taichu. Perhaps this union with Olar was a 'placeholder' marriage until Taichu could come of age, in which case Taichu may have been younger than her.

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