Jack Weatherford is a professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in tribal peoples and the author of Indian Givers, Native Roots, Savages and Civilization and The History of Money.
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story.
The queens of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the world’s first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Outlandish stories of these powerful queens trickled out of the Empire, shocking the citizens of Europe and and the Islamic world.
After Genghis Khan’s death in 1227, conflicts erupted between his daughters and his daughters-in-law; what began as a war between powerful women soon became a war against women in power as brother turned against sister, son against mother. At the end of this epic struggle, the dynasty of the Mongol queens had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record..
One of the most unusual and important warrior queens of history arose to avenge the wrongs, rescue the tattered shreds of the Mongol Empire, and restore order to a shattered world. Putting on her quiver and picking up her bow, Queen Mandhuhai led her soldiers through victory after victory. In her thirties she married a seventeen-year-old prince, and she bore eight children in the midst of a career spent fighting the Ming Dynasty of China on one side and a series of Muslim warlords on the other. Her unprecedented success on the battlefield provoked the Chinese into the most frantic and expensive phase of wall building in history. Charging into battle even while pregnant, she fought to reassemble the Mongol Nation of Genghis Khan and to preserve it for her own children to rule in peace.
At the conclusion of his magnificently researched and ground-breaking narrative, Weatherford notes that, despite their mystery and the efforts to erase them from our collective memory, the deeds of these Mongol queens inspired great artists from Chaucer and Milton to Goethe and Puccini, and so their stories live on today. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford restores the queens’ missing chapter to the annals of history.
在读这本书之前,读过杰克•威泽弗德的《成吉思汗与今日世界之形成》,已经领略过他讲故事的风采,很精彩,娓娓道来,让读者如同身临其境,为我们展示了一位卓越人物是如何创造了自己的帝国,并对我们今日世界的形成的深刻影响。该书成功塑造了成吉思汗的新形象,他是...
评分令我首先惊诧的是这本书的作者竟然是外国人,中国人翻译外国人写的关于中国古代的书籍,这真是有意思。其次,我一直对于北方的草原有种说不出的情愫,不知是对未知世界的迷恋,还是对异域情调的痴迷,总之,这是我一直想要接触而未得其要领的区域,这一度使我坐卧不安,就是看...
评分从来没以这个角度来想过历史的面貌。会有一种,喔原来如此的感觉。历史原来是被人修改成任意形状的怪物。以前虽然知道历史是胜利者书写的,却从未想过会有人从“历史”中消失。现在真的有种感觉,我们所看到的历史到底是个什么玩意儿?只是控制思想的工具?为任何目的都能找到...
评分“妇女能顶半边天”这句话,在蒙元帝国得到了充分体现。成吉思汗的母亲诃额仑、成吉思汗的妻子孛儿帖、拖雷的妻子唆鲁禾贴尼、忽必烈的皇后察必,成吉思汗的公主阿剌海别,最后的蒙古女王满都海等……她们既是伟大的妻子,又是贤良的母亲各个贤良,每一位都可以树碑立传。
评分我们所知道的蒙古帝国,是一个历史上横跨了欧亚大陆的庞大帝国,北到北冰洋,南达波斯湾,东至朝鲜半岛,西及黑海沿岸(鼎盛时至匈牙利),曾经占据了世界上超过五分之一的土地面积,是世界历史上最伟大的帝国之一。这个由成吉思汗和他的子孙们骑在马背上建立起来的帝国,充满...
“In history, those individuals who refuse the options presented by the circumstances of life usually end up broken. Those few who reject what life offers and still find their own path are rightfully called heroes.”
评分“In history, those individuals who refuse the options presented by the circumstances of life usually end up broken. Those few who reject what life offers and still find their own path are rightfully called heroes.”
评分“In history, those individuals who refuse the options presented by the circumstances of life usually end up broken. Those few who reject what life offers and still find their own path are rightfully called heroes.”
评分“In history, those individuals who refuse the options presented by the circumstances of life usually end up broken. Those few who reject what life offers and still find their own path are rightfully called heroes.”
评分“In history, those individuals who refuse the options presented by the circumstances of life usually end up broken. Those few who reject what life offers and still find their own path are rightfully called heroes.”
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