“…We do not know, who are they, where are they from and what are their aims”. The Mongol Expansion in the Light of Published Latin Sources [PDF]
This article is primarily dedicated to the monograph of R. Hautala “From ‘David, King of the Indies’ to ‘Detestable Plebs of Satan’: An Anthology of Early Latin Information about the Tatar-Mongols”.
F.N. Veselov, A.V. Maiorov
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Devin DeWeese, « Islamization in the Mongol Empire » [PDF]
L’auteur etudie les processus d’islamisation dans l’Iran ilkhanide, la Horde d’Or et le khanat chaghataide. Les Ilkhans regnerent sur une population largement musulmane et en l’espace d’un quart de siecle, Teguder Aḥmad fut le premier Ilkhan a se convertir.
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The tale of Lady Tan: negotiating place between Central and local in Song-Yuan-Ming China [PDF]
This paper explores the story of Lady Tan across genres from biographical record to temple inscription and marvellous tale, highlighting different representations of ‘the local’ in these stories: the loss of local belonging for some, inscribing the ...
Gerritsen, Anne
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ABSTRACT The eighteenth‐century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectual culture of the Mughal Empire and created by individuals who explicitly sought to inform and influence their new colonial patrons.
Abhishek Kaicker
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Offensive Heritage in an Era of Globalization and Mass Migration
ABSTRACT Essays on the ethics of monuments tend to focus on their morality in relation to domestic populations. In this article we turn our attention to how the principles we favor for the ‘ingroup’ apply to various ‘outgroups’, including foreigners and foreign governments, guest workers, visiting scholars, forcibly annexed or colonized peoples, and ...
Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo
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Comparing (Empirical-Gramian-Based) Model Order Reduction Algorithms [PDF]
In this work, the empirical-Gramian-based model reduction methods: Empirical poor man's truncated balanced realization, empirical approximate balancing, empirical dominant subspaces, empirical balanced truncation, and empirical balanced gains are compared in a non-parametric and two parametric variants, via ten error measures: Approximate Lebesgue $L_0$
arxiv
Batu Khan’s Invasion in the Imagination of French Medieval Authors
Objective: A consideration of the problem of imagining the Mongol-Tatar invasion of Europe (1237–1242) led by Batu Khan in the works of French medieval authors from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.
Luniak Ye.M.
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A Study of the Relations between the Mongols and Western Europe : a Reappraisal of Erchelthay's Letter Adressed to Louis IX [PDF]
In 1248 while staying at Nicosia, Louis IX received a visit of two men, who professed themselves to be emissaries sent by Erchelthay, a Mongol general. They handed over a letter to him.
海老澤, 哲雄
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Empirical phi-divergence test statistics in the logistic regression model [PDF]
In this paper we apply divergence measures to empirical likelihood applied to logistic regression models. We define a family of empirical test statistics based on divergence measures, called empirical phi-divergence test statistics, extending the empirical likelihood ratio test.
arxiv
Explaining the Path of the Democratic Transition
ABSTRACT The paper explains two centuries of development of the political systems of the west by the underlying economic fundamentals. Democracy indices for the average country have a strong long‐run empirical relation to income that looks like a perfect transition curve. The traditional steady state political system was the three pillars model of king,
Martin Paldam
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