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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 May 2017
      20 April 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316711774
      9781107167568
      9781316618066
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711774
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.11kg, 460 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.92kg, 480 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Regional History Before 1500
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    Book description

    This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noblewoman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to nephews of Saladin after her father was captured during a siege. She was later raped and then married by the Khwarazmshah and held hostage by the Mongols, before being made an independent ruler under them in eastern Anatolia. Her tale stretches from the Mediterranean to Mongolia and reveals the extraordinary connections across continents and cultures that one woman could experience. Without a voice of her own, surviving monuments - monasteries and mosques, caravanserais and palaces - build up a picture of Tamta's world and the roles women played in it. The book explores how women's identities changed between different courts, with shifting languages, religions and cultures, and between their roles as daughters, wives, mothers and widows.

    Awards

    Honourable mention, 2018 PROSE Award for European and World History

    Reviews

    '… the volume is superbly illustrated: much can and should be learnt about Tamta’s world simply by examining the plates in the light of Eastmond’s highly knowledgeable and thoroughly comprehensible commentary.'David Morgan, The Times Literary Supplement

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    Contents

    Contents
    • 1 - A New World of Encounters
      pp 1-20
    • The Life of Tamta Mqargrdzeli
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