The Secret History of the Mongols, Volume 3 (Supplement)

A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25056-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7/3, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Brill's Inner Asian Library

Volume Three of Igor de Rachewiltz’s annotated translation of the Secret History of the Mongols (Brill 2004, 2006), now regarded as the standard English version of this epic biography of Cinggis Qan, is both a complement and a supplement to the first two volumes. On the one hand it revises and updates the work to the end of 2012, and on the other it introduces new interpretations and ideas about both the identity of its anonymous author and the date of its composition. It is, therefore, an indispensable companion volume for all readers and users of the earliest Mongolian literary production which contains, in the words of Arthur Waley, ‘some of the most vivid primitive literature that exists anywhere in the world.’

Zielgruppe

Historians of China and Central Asia in the 12th-13th centuries, Sino-Mongolists, Altaic philologists and anyone interested in the literature and folklore of nomadic peoples.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Rachewiltz, Igor

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Igor De Rachewiltz, Ph.D. (1961), Australian National University, is Adjunct Professor and Research Associate in the School of Culture, History and Language of that university. A leading authority on the mediaeval Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty of China he is the author of numerous publications on Sino-Mongolistics, his major work being the annotated translation of the famous 13th century epic chronicle known as the Secret
History of the Mongols (Brill, 2004, 2006).