The Mongols and the West, 1221-1410.(THE MIDDLE EAST, ASIA)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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2004-059429

0-582-36896-0

The Mongols and the west, 1221-1410.

Jackson, Peter. (The medieval world)

Longman, [c]2005

414 p.

$26.00 (pa)

Jackson (medieval history, Keele U.) explains how Christian Europe was threatened by the invasion from the steppe in the 1240s, as demonstrate...

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