the Jackmeister: Mongol History
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Writes about the Mongol Empire. Doing a PhD and Youtube videos on them.
5/ ...and have given her a ‘lotus flower diadem,’ which commonly adorns the heads of upper-class women in the art of the Seljūqs and their successor states before the Mongol conquest.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
5/ ...and have given her a ‘lotus flower diadem,’ which commonly adorns the heads of upper-class women in the art of the Seljūqs and their successor states before the Mongol conquest.
4/ The scene here depicts f.23/22a. The lady Gulšāh is disguised as a man, and in this scene with her lance kills her lover’s rival, Rabī‘ ibn ‘Adnān. Yet the artists still wished to mark it clear she was a woman...
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
4/ The scene here depicts f.23/22a. The lady Gulšāh is disguised as a man, and in this scene with her lance kills her lover’s rival, Rabī‘ ibn ‘Adnān. Yet the artists still wished to mark it clear she was a woman...
3/ ...Baḥrī Mamlūks), designs that don’t show yet the influence of the advent of Mongols. Thus, even though the characters are in origin Arabic, and the poem written by a Persian, the visual culture we see here is one associated with the Seljūq Turks.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
3/ ...Baḥrī Mamlūks), designs that don’t show yet the influence of the advent of Mongols. Thus, even though the characters are in origin Arabic, and the poem written by a Persian, the visual culture we see here is one associated with the Seljūq Turks.
2/ ...in Konya in the Seljūq Sultanate of Rūm. With 71 illustrations, the MS (Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Hazine 841) was an expensive production, and an excellent resource for equipment and clothing of the late-Seljūqs (importance influence on the Ayyūbids, Khẉārezmšāhs and...
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
2/ ...in Konya in the Seljūq Sultanate of Rūm. With 71 illustrations, the MS (Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Hazine 841) was an expensive production, and an excellent resource for equipment and clothing of the late-Seljūqs (importance influence on the Ayyūbids, Khẉārezmšāhs and...
1/ A depiction of this scene from the famous Warqa wa Gulšāh manuscript. A romance written by the 11th century Persian poet ʿAyyūqī, it tells the story of a pair of doomed lovers, Warqa and the lady Gulšāh. The manuscript above is dated to the 13th century, and likely produced...
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
1/ A depiction of this scene from the famous Warqa wa Gulšāh manuscript. A romance written by the 11th century Persian poet ʿAyyūqī, it tells the story of a pair of doomed lovers, Warqa and the lady Gulšāh. The manuscript above is dated to the 13th century, and likely produced...
New paper by me with some opinions on the origins of the Second Mongol Invasion of Hungary, 1285. Link in the comments below!
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New paper by me with some opinions on the origins of the Second Mongol Invasion of Hungary, 1285. Link in the comments below!
Nonetheless, if you didn't know any better it would all sound convincing enough. It also made up podcast appearances I did and reviews of my work by Peter Jackson and others. All nonsense.
September 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Nonetheless, if you didn't know any better it would all sound convincing enough. It also made up podcast appearances I did and reviews of my work by Peter Jackson and others. All nonsense.
Was curious to see if Grok, the Twitter AI monster, could tell me what articles I have published. It gave me this; none of these are real, and two of them at best sound similar to things I have published (but are still wrong in name or details).
September 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Was curious to see if Grok, the Twitter AI monster, could tell me what articles I have published. It gave me this; none of these are real, and two of them at best sound similar to things I have published (but are still wrong in name or details).
Just seeing this now, haven't been on Blue Sky for a few days. Not sure what to make of it but doubt it's a crossbow; see how the string runs in between the frame, which would not work well for any projectile. Unlikely to be a weapon, but not sure what it is
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Just seeing this now, haven't been on Blue Sky for a few days. Not sure what to make of it but doubt it's a crossbow; see how the string runs in between the frame, which would not work well for any projectile. Unlikely to be a weapon, but not sure what it is
I put the guy on foot mostly because I didn't feel like drawing the horse.
It's expressed in a few accounts that Jurchen men preferred to wear white (see Jin Shi, juan 43), though I do not believe we have any clear artistic depictions of this in extant artwork from the Jin or Song Dynasties
It's expressed in a few accounts that Jurchen men preferred to wear white (see Jin Shi, juan 43), though I do not believe we have any clear artistic depictions of this in extant artwork from the Jin or Song Dynasties
August 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I put the guy on foot mostly because I didn't feel like drawing the horse.
It's expressed in a few accounts that Jurchen men preferred to wear white (see Jin Shi, juan 43), though I do not believe we have any clear artistic depictions of this in extant artwork from the Jin or Song Dynasties
It's expressed in a few accounts that Jurchen men preferred to wear white (see Jin Shi, juan 43), though I do not believe we have any clear artistic depictions of this in extant artwork from the Jin or Song Dynasties
Jurchen swordsman, based on some Da Jin Dynasty 大金 (1115-1234) armour and weapons. These pieces in the photograph may not have originally gone together as one set, but it was fun to do so anyways, especially this zhanamdao (?) styled sword, and the Hannibal Lector-esque facemask...
August 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Jurchen swordsman, based on some Da Jin Dynasty 大金 (1115-1234) armour and weapons. These pieces in the photograph may not have originally gone together as one set, but it was fun to do so anyways, especially this zhanamdao (?) styled sword, and the Hannibal Lector-esque facemask...
Got reminded of this fun depiction of the battle of 'Ayn Jalut, which depicts the Mamluks as Ancient Egyptians and the Pyramids in the background (the battle was fought north of Jerusalem, not in Egypt!). However, it is no longer on the Wikipedia article for the battle, which is a plus.
August 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Got reminded of this fun depiction of the battle of 'Ayn Jalut, which depicts the Mamluks as Ancient Egyptians and the Pyramids in the background (the battle was fought north of Jerusalem, not in Egypt!). However, it is no longer on the Wikipedia article for the battle, which is a plus.
Note the nice depictions of Jurchen bianfa 辮髮 hair styles
August 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Note the nice depictions of Jurchen bianfa 辮髮 hair styles
Link to the user's original post: x.com/Peng201912/s...
August 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Link to the user's original post: x.com/Peng201912/s...
Uploaded by user "Peng" on Twitter on 03.06.21, the single best scan I have ever come across of the Jin-era "Lady Wenji's Return to Han" 文姬歸漢圖, perhaps the single best surviving artistic depiction of Jurchen clothing
August 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Uploaded by user "Peng" on Twitter on 03.06.21, the single best scan I have ever come across of the Jin-era "Lady Wenji's Return to Han" 文姬歸漢圖, perhaps the single best surviving artistic depiction of Jurchen clothing
Jurchen Jin Dynasty (大金) elites. Don't remember what I made them for originally, probably my heavy cavalry series. The Mongol Empire reused a lot of former Jin equipment and it had heavy influence on their later styles.
August 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jurchen Jin Dynasty (大金) elites. Don't remember what I made them for originally, probably my heavy cavalry series. The Mongol Empire reused a lot of former Jin equipment and it had heavy influence on their later styles.
Response I added to a Twitter thread on average age of marriages in the Middle Ages and the common stereotype that it was always very young women marrying much older men.
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Most of Chinggis Khan's daughters with Börte were likely married off in their mid- to late- twenties.
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Most of Chinggis Khan's daughters with Börte were likely married off in their mid- to late- twenties.
July 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Response I added to a Twitter thread on average age of marriages in the Middle Ages and the common stereotype that it was always very young women marrying much older men.
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Most of Chinggis Khan's daughters with Börte were likely married off in their mid- to late- twenties.
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Most of Chinggis Khan's daughters with Börte were likely married off in their mid- to late- twenties.
3/ Not being a descendant of Khubilai's son Jinggim, though, proved a hurdle to his claim; he and Buluqan were arrested by his cousin Ayurbarwada when he stormed the capital of Daidu, and died in prison.
July 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
3/ Not being a descendant of Khubilai's son Jinggim, though, proved a hurdle to his claim; he and Buluqan were arrested by his cousin Ayurbarwada when he stormed the capital of Daidu, and died in prison.
1/ Ananda, Muslim grandson of Khubilai Khan. Described by Rashīd al-Dīn as "swarthy with a black beard, tall and corpulent," (RD/Boyle 325-326), Ananda was a son of Manggala and assigned to govern the lands of the former Tangut Kingdom.
July 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
1/ Ananda, Muslim grandson of Khubilai Khan. Described by Rashīd al-Dīn as "swarthy with a black beard, tall and corpulent," (RD/Boyle 325-326), Ananda was a son of Manggala and assigned to govern the lands of the former Tangut Kingdom.
Esen-Buqa Khan (r.1310-1318) and Kebek Khan (r.1309, 1318-1326). Sons of Du'a Khan (r.1282-1307) of the Chaghadai Khanate. Lead the Chaghadai Khanate in a series of rather unsuccessful wars against the Ilkhanate and Yuan Dynasty over the 1310s and early 1320s.
July 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Esen-Buqa Khan (r.1310-1318) and Kebek Khan (r.1309, 1318-1326). Sons of Du'a Khan (r.1282-1307) of the Chaghadai Khanate. Lead the Chaghadai Khanate in a series of rather unsuccessful wars against the Ilkhanate and Yuan Dynasty over the 1310s and early 1320s.
1/ Toqtamish Khan's sack of Moscow, 1382. Two years after the supposed "end" of Jochid rule over the Rus' Principalities. The importance of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, where Dmitri Ivanovich of Moscow (later Donskoi) defeated the general Mamai is greatly overstated...
#mongolsky #tengri #moscow
#mongolsky #tengri #moscow
July 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
1/ Toqtamish Khan's sack of Moscow, 1382. Two years after the supposed "end" of Jochid rule over the Rus' Principalities. The importance of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, where Dmitri Ivanovich of Moscow (later Donskoi) defeated the general Mamai is greatly overstated...
#mongolsky #tengri #moscow
#mongolsky #tengri #moscow
10/ The word may be attested even in use among the Khitans centuries earlier, where a Tang Dynasty author records a Khitan idu’an being captured by Türk forces and later escaping with news of the death of the Türk Qaghan, Bilge Khan’s (d.734) successor.
July 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
10/ The word may be attested even in use among the Khitans centuries earlier, where a Tang Dynasty author records a Khitan idu’an being captured by Türk forces and later escaping with news of the death of the Türk Qaghan, Bilge Khan’s (d.734) successor.
7/ “They [the Mongols] pay great attention to divinations, auguries, soothsayings, sorceries and incantations, and when they receive an answer from the demons they believe that a god is speaking to them. This God they call Itoga − the Comans however call him Kam − and they have...
July 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
7/ “They [the Mongols] pay great attention to divinations, auguries, soothsayings, sorceries and incantations, and when they receive an answer from the demons they believe that a god is speaking to them. This God they call Itoga − the Comans however call him Kam − and they have...