Tamta's World
The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia
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Word Count
115,000 words, Guess
Page Count
460 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101107167566
- ISBN-139781107167568
- Library of Congress Control Number2016052045
- OCLC Control Number971333361
- Better World Books9781107167568
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28263606M
Classifications
- LCCBP172.E37 2018
- LCCBP172 .E37 2017
Description
This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noble woman 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 in eastern Anatolia under them. 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. It 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.
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- Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia
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