title: Travelling Across Late Mediaeval Eurasia: Travel, Curiosity and Knowledge in the Mongol Period
abstract: Abstract This chapter offers a new, brief yet cohesive introduction to travel across Mongol Eurasia. It is usually assumed that this period resulted in the movement of relatively large numbers of people across vast distances. However, previous studies of this period have not adequately distinguished between different types of movement within the wider Mongol sphere. This essay seeks to develop a thorough discussion of the different forms of movement in this period, by interrogating texts of trav
journal: Palgrave series in Asia and Pacific studies