!!Marie Favereau - Biography
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After successfully presenting her doctoral thesis « La Horde d’Or de 1377 à 1502 : aux sources d’un siècle “sans histoire” » at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne in 2004, Marie Favereau embarked on a prestigious international career that would take her to Cairo, Princeton, Leiden, Oxford, Nanterre and Bishkek.\\
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The originality of her research lies in that it focuses not on Chinggis Khan (or Genghis Khan) and on the states founded, after his death in 1227, by the Yuan in China or by the Ilkhans in the Middle East, but on the Golden Horde of Jochi (or Djötchi), the conqueror's eldest son, an empire that lasted between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, and included Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria and the Ukraine. For Marie Favereau, the longevity of this empire is linked to the constantly changing power structure, in line with the nomadic lifestyle of the Mongols. The conquests initiated by Chinggis Khan in the thirteenth century allowed the Mongols to integrate the world around them into their empire. Favereau  focuses on the Horde : a new social and economic model that was to impose itself and evolve over three centuries to unify under its aegis a space divided today between Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe. In this space, the « people of the steppes » created institutions that transformed the balance of power between local hierarchies and stimulated the development of cities. They worked to develop the economy and, through their trade-oriented diplomacy, their influence extended along the northern routes far beyond their borders. Their khans dominated the Russian princes and the Turkish begs, resisted the great plague and adapted to the shifting geopolitics of the fifteenth century.\\
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More generally, Marie Favereau highlights the historical role of nomads, long reduced to the cliché of the invader plundering wealth, ransacking crops and slaughtering entire populations. Breaking with the conventional vision of the Mongol Empire, she shows that the Horde was able to set up a mobile and sophisticated administration, capable of making religious communities cohabit in their diversity. The Mongols profoundly reshaped the Slavic space, contributed to the flourishing of Islam and forged new alliances with the Mamluks, Lithuanians, Poles, Italians and Germans. They were at the origin of one of the first globalizations.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit mfavereau}][{ALLOW upload mfavereau}][{ALLOW comment All}]