On Wednesday, November 5, we hosted a workshop on the history of Mongols in western Eurasia. After an introduction from PhD candidate Jack Wilson, Prof. Jozsef Laszlovszky gave an overview of the ways in which the Mongol invasion of Hungary can be seen in the historical record. He highlighted problems with recreating routes of travel and movements of individuals from surviving narrative and archaeological sources. Prof. Laszlovszky was followed by PhD candidate Bernat Racz. Bernat's talk focused on the evidence for Mongol invasions within liturgical material culture, including his ongoing research on a Mosan phylacetery found in the ruins of Pétermonostora. Norbert Orban then spoke about the Cuman's and how they were perceived by the inhabitants of medieval Hungary.
After lunch, we heard Jack Wilson discussing the impact of climatic change on the Golden Horde. The presentations ended with Elias Harth summarising his PhD research on the Golden Horde in the late middle ages. These talks were followed by a book launch, discussing recent publications on the Mongols in Europe. This included Bernat Racz's newly published The Twelfth-Century Mosan Reliquary of Pétermonostora.