Parution : Paul D. Wordsworth, Moving in the Margins: Desert Travel and Power in Medieval Central Asia, Brill, 2024

Moving in the Margins: Desert Travel and Power in Medieval Central Asia Author: Paul D. Wordsworth Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies, Volume: 32 Central Asia has been perceived as a landscape of connections, of Silk Roads; an endless plain across which waves of conquerors swiftly rode on horseback. In reality the region is highly fragmented and difficult to traverse, and overcoming these obstacles led to routes becoming associated with epi...