Marie Favereau is Associate Professor of History at Paris Nanterre University. She has been a member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a research associate at the University of Oxford for the major project Nomadic Empires. Her books include The Golden Horde and the Mamluk Sultanate (published in French) and the graphic novel Gengis Khan.
Marie Favereau will give an eloquent and definitive portrait of an empire little understood and too readily dismissed. Challenging conceptions of nomads as peripheral to history, the Mongols will emerge not just as conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in history.