Tamta's World
Subtitle: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 18, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781107167568
Description: This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noble woman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to nephews of Saladin, after her father was captured during a siege. She was later raped and then married by the Khwarazmshah and held hostage by the Mongols, before being made an independent ruler in eastern Anatolia under them. Her tale stretches from the Mediterranean to Mongolia and reveals the extraordinary connections across continents and cultures that one woman could experience. Without a voice of her own surviving monuments - monasteries and mosques, caravanserais and palaces - build up a picture of Tamta's world and the roles women played in it. It explores how women's identities changed between different courts, with shifting languages, religions and cultures, and between their roles as daughters, wives, mothers and widows.
Notes: Source title: Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia