A01=Roman Hautala
Author_Roman Hautala
Category=NHF
Central Asia
Christianity
Eastern Europe
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Eurasia
forthcoming
Islam
Ivan the Terrible
Kazakhstan
Medieval history
medieval trade
Mongol Empire
nomadic states
nomads
Rus' people
steppe
Ukrainian history
Product details
- ISBN 9781836392767
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Golden Horde was a powerful nomadic state that shaped Eastern Europe and modern-day Kazakhstan from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. Masters of the Earth traces its rise within the Mongol Empire, its period of independence and prosperity and its eventual decline in the face of continual civil conflict. Roman Hautala introduces the administrative and ethnic structures of the Horde, its religious policies and its wide-ranging commercial ties with both East and West. The Golden Horde emerges not only as a military force but as a dynamic society whose influence reached far beyond the steppe. Understanding this history offers a richer sense of Eurasia’s past and the connections that shaped it.
Roman Hautala is Docent in the Department of History at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is the author of Crusaders, Missionaries and Eurasian Nomads in the 13th–14th Centuries (2017) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe (2021).
