Speculum Spotlight: East–West Encounters in the 14th Century: John of Marignolli and the "Tribute" Horse
- mmapodcast1
- Oct 1
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In this episode, Nancy Wu talks with Loren Cantrell about her article in Speculum 100:4, "East–West Encounters in the Fourteenth Century: John of Marignolli and the 'Tribute' Horse." Wu's article examines different understandings of a visit in 1342 by the Franciscan John of Marignolli to the court of the Mongol Khan Toghon Temür in China—how the gift of the horse from the friar to the Mongol Khan came about, how it was received in fourteenth-century China, and how the gift intersected with more than 1,500 years of the Chinese notion of the 'heavenly horse' and the tributary system.
Nancy Wu is Educator Emerita for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Loren Cantrell is a series producer for The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast and a PhD candidate in the Department of French at the University of Virginia.
Logan Quigley is a series producer for The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast.