Colleen Ho Workshop
Colleen Ho Workshop
On Wednesday March 12th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Professor Colleen Ho will be presenting a paper titled "The Mongols in Matthew Paris' Chronica Majora: A Mirror of Medieval Europe."
History Department faculty and students are encouraged to attend this workshop. Light refreshments will be served.
Professor Ho's dissertation (UC Santa Barbara, 2013), titled "A Sign of the Apocalypse or Christendom's Ally? European-Mongol Relations in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries," examines why medieval Europeans saw the Mongols as both threat and ally, allowing ecclesiastics and kings to condemn the Mongols to Hell while courting an alliance with them against mutual enemies. She is revising the dissertation for publication and writing an article on travel narratives by thirteenth century Franciscan visitors to Mongol China.
2012 History Compass article by Professor Ho
2013 Comitatus book review by Professor Ho