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Michael Hope, « Matthieu Chochoy. De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan. Construction et déconstruction de l’idée d’empire tartare en France du XVIe siècle à la fin du XVIIIe siècle », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.55336
This book examines the Tartar empire as a case study for the production and transmission of knowledge in 16th-18th century Europe. Beginning in the 1640s, Matthieu Chochoy follows the evolution of a French school of Orientalism focusing upon the Tartars, the nomadic people of the defunct Mongol empire. He shows that intellectual and social shifts inside France (such as the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, and Colonialism) shaped knowledge of this ephemeral and largely imagined commun...