eurasia

Regional artistic traditions had been manipulated and transformed into new hybrids that could demonstrate the ruler’s energy to the nomadic elite and to the multi-cultural urban populations under their manage. These operates reveal an evolving political structure and social order. The course examines how meanings are encoded by means of language, forms, and aesthetic features, how they are produced legible, and how they may well function as propaganda. With Yesügei dead, the remainder of the clan, led by the rival Taychiut family, abandoned his widow, Höelün, and her children, thinking of them too weak to physical exercise leadership and seizing...