Чингисхан. Человек, завоевавший мир

61; Eric Haenisch, Die Geheime Geschichte p. 112; Elena Skubuik, ‘Buryat,’ in Hahnunen, Mongolian Languages pp. 102–128; Lincoln, Conquest pp. 51–52; West, Encyclopedia (2009) pp. 132–133. Travellers’ tales on the Buriyat include Sharon Hudgins, ‘Feasting with the Buriats of Southern Siberia,’ in Walker, Food on the Move pp. 136–156; Curtin, A Journey; Matthiessen, Baikal.

160

Rashid’s date of 1155 was followed by the early twentieth-century Russian historians Vladimirtsov and Barthold.

Pelliot, always a contrarian, proposes the impossibly late date of 1167 (Pelliot, Notes sur Marco Polo i pp. 281–288). But the best authorities such as Rachewiltz and Ratchnevsky plump for 1162. See the detailed argumentation in Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan pp. 17–19; Rachewiltz, Commentary pp. 320–321.

161

Rachewiltz, Commentary pp. 269, 272, 322–324.

162

SHC p. 14; Pelliot, Notes sur Marco Polo i pp. 288–289; Dunnell, Chinggis Khan p. 21 remarks that this was apt for a child of destiny.

163

Rachewiltz, Commentary p. 322.

164

RT i p. 135; Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp. 171–175.

165

RT i p. 106; Gumilev, Imaginary Kingdom p. 142. For the game of knucklebones they played see Jean-Paul Roux, ‘A propos des osselets de Gengis Khan,’ in Heissig et al, Tractata Altaica pp. 557–568. Cf also F. N. David, Games, Gods and Gambling p. 2.

166

Vladimirtsov Le regime social op.

cit. p. 76; Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes p. 232; Wittfogel & Feng, Liao p. 239.

167

Ratchnevsky, ‘La condition de la femme mongole au 12/13е siecle,’ in Heissig et al, Tractata Altaica pp. 509–530.

168

Togan, ‘The Qongrat in History/ in-Pfeiffer & Quinn, History and Historiography pp. 61–83; Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp. 393, 402–405; Wittfogel & Feng, Liao pp. 92, 634.

169

SHC p. 15; SHW p. 243; Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp.

423–429.

170

Togan, ‘The Qongrat in History/ p. 74.

171

Henry Serruys, ‘Two Remarkable Women in Mongolia,’ Asia Major 19 (1957) pp. 191–245.

172

Mostaert, Sur quelques passages pp. 10–12.

173

SHC p. 17.

174

Riasanovsky, Fundamental Principles p. 239.

175

Zhao, Marriage as Political Strategy p. 4.

176

SHR p. 14; Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan p. 14.