Peter Jackson (historian)
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Peter Jackson FBA is a British scholar and historian, specializing in the Crusades, particularly the contacts between the Europeans and the Mongols as well as medieval Muslim India. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Keele University and editor of The Cambridge History of Iran: The Timurid and Safavid Periods.
Mongol archers in Compendium of Chronicles of Rashiduldin Hamadani (BnF. MS. Supplément Persan 1113. 1430-1434 AD). Depicted on cover of Mongols and the West by Peter Jackson
William of Rubruck
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William of Rubruck or Guillaume de Rubrouck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer.
Voyage of William of Rubruck in 1253–1255
An initial from a 14th-century copy of the manuscript. The upper portion shows William of Rubruck and his travelling companion receiving a commission from Louis IX of France. The lower portion shows the two friars on their journey.