Architecture as a Source for Local History in the Mongol Period: The Example of Warāmīn
2016 ◽
Vol 26
(1-2)
◽
pp. 215-228
AbstractThis article investigates the history of the Mongol period as seen from the provinces, looking not only through the historian's lens of written documents but also through the art historian's gaze on art and architecture. It focuses on the town of Warāmīn and its multiple shrines and shows how buildings and their furnishings, notable the extensive revetment in signed and dated lustre tiles, can be rich sources for writing history.