Marie Favereau | |
|---|---|
| Title | Associate Professor of history |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | La horde d’or de 1377 à 1502: Aux sources d’un siècle « sans Histoire » |
| Doctoral advisor | Stéphane Viellardat |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | History of the Mongol empire |
| Institutions | Paris Nanterre University |
| Notable works | The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Harvard, 2021) |
Marie Favereau Doumenjou is a French historian and writer. She currently teaches medieval history atParis Nanterre University, and specialises in the history of theMongol Empire and Islamic history. She has published several books. Her 2021 book,The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, was published to critical acclaim, being nominated for theCundill Prize, the Prose Award in World History by theAssociation of American Publishers, and listed as a notable book of the year by several publications.
Favereau completed her undergraduate and master's degrees in history from theParis-Sorbonne University, where she also obtained a degree in Arabic language and civilization.[1] Her doctoral thesis,La horde d’or de 1377 à 1502: Aux sources d’un siècle « sans Histoire », was supervised by Stéphane Viellardat at theParis-Sorbonne University andUniversity of San Marino.[1][2] Favereau is currently an associate professor of history atParis Nanterre University,[3] and was a member of theFrench Institute of Oriental Archaeology inCairo,Egypt.[4] She previously worked as a researcher at theUniversity of Oxford from 2014 to 2019 on a project concerning nomadic empires, held a Fulbright Scholarship at theInstitute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and lectured atLeiden University from 2011 to 2014.[5]
Favereau has published several books, beginning withLa Horde D'or Et Le Sultanat Mamelouk: Naissance D'une Alliance in 2018; a history of theMamluk sultanate's alliance with theGolden Horde.[6] She then publishedLa Horde d'Or et l'islamisation des steppes eurasiatiques, which is an account of the conversion of the khansBerke andÖzbeg, and the spread of Islam amongst the Mongols.[7] In 2020, she published a children's novel about the life ofGenghis Khan, illustrated by Laurent Seigneuret.[8]
In 2021, Favereau publishedThe Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, which was described by the publisher (Harvard University Press) as "..the first comprehensive history of theHorde".[9]The Horde was a finalist for the Cundill Prize in 2021, being described by a judge,Michael Ignatieff, as a "a vividly written history on a vast canvas".[10] It was also a finalist in the world history category of the 2022 Prose Awards by theAssociation of American Publishers.[11] Several publications included it on lists of the best history and non-fiction books of 2021, including writerStephen L. Carter forThe Washington Post[12], and historianPeter Frankopan forThe Spectator.[13]
