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This bibliography is necessarily both incomplete and somewhat arbitrary. I have tried to concentrate as much as possible on works concerning the Mongol Empire; I have also tried to focus on works in English. Entries are arranged under general subject headings and contain author's name, title, publication information, ISBN or ISSN when available, and a short note about the scope and slant of the work. Some of the headings are a bit arbitrary; "Religion and Philosophy" for example also includes mythology. Entries without annotations are things I haven't seen yet.
Boyle, J.A. The Mongol World Empire 1206-1370. Variorum Reprints, Collected Studies Series. London, 1977. ISBN 0-86078-002-3. Contains reprints of a number of journal articles, including several about religious belief in practice.
Chambers, J. The Devil's Horsemen. 2nd ed. London, 1988. A popularly written narrative history of the Mongol invasion of Europe. Includes a short bibliography of primary and secondary sources. There are some nice descriptive passages.
Marshall, Robert. Storm from the East. London: BBC Books, 1993. ISBN 0-563-3633-X. The companion book to the BBC production of the same name, this is a popularly written history and very well illustrated.
Phillips, E.D. The Mongols. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969. Covers mainly the reign of Chinggis Khan and his immediate successors. Now primarily useful for its illustrations rather than any uniqueness of text.
Ratchnevsky, Paul. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
Spuler, Bertold. History of the Mongols: Based on Eastern and Western Accounts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1972.
Allsen, T.T. "Prelude to the Western Campaigns: Mongol Military Operations in Volga-Ural Region, 1217-1237." Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 3 (1983): 5-24. Attempts to look at Mongol motives and objectives (rather than consequences for subject peoples)
-----. "Guard and Government in the Reign of the Grand Qan Mongke, 1251-59." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 46 (1986): 495-521. This article investigates the patterns of recruitment and employment of civil and military officials during Mongke's reign with an eye to answering the question of how the khan curbed assaults on his power and ensured that delegated authority was not abused.
-----. Mongol Imperialism. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1987.
Chan Hok-lam. [article in China Under Mongol Rule, ed. J.D. Langlois (Princeton, 1982: 57-106)]
Dardess, J.W. "From Mongol Empire to Yuan Dynasty: Changing Forms of Imperial Rule in Mongolia and Central Asia." Monumenta Serica 30 (1972-3): 117-65.
-----. Conquerors and Confucians: Aspects of Political Change on Late Yuan China. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1973.
Franke, Herbert. From Tribal Chieftain to Universal Emperor and God: the Legitimation of the Yuan Dynasty. Sitzungsberichte der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, 1978. ISBN 3-7696-1489-5, ISSN 0342-5991. An interesting examination of the means by which the Mongol emperors were legitimated as rulers of China, concentrating especially on native Chinese ideas and the role of Buddhism in this process.
Martin, H. Desmond. "The Mongol Army." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1943): 46-85. A helpful though not detailed introduction to the Mongol army, discussing size, organisation and discipline, armaments, strategy and tactics under Chinggis Khan.
-----. The Rise of Chingis Khan and His Conquest of North China. Baltimore, 1950.
Morgan, D.O. "The Mongol Empire: A Review Article." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 44 (1981).
de Rachewiltz, Igor. "Personnel and Personalities in North China in the Early Mongol Period." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 9 (1966).
-----. "Some Remarks on the Ideological Foundations of Chingis Khan's Empire." Papers on Far Eastern History 7 (March 1973).
Serruys, H. "The Office of Tayisi in Mongolia in the Fifteenth Century." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 37 (1977): 353-80. Attempts to trace the history and functions of a shadowy but powerful office in fifteenth-century Mongolia. The term is a loan from Chinese, but its meaning seems to have drifted from the sense of the Chinese original, possibly developing a connotation of a military function.
Bawden, Charles R., trans. The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobci. Goettinger Asiatische Forshungen. Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1955.
Cleaves, F.W. "The Boy and His Elephant." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 35 (1975): 14-59. A philological discussion of an inscription in phagspa script on the East and West walls of the arch at Chu-yang kuan. The material can be a bit thick if you're not familiar with Mongolian and Chinese, but it is ultimately interesting. Includes a transliteration of a Mongolian text of the Buddhist tale of the boy and his elephant as well as two English translations from different sources.
-----., trans. Secret History of the Mongols. Cambridge, Mass., 1982.
Nakano, Miyoko. A Phonological Study in the 'Phags-pa Script and the Meng-ku tzu-yun. Canberra, 1971. Also contains biographical material on P'ags-pa Lama.
Poppe, Nicholas. The Mongol Monuments in hP'ags-pa Script. 2nd ed. Trans. by John R. Krueger. Goettinger Asiatishce Forschungen. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1957. Contains a great deal of material both on the phags-pa script and the monuments in the Mongolian language in it, including sections on orthography, phonology and morphology, as well as plates, transliterations, transcriptions and translations of the surviving Mongolian texts in phags-pa script.
-----. The Heroic Epic of the Khalkha Mongols. trans. J.R. Krueger et al. Bloomington: The Mongolia Society, 1979.
de Rachewiltz, Igor. "Some Remarks on the Dating of the Secret History of the Mongols." Monumenta Serica 24 (1965).
Serruys, H. "Catalogue of Mongolian Manuscripts from Ordos." Journal of the American Oriental Society 95 (1975): 191-208. Annotated list of Mongolian manuscripts collected by Antoine Mostaert between 1905 and 1925 in the Ordos region of Mongolia. Many of these are of material dating from after the dissolution of the Mongol Empire, but still a useful source list for serious research.
The History of the World Conqueror. Trans. by J.A. Boyle. 2 volumes. Manchester, England: University of Manchester Press, 1958. A thirteenth-century Persian history of the Mongol conquests by a man associated with the court of the khans. Boyle has include good introductory material and copious notes.
Rashid al-Din. The Successors of Genghis Khan. Trans. by J.A. Boyle. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1971.
Holmgren, J. "Observations on Marriage and Inheritance Practices in Early Mongol and Yuan Society, with Particular Reference to the Levirate." Journal of Asian History 20.2 (1986): 121-92.
Jagschid, Sechin and Paul Hyer. Mongolia's Culture and Society. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1979. ISBN 0-89158-390-4. Well-written and thorough with a good bibliography. This is the only book which attempts a full ethnographic study of the Mongol people. Concentrates more on traditional rather than historic Mongolian culture. Prof. Jagscid is himself Mongolian, which is an advantage to the book. Some of the modern political detail is of course now out of date.
Krader, L. Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkic Pastoral Nomads. Indiana University Publications Uralic and Altaic Studies. The Hague: Mouton, 1963. Arranged by tribe. Both modern and some historical material considered. Does not include all the Mongol tribes, and does include the Turkic-speaking Kazakhs. "Village law," marriage, and family are discussed, but the emphasis is on kinship structures. There are tables of kinship terms and lots of bibliography. Other volumes in the Indiana University series include texts on the grammar of various Mongol and Turkic dialects.
Rossabi, Morris. "Khubilai Khan and the Women in His Family." In Studia Sinica-Mongolica, ed. W. Bauer. Weisbaden, 1979: 158-66.
Chabros, Krystyna. "Quilted Ornamentation on Mongol Felts." Central Asiatic Journal 32 (1988): 34-60. I finally was able to get a copy of this article thanks to the kindness of a gracious lady in Missouri. Chabros provides a short survey of the tradition and techniques associated with the craft of quilting felts, and some very nice photographs of quilted felt items. Camman, S. "Mongol Costume -- Historical and Recent." In Aspects of Altaic Civilization, ed. D. Sinor. Bloomington, Ind., 1962: 157-66. Offers some corrections and clarifications to material in the Hansen book, with line drawings.
Chinese Costumes Research Group of the Shanghai School of Traditional Operas. 5000 Years of Chinese Costumes. San Francisco: China Books, 1987. The emphasis is obviously on Chinese rather than Mongolian dress, but the Yuan dynasty is covered, and there are plenty of illustrations.
Hansen, Henny Harald. Mongol Costume. repr. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994. ISBN 0-500-01585-6. Large, well-illustrated, lots of photos of actual Mongolian garments (mostly 19th-20th century). Does not discuss jewellry at all. Has the irritating habit of not always specifying in which tribe a garment originated.
Serruys, H. "Dearth of Textiles in Traditional Mongolia." Journal of Asian History 16.2 (1982): 125-40.
Wyatt, James C.Y. and Anne E. Wardwell. When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997. ISBN 0-8109-6513-5. The catalogue from an exhibit put on jointly by the Metropolitan and Cleveland Museums. Not all of the items included are of Mongol provenance, but several pieces from the Yuan dynasty are included. The photographs are generally large, clear, and in colour. The book is divided into several chapters, including sections on kesi (silk tapestry), brocades, luxury-silk weaving under the Mongols, and embroideries. Morris Rossabi contributed an essay on the silk trade, and there are glossaries of weaving and embroidery terms.
Barthold, W. and J.M. Rogers. "The Burial Rites of the Turks and the Mongols." Central Asiatic Journal 4 (1959): 195-227.
Bawden, C.R. "On the Practice of Scapulimancy among the Mongols." Central Asiatic Journal 4 (1959): 1-44.
Heissig, W. The Religions of Mongolia. Trans. by G. Samuel. London, 1980.
Hok-lam Chan and Wm Theodore de Bary, eds. Yuan Thought: Chinese Thought and Religion under the Mongols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-231-05324-X. Contains articles by different scholars on various aspects of Chinese thought and religion during the Yuan period. The papers were originally presented at a conference in Issaquah, Washington, USA, in January 1978, sponsored by the Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Jitsuzo, Tamura. "The Legend of the Origin of the Mongols and the Problem Concerning Their Migration." Acta Asiatica 24 (Tokyo, 1973): 1-19.
Moses, L.W. The Political Role of Mongol Buddhism. Bloomington, Ind., 1977.
Nassen-Bayer and K. Stuart. "Mongol Creation Stories ..." Asian Folk Studies 51 (1992): 523-34.
Young, R.F. "Deus unus or dei plures sunt? The Function of Inclusivism in the Buddhist Defense of Mongol Folk Religion Against William of Rubruck." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 26 (1989): 100-37. Starts with an introduction to the state of Mongolian folk religion and Buddhism at the time of William of Rubruck's debate with the lamas, Taoists, Moslems and others at the court of Mongke, then attempts to reconstruct and flesh out the circumstances of that debate as described by the friar. Also discusses later debates between Buddhists and Taoists sponsored by the khan and proposes some reasons why the Mongols eventually chose Buddhism over Taoism.
Allsen, T.T. "Mongol Census Taking in Rus." Ukranian Studies 5.1 (1981): 32-53.
Christian, David. History of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia.
Halperin, Charles J. Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Ostrowski, David. Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-59085-X. I haven't read this one myself yet, but there is a review available online at The Medieval Review.
Boyle, J.A. "The Il'Khans of Persia and the Princes of Europe." Central Asiatic Journal 20 (1976): 25-40.
Brooke, R.B. The Coming of the Friars. London, 1975.
Budge, E.A.W., trans. The Monks of Kubilai Khan, Emperor of China. London, 1928.
Burnett, Charles, and Patrick Gautier Dalche. "Attitudes towards the Mongols in Medieval Literature: The XII Kings of Gog and Magog from the Court of Frederick II to Jean de Mandeville." Viator 22 (1991): 153-67.
Dawson, Christopher, ed. The Mongol Mission: Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. trans. by a nun of Stanbrook Abbey. London: Sheed and Ward, 1955. This book contains translations of the writings of William of Rubruck, John of Plano Carpini and Benedict the Pole, as well as several letters from other missionaries, two bulls of Innocent IV, and the letter of Guyuk Khan to Innocent IV. Introductory material and notes are provided, but the explanations of historical events tend to be rather simplistic. Transcriptions of Mongol names and terms are usually archaic, if not misleading, as for example the persistent use of "cosmos" in place of "comos," "koumiss," or other transliteration. However, it is a single volume with translations of a number of important sources not available elsewhere.
Guzman, Gregory G. "Reports of Mongol Cannibalism in Thirteenth-Century Latin Sources: Oriental Fact or Western Fiction?" In Discovering New Worlds edited by Scott Westrem. New York: Garland, 1991. 31-68.
Jackson, Peter, ed. and trans. The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Mongke 1253-1255. Hakluyt Society 2nd series 173. London, 1990. ISBN 0-904180-29-8, ISSN 0072-9396. Really well done translation, with excellent bibliography and notes. William of Rubruck was an excellent observer and included much detail of everyday Mongol life in the thirteenth century.
-----. "The Crusade Against the Mongols (1241)." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42 (1991): 1-18. Narrative and analysis of the European response (or lack thereof) to the Mongol incursions in Europe.
Meyvaert, P. "An Unknown Letter of Hulagu, Il-Khan of Persia, to King Louis IX of France." Viator 11 (1980): 245-59. An edition of the Latin text of the letter and commentary. No translation, but there is a plate of the manuscript pages.
Morgan, D. "The Mongols in Syria, 1260-1300." In Crusade and Settlement. Ed. P.W. Edbury. (Cardiff, 1985)
-----. "The Mongols and the Eastern Mediterranean." MHR 4.1 (June 1989): 198-211. Focuses on 13th- and 14th-century materials. Points out that while the Mongols never became a naval power on the Med., their influence was still felt. Attention is paid especially to Byzantine and Ilkhanate relations.
Olschki, L. Guillaume Boucher: A French Artist at the Court of the Khans. Baltimore, 1946.
de Rachewiltz, Igor. Papal Envoys to the Great Khans. London, 1971.
Richard, J. "The Mongols and the Franks." Journal of Asian History 3 (1969).
Richard, Jean. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. trans. Janet Shirley. Amsterdam, 1979.
Rockhill, W.W. ed, and trans. The Journal of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-1255, as narrated by himself with two accounts of the earlier journey of John of Pian de Carpini. Hakluyt Society 2nd series IV. London, 1900. Largely superseded now by Jackson's translation. Rockhill's translation is based on an early and badly flawed edition of the Latin text, and is further impaired by archaizing language. Rockhill did have the advantage of having travelled extensively in Central Asia and knew his material when it came to the steppe nomads.
Ronay, Gabriel. The Tartar Khan's Englishman. London: Cassell, 1978. ISBN 0-304-30054-3. Traces the career of the mysterious Englishman who served first Chinggis Khan and then Batu, and argues for an identification with a banished chaplain associated with the 1215 Magna Carta uprising. Ronay's attitude toward the Mongols tends to be negative, and the documentation is scanty. A good read if you enjoy detective novels, but this book doesn't belong on the non-fiction shelves.
Sinor, D. Inner Asia and Its Contacts with Medieval Europe. Variorum Reprints, Collected Studies Series. London, 1977. ISBN 0-86078-001-5. Contains reprints of articles in French and English concerned with either defining Inner Asia as a cultural concept or with some aspects of the relationship between the Mongols and mediaeval Europe. These sound like rather huge areas, but Sinor concentrates on fairly narrow aspects in each article, for example the horse and pasture or economic aspects of hunting.
-----. "Pray to God on my behalf that He give me such intelligence that I can learn fast and well your languages: Medieval Interpreters and Inner Asia." Journal of Popular Culture 16 (Summer 1982): 176-84.
Van den Wyngaert, A., ed. Sinica Franciscana, I. Itinera et relationes Fratrum Minorum saeculi XIII et XIV. (Quaracchi-Firenze, 1929). Edition of the Latin text of Rubruck and others; base text of Dawson's and Jackson's translations.
Vogelin, Eric. "The Mongol Letters of Submission to European Powers." Byzantion 15 (1941-42): 378-413. Sketches chronology of European missions and arrival of Mongol emissaries, critiques previous scholarship on the letters and attempts to analyse the juridical nature and "constitutional theory" set forth in the Khan's letters. Voegelin has an axe to grind against all the philological commentary and the lack of attention paid to the content of the letters, and argues that the letters are legal documents "revealing essential features of Mongol public law and political ideas" and are not primitive but show "remarkable juridical technique"
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