Description: Expands the study of the Crisis of the Fourteenth Century beyond its conventional Eurocentric focus.
Brief description: Nicola Di Cosmo is Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA). He studies the relations between China and Inner Asia from the first millennium BCE to the early modern period. He has published on the connections between climate, environment, and politics in the history of steppe empires. Among his recent publications are the co-authored book Venice and the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange that Transformed the Medieval World (Princeton 2026), and the co-edited works Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran and the Steppe (Cambridge 2018) and Rebel Economies: Warlords. Insurgents, Humanitarians (Lanham 2021).