Marie Favereau
{{Short description|French historian}}
{{Infobox academic
| image =
| alma_mater = Paris-Sorbonne University
| thesis_title = La horde d’or de 1377 à 1502: Aux sources d’un siècle « sans Histoire »
| doctoral_advisor = Stéphane Viellardat
| discipline = History
| sub_discipline = History of the Mongol empire
| notable_works = The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Harvard, 2021)
| workplaces = Paris Nanterre University
| titles = Associate Professor of history
}}
Marie Favereau Doumenjou is a French historian and writer. She currently teaches medieval history at Paris Nanterre University, and specialises in the history of the Mongol 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 the Cundill Prize, the Prose Award in World History by the Association of American Publishers, and listed as a notable book of the year by several publications.
Career
Favereau completed her undergraduate and master's degrees in history from the Paris-Sorbonne University, where she also obtained a degree in Arabic language and civilization.{{Cite web |title=FAVEREAU Marie / Site officiel de l'UMR Orient & Méditerranée (Paris) |url=https://www.orient-mediterranee.com/spip.php?article3472&lang=fr |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.orient-mediterranee.com}} Her doctoral thesis, La horde d’or de 1377 à 1502: Aux sources d’un siècle « sans Histoire », was supervised by Stéphane Viellardat at the Paris-Sorbonne University and University of San Marino.{{Cite journal |last=Favereau |first=Marie |date=2005 |title=La Horde d'or de 1377 à 1502 : aux sources d'un siècle « sans histoire » |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2005_num_76_2_6956 |journal=Revue des Études Slaves |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=357–360}} Favereau is currently an associate professor of history at Paris Nanterre University,{{Cite web |last=Marie Favereau doumenjou |first=Favereau |title=MME Marie FAVEREAU DOUMENJOU, FAVEREAU |url=https://www.parisnanterre.fr/mme-marie-favereau-doumenjou-favereau |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Université |language=fr-FR}} and was a member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology.{{Cite web |title=The Horde — Marie Favereau |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674278653 |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.hup.harvard.edu |language=en}} She previously worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford from 2014 to 2019 on a project concerning nomadic empires, held a Fulbright Scholarship at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and lectured at Leiden University from 2011 to 2014.{{Cite web |title=FAVEREAU DOUMENJOU Marie |url=https://rdv-histoire.com/intervenants/favereau-doumenjou-marie |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Les Rendez-vous de l'histoire |language=fr}}
Writing
Favereau has published several books, beginning with La Horde D'or Et Le Sultanat Mamelouk: Naissance D'une Alliance in 2018; a history of the Mamluk sultanate's alliance with the Golden Horde.{{Cite book |url=https://www.decitre.fr/livres/la-horde-d-or-et-le-sultanat-mamelouk-9782724707182.html |title=La Horde d'or et le sultanat mamelouk. Naissance d'une alliance - Marie Favereau |language=fr}} She then published La Horde d'Or et l'islamisation des steppes eurasiatiques, which is an account of the conversion of the khans Berke and Özbeg, and the spread of Islam amongst the Mongols.{{Cite web |title=La Horde d'Or et l'islamisation des steppes eurasiatiques {{!}} Presses Universitaires |url=https://presses-universitaires.univ-amu.fr/horde-dor-lislamisation-steppes-eurasiatiques |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=presses-universitaires.univ-amu.fr}} In 2020, she published a children's novel about the life of Genghis Khan, illustrated by Laurent Seigneuret.{{Cite web |title=La Horde d'or - les héritiers de Gengis Khan - achat livres {{!}} Lireka |url=https://www.lireka.com/fr/pp/9782918098164-la-horde-dor-les-heritiers-de-gengis-khan |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.lireka.com |language=fr}}
In 2021, Favereau published The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, which was described by the publisher (Harvard University Press) as "..the first comprehensive history of the Horde".{{Cite web |title=The Horde — Marie Favereau |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244214 |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.hup.harvard.edu |language=en}} 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".{{Cite web |last=Design |first=Here |date=2022-09-21 |title=The Cundill History Prize |url=https://www.cundillprize.com/2021finalists |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Cundill Prize |language=en}} It was also a finalist in the world history category of the 2022 Prose Awards by the Association of American Publishers.{{Cite web |title=ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS ANNOUNCES FINALISTS AND CATEGORY WINNERS FOR 2022 PROSE AWARDS |url=https://publishers.org/news/association-of-american-publishers-announces-finalists-and-category-winners-for-2022-prose-awards/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=AAP |date=25 January 2022 |language=en-US}} Several publications included it on lists of the best history and non-fiction books of 2021, including writer Stephen L. Carter for The Washington Post{{Cite news |last=Carter |first=Stephen L. |date=18 December 2021 |title=The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-15-best-nonfiction-books-of-2021/2021/12/18/9aff7c4e-600b-11ec-b1ef-cb78be717f0e_story.html}}, and historian Peter Frankopan for The Spectator.{{Cite web |last=Spectator |first=The |title=Books of the year II — a further selection of the books chosen by our regular reviewers {{!}} The Spectator |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/books-of-the-year-ii-a-further-selection-of-the-books-chosen-by-our-regular-reviewers |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.spectator.co.uk |date=18 November 2021 |language=en-GB}}
Publications
- (2014) La Horde d’Or. Les héritiers de Gengis Khan, Paris, éditions de la Flandonnière, 2014
- (2018) La Horde d’Or et le sultanat mamelouk. Naissance d’une alliance, (Cairo, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale) {{ISBN|2724707184|978-2724707182}}
- (2018) La Horde d'Or et l'islamisation des steppes eurasiatiques (Presses Universitaires de Provence, Aix-en-Provence) {{ISBN|9791032001820}}
- (2020) La Horde d'or - les héritiers de Gengis Khan (Petit à petit, [Rouen], DL 2020) (illustrated by Laurent Seigneuret) {{ISBN|9782918098164}}
- (2021) The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Harvard University Press)
- (2023) La Horde, comment les Mongols ont changé le monde ? (Paris, Perrin)
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