Rockhill: The journey of William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world, 1253-55, as narrated by himself, with two accounts of the earlier journey of John of Pian de Carpine. His describes generally with great precision Mongol traditional culture, many features of which have survived amongst the herders one may observe today in inner Asia. Understandably, he was particularly interested in the Nestorian Christians. He provides a unique description of the Khan's palace there and abundant detail about the individuals of various ethnicities and religions whom he encountered. William had the distinction of being the first European to visit the Mongol capital of Karakorum on the Orhon River and return to write about it.
His roundtrip journey lasted the better part of three years. In 1253 he set out through the lands of the western part of their empire (what we know as the Golden Horde)-that is starting out through the southern steppes of what is now Ukraine and Russia. Rubruck then decided to undertake his own mission to the Mongols primarily in the hope of promoting their conversion to Christianity. William had participated in the crusade of King Louis IX of France to Palestine and there heard about the Mongols from friar Andrew of Longjumeau, a Dominican who had been involved in papal diplomacy aimed at trying to enlist the Mongols in the Christian crusade against the Muslims. 1270) wrote the most detailed and valuable of the early Western accounts of the Mongols. The Khan's letter to the King of FranceĪ Flemish Franciscan monk, William of Rubruck (Willem van Ruysbroeck, ca.Kumiss (fermented mare's milk, called cosmos by Rubruck).The Mongols' social and religious customs celebrations.William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols
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