Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 1739
E-Mail:	m.f.favereau@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Algemene Geschiedenis
Office Address:	Binnenstadcomplex Rapenburg 38 2311 EX Leiden Room number 1.02

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Fields of interest

• Central Asian Medieval History
• History of the Jochid dynasties (Golden Horde)
• Mamluk Sultanate
• Oriental diplomatics (chancellery documents, diplomatic letters, archives)
• Trade and diplomacy within the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the East-European areas (13th-16th C.)
• Eurasian Empires
• Russian History

Research

I am currently involved in the Eurasian Empires Program as a Post-doc. In my research project, I am exploring the relationships between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Golden Horde(14th -16th Centuries).

Teaching activities

While my position at Leiden University is a research position, these are some of the courses I have taught in the past:

• Arabic Language for Historians (Lyon II)
• Medieval History (Lyon II)
• Methodology for PhD Students (Cairo)

Curriculum vitae

Education
2000 MA History (La Sorbonne-Paris IV)
2001 BA Arabic studies (La Sorbonne-Paris IV)
2000-2004 PhD Medieval History (La Sorbonne-Paris IV)
2001-2004 PhD History (Università di San Marino)

Employment
2001-2004 Phd-Fellow (Università di San Marino)
2005-2009 Researcher (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology - Cairo)
2009-2010 Fulbright scholar (IAS - Princeton)
2011-2015 Post-doc researcher (Leiden University)

Key publications

2008
« Comment le sultan mamlouk s'adressait au khan de la Horde d'Or. Formulaire des lettres et règles d'usage d'après trois manuels de chancellerie (1262-v.1430) », Annales Islamologiques 41, 2008, p.59-95.

2009
« K voprosu ob al'janse mezhdu Zolotoj Ordoj i Mamljukskim sultanatom po arabskim istochnikam», in Zolotoordynskoe nasledie. Materialy Mezhdunarodnoj naychnoj konferencii « Politicheskaja i social'no-e-konomicheskaja istorija Zolotoj Ordy (XIII-XV vv.) », Kazan, 2009, p.46-54.
« Il Khanato dell'Orda d'oro », in Encyclomedia - Il Medioevo (dir. Umberto Eco), Motta Editore, 2009, p. 337-347.
« Mai 1393 : Lettre du khan de la Horde d'Or Toqtamish à Wladislaw II Jagellon, roi de Pologne », in Histoire du monde au XVème siècle, dir. P.Boucheron, Fayard, 2009, p. 285-290.

Forthcoming
Premiers échanges entre la Horde d'Or et le sultanat mamelouk : Naissance d'une alliance politique, commerciale et militaire (660/1261 - 661/1263), Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Le Caire.