Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.

To sort of give you an idea of the weird stuff I'm into, here's a post I did about stories written in the Medieval Silk Road that feature women and are available in English:

Stories About Women from the Medieval Silk Road and Available in English

The Silk Road had men and women of all walks of life. It also was one of history's most literate eras and places, prior to the modern age. One of the reasons that we know that is from the stories they told and recorded on a wide range of material. These stories were not always…

Women Along the Silk Road (mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.com)

On this, anyone else into weird and obscure histories?

#intro #history #historicalFiction #silkroad #womenshistory #books #introduction

@mariam_al_masri_author I admit I'd never thought about this bit of history much, but now that you mention it, it sounds pretty interesting.
(Most of my historical interest is a relatively a bit more contemporary, it's the silent movie era).

@14mission I don't know a lot about silent movies so followed to oearn more. Also yes, I love the Silk Road so much but its not very common knowledge. I'm hoping that if I yap about it enough, people will get interested though. Its an amazing era.