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:

https://mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/stories-about-women-from-the-medieval-silk-road-and-available-in-english/

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.