I thoroughly enjoyed @WendyLBelcher’s pinned tweet thread because I am interested in the global Middle Ages and understanding texts and cultures across my time period that I study.
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(This is not a toot-my-own-horn) thread btw).
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For Northern Europe we constantly talk about the links that they had with Asia and Africa. Archbishops of Canterbury coming from N Africa for instance, beads and pottery found in burials from N Africa, jewels from SE Asia, etc.
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One thing that I always thought very interesting was the trade of MSS. They moved huge distances. We only have many of our Greek texts from Arabic scholars.
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So personally, I find it very odd that one of the oldest Christian kingdoms in existence would not have had an interest in other Christian texts from the ME and Asia, that were certainly circulating in that area.
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Also claiming that Greek texts are purely European has so many problems.
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