The evolution of elephant depiction through the middle ages: https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html … :) #WorldElephantDaypic.twitter.com/KHpBLfMwfK
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The evolution of elephant depiction through the middle ages: https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html … :) #WorldElephantDaypic.twitter.com/KHpBLfMwfK
An elephant on the mid-12th-century Otranto cathedral mosaic, Italy #WorldElephantDay https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otranto,_cathedral,_mosaic_08.jpg …pic.twitter.com/kTWDvKLux2
An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon drawing of a not-particularly elephant-like elephant.... :) http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/how-the-camel-got-the-hump.html … #WorldElephantDaypic.twitter.com/UgS6JYOsQb
In contrast, here's Matthew Paris's 13th-century drawing of King Henry III's elephant in the royal menagerie; it was a gift from Louis IX of France in 1255 and lived in the Tower of London: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/05/the-elephant-at-the-tower.html …pic.twitter.com/RSI9ZIkoFg
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted CWAC Museums
Worth noting that there are also medieval elephant remains known from Chester, radiocarbon dated to AD 1290—1410:https://twitter.com/cwacmuseums/status/940295256339288064 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
See here for some possible elephants in Roman Britain too :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/738293517106225152 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
I would have imagined that the site of elephants to the British would have been equivalent to the first siting of British tanks by German troops at the Battle of Flers?
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