Bogdan Serai, poss church of St Nicholas+Augustine of Canterbury, built+used by English Varangians in Constantinoplepic.twitter.com/eIxijXXwlU
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Bogdan Serai, poss church of St Nicholas+Augustine of Canterbury, built+used by English Varangians in Constantinoplepic.twitter.com/eIxijXXwlU
Tombstones of 'English Varangians' apparently still found nearby in 1865, but were destroyed: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qocKfNid3SUC&lpg=PA147&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/YE2vTvQneV
As of 2012, church of Bogdan Serai (Boğdan Sarayi) is within a tire shop & mostly destroyed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan_Saray …pic.twitter.com/Ejatz2Tonc
A portolan chart of the Black Sea dated 1368-85, showing Porto di Susacho on the NE coast: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portolan_chart_of_Guillem_Soler_(c.1380,_Paris)_Black_Sea.jpg …pic.twitter.com/W2Lmya2x8V
Lincolnshire & Yorkshire on a portolan chart of 1510, incl the lost 14thC port of Ravenserodd http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001ege000002803u00006v00.html …pic.twitter.com/vwNPji8xqP
@caitlinrgreen Was it Wolley Jollen who vas vicar at Louth for 50 years! C1800?
@Tweets2CV Woolley Jolland? Yes, quite bonkers by all accounts too! Built a hermitage in the vicarage garden with a sheep bone floor!
Re: numbers of Anglo-Saxons involved, texts imply v signif & 200+ ships mentioned; been suggested that c.1000 English Varangians c.AD1100...
This has the dimensions of an invasion force, but these A/S warriors would be defeated people, subjected to William's harrying of the north?
The Vulan River on the Black Sea coast---a possible location for the post-1066 English settlement of Londina: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vulan_River_in_Arkhipo-Osipovka.JPG …pic.twitter.com/PLnIM8CTxj
@caitlinrgreen Fascinating stuff. Any evidence of correspondence with "back home" known, partic. with Henry II re Crusades/Pilgrimage?
@RobertsMartinO A little, incl English voices encountered in Constantinople and, of course, fact that tale known in England/Iceland etc :)
@caitlinrgreen Thanks. Any chance of reference to help diss. re Imptce of cultural interaction & mobility at HII's Court? Much appreciated.
@RobertsMartinO Fell, p. 190, seems to suggest that account of Nova Anglia poss to England in reign of HI, perhaps w/ Wulfric of Lincoln?
@RobertsMartinO Eng Hist Rev, 25 (1910), 293-5 has English monk on pilgrimage c.1090 meeting English ppl in Imperial household in Constant.
@RobertsMartinO Not sure about reign of HII, but Shepard article in Traditio1973 I cite in blog may have something useful in--lots there! :)
@caitlinrgreen Surprised to see no reference in this to Edgar the Aetheling, whose fleet provided logistical support to the First Crusade.
@Dai_James1942 It features in some discussions, but now generally seen as two separate things, oddly enough! :)
@caitlinrgreen A large English fleet off the Levantine coast in 1097-9 and another one sailing from England in 1070s? Seems unlikely!
@Dai_James1942 Yet seems to be what occurred..! Don't forget the pull of the centre of the world---the Roman Empire still standing etc! ;)
@caitlinrgreen no Anglo-Saxon chronicle accounts mentioning such massive events?
@Dai_James1942 Goscelin of Canterbury and Ordericus Vitalis both mention it, iirc :)
@caitlinrgreen Most of my medieval History gained from a score or so of prep school History books. Looks as if I must up my game! Thanks!
@caitlinrgreen That's my medieval British History. I'm a bit better on the Lauragais.
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