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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Dec 2015

      As Christmas nears, a lovely L15-E16thC nativity scene from a gold ring, Sleaford (Lincs): https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/642395 …pic.twitter.com/OpNPYMd2gl

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    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Dec 2015
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Another medieval wearable nativity scene--reverse of the L15thC Middleham Jewel, Yorkshire: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middleham_Jewel,_reverse_YORYM_1991_43.jpg …pic.twitter.com/Bgze7SuHAa

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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Dec 2015

      A 6-7thC Byzantine ring w/ scenes from Life of Christ incl Nativity+Adoration of the Magi :) http://art.thewalters.org/detail/11447 pic.twitter.com/IZ2im665J3

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Dec 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A L10thC Anglo-Saxon nativity scene in walrus Ivory: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/antiquities/ivories/item-440815.aspx …pic.twitter.com/TdX0pxhNqx

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Dec 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          The same scene in the L10thC Benedictional of St Æthelwold, BL Additional 49598, f. 15v: http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/e-word-is-geworden-anglo-saxon.html …pic.twitter.com/z3FoA5vSQG

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Dec 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A very early Nativity scene, 1st half of 4thC, sarcophagus of Marcus Claudianus: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Sarcophage_de_Marcus_Claudianus_-_Pal._Massimo_alle_Terme.JPG …pic.twitter.com/xT5jj8nmNU

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Dec 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Another early Nativity scene, from the 4thC so-called 'Sarcophagus of Stilicho', Milan: https://memoriadei.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/the-ox-the-ass-and-the-passion-of-the-nativity/ …pic.twitter.com/DbMkB5Tn2a

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Dec 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          The Nativity, by the 13thC Armenian manuscript illuminator T'oros Roslin, produced 1262: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/31378/nativity-3/ …pic.twitter.com/ZI69TyiHEJ

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Dec 2015
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          An ivory leaf from a diptych showing the Nativity, 1st half of 6thC, from Thessaly, Greece: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=60956&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/ok9fXKAHCb

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        3. Bonyard T. Bonehead‏ @BonyardB 21 Dec 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Is that a mid wife figure swaddling the baby, or perhaps the mother is twice depicted?

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Dec 2015
          Replying to @BonyardB

          @BonyardB It's Salome from the apocryphal Gospel of James: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(Gospel_of_James) …

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        5. Bonyard T. Bonehead‏ @BonyardB 16 Dec 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Thank you~I had not come across this side light on the Nativity.

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        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Dec 2016
          Replying to @BonyardB

          my pleasure :)

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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Dec 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Another Byzantine Nativity in the L10/E11thC so-called Menologion of Basil II: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menologion_of_Basil_053.jpg …pic.twitter.com/VgvI7ahUhv

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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Dec 2015
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          Another L6/E7thC Byzantine depiction of Adoration of the Magi, bound in Etchmiadzin Gospels http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/arts_of_armenia/highres/061.jpg …pic.twitter.com/OCWTRgqeMa

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Dec 2015
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          A much earlier Adoration of the Magi w/ rather happy camels; 4thC Roman sarcophagus, Rome: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adoration_magi_Pio_Christiano_Inv31459.jpg …pic.twitter.com/yvhgpvAWId

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        2. T S P‏ @morangles 24 Dec 2015
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          @caitlinrgreen Oh now this is a real treat Never seen this one before

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Dec 2015
          Replying to @morangles

          @morangles It's great! I love the elf-like Magi too! :)

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        4. T S P‏ @morangles 24 Dec 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen here they are up to their elf cap ... giving out who is really Great Schmurf aka Schtroumpfpic.twitter.com/KtYUdwFNYf

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Dec 2015
          Replying to @morangles

          @morangles I *love* that one--fabulous! Though now I won't be able to look at it without seeing smurfs!! :-/ :)

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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Dec 2015
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          @lambandflag99 Oh, thank you---really nice of you to say! :)

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