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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
caitlingreen.org
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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Apr 2016

    Britain, the Byzantine Empire & the Saxon 'Heptarchy': a L9thC Arabic description of Britain http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …pic.twitter.com/y94Zs3zzvF

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Apr 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A copper-alloy Byzantine follis of Heraclius, minted Nicomedia 611–12, found West Midlands: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/175620 …pic.twitter.com/tVGiAiO3uJ

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Jun 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        'Early Byzantine copper coins found in Britain' by Sam Moorhead https://www.academia.edu/11482638/_Early_Byzantine_copper_coins_found_in_Britain_A_review_of_new_finds_recorded_with_the_Portable_Antiquities_Scheme_Ancient_History_Numismatics_and_Epigraphy_in_the_Mediterranean_World_ed._Og%C5%ADz_Tekin_Yayinlari_Istanbul_2009_263-274 … pic=https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/405680 …pic.twitter.com/f2yChsZ2eX

        1 reply 14 retweets 19 likes
      4. Sihong Lin‏ @shlin28 24 Jun 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        C. Morrisson has written on the gold/silver coins found in Britain in 2014, very interesting read :)https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6zgXBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA207&ots=pilvSbvKow&dq=Byzantine%20Coins%20in%20Early%20Medieval%20Britain%3A%20a%20Byzantinist%27s%20assessment&pg=PA207#v=onepage&q&f=false …

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Jun 2016
        Replying to @shlin28

        yes! Well worth a read! :)

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      6. End of conversation
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Apr 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Most interesting aspect may well be that Harun ibn Yahya's account seems to push idea of Saxon Heptarchy back from 12thC to at least 9thC...

        1 reply 9 retweets 14 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Apr 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        However, also offers interesting perspective on relations between Britain+Constantinople & opportunity to discuss evidence for contact :)

        1 reply 3 retweets 12 likes
      4. Marius Hollenga‏ @MariusHollenga 17 Apr 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen I'm thinking it might suggest that British rulers were paying lip-service to Constantinople in exchange for trade-deals. :O

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Apr 2016
        Replying to @MariusHollenga

        @MariusHollenga Like the Franks, perhaps? Seems possible!

        0 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Apr 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        'Britain at the time of the Saxon Heptarchy', E17thC map by John Speed--detail of E England: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ATLAS-00002-00061-00001/1 …pic.twitter.com/cJQeKezOlf

        9 replies 25 retweets 41 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Dec 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        The 'Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy', as first mapped in Lambarde's Archaionomia of 1568, via https://www.johnfoxe.org/index.php?realm=more&type=image …pic.twitter.com/y4RRJ6g2mt

        Woodcut map of England "in the Saxones time", showing the seven kingdoms and extensive river systems.
        1 reply 16 retweets 30 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Nov 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        John Speed's full 1611–12 map of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy :) http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ATLAS-00002-00061-00001/1 …pic.twitter.com/7c05HksWO0

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      1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Apr 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        10thC Persian Hudud al-'Alam also fascinating, both for its ref to Byzantine/Spanish trade & ref to mines=hints of the Byzantine tin trade?

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        The 10thC Persian Hudud al-'Alam also mentions Britain and considers it a land of the Rūm/Byzantines:pic.twitter.com/bm7OgswuiQ

        6 replies 32 retweets 49 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Penmachno stone, N. Wales—includes a consular dating prob referring to Justin II, 567–79: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1839341 pic.twitter.com/rA49QLBiw1

        7 replies 43 retweets 82 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Isotope evidence for early medieval movement between South Wales & the Mediterranean/Carthage as late as L7thC: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031300023X …

        0 replies 7 retweets 15 likes
      5. End of conversation
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      2. Michelle Ziegler‏ @MZiegler3 26 Apr 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen Any recommendations on sources for Byzan & Britain?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 May 2016
        Replying to @MZiegler3

        @MZiegler3 Missed this, sorry! This most recent on imports: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue41/3/index.html … Also https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol33/33_001_006.pdf … & https://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/file/5a209501-c070-fefa-9c2d-a05a181ce005/7/Wars_and_rumours_of_wars_by_Jonathan_Harris.pdf …

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @MZiegler3 For a maximum view, there's also this :) http://www.researchcatalogue.esrc.ac.uk/grants/T026271221/outputs/read/b6e0c070-6079-4028-92e1-acd14c186895 … Finally, this v good: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bBwtGITEd1oC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false … :)

        0 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
      5. End of conversation
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      2. Lost Sophist‏ @Lost_Sophist 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        is that Dungeness on the right of the Arabic map?

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @Lost_Sophist

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        Places identified in this tweet:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/714388132339298304 …

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        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Al-Idrisi's twelfth-century map & description of eastern England -- new brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html … pic.twitter.com/zr0gIOcS6X
        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Lost_Sophist

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        And this one :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/719248330472230913 …

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Islamic gold dinars in late eleventh- and twelfth-century England -- new brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/islamic-gold-dinars-anglo-norman.html … pic.twitter.com/wUWAM8C7kn
        0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
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