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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.

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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 May 2016

    Camels in early medieval western Europe: beasts of burden+tools of humiliation — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/DT10rwW5a4

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        One use of camels was as means of humiliating enemies—Frankish queen Brunhilda suffered this before being executed:pic.twitter.com/kPBXUhLF8r

        11 replies 21 retweets 39 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        The deposed Byzantine emperor Andronicus I Comnenus was also humiliated by being strapped to a camel in AD 1185...pic.twitter.com/XynDnRty8E

        1 reply 10 retweets 10 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A naked man riding a camel, c. 1300, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 151 f.26v: http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/v9j3f9 …pic.twitter.com/NJEG31YI6o

        7 replies 28 retweets 43 likes
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 13
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Camels used by Visigothic king Wamba to humiliate the rebellious Duke Paul in AD 673, according to Julian of Toldeo: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/wFKooYx1L8

        TEXT: At about the fourth milestone from the royal city, Paul, the chief of the rebellion and other leaders of his conspiracy, with shorn heads, shaved beards, bare feet, and dressed in filthy garments of tunics, are placed on camels. The king of perdition himself went at the head of the pageant, worthy of all the shame of defeat and crowned with pitch on his flayed scalp....
        0 replies 4 retweets 14 likes
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      1. New conversation
      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Main pic used is of pack-camels from L6th-E7thC Tours/Ashburnham Pentateuch, poss Spanish or Italian in origin...pic.twitter.com/LVBgHzwcYJ

        4 replies 15 retweets 24 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 29 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A 12thC Spanish fresco of a camel, from the hermitage of San Baudelio de Berlanga: http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471906 …pic.twitter.com/c2fqJh8pok

        1 reply 23 retweets 29 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 29 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Dromedaries as depicted in the sixth-century Vienna Genesis; from an illustration of story of Rebecca, Genesis 24pic.twitter.com/Zh1rtec8bW

        3 replies 30 retweets 66 likes
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 29 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        My favourite line of dancing camels from the 11thC Old English Hexateuch, aka an illustration for Genesis 24 :)pic.twitter.com/qd0dlb8dUt

        9 replies 64 retweets 132 likes
      6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A 12thC mosaic of camels, again illustrating the story of Rebecca from Genesis, in the Palatine Chapel, Palermopic.twitter.com/0oIGV3wKD9

        3 replies 26 retweets 60 likes
      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Sep 13
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        The Erpingham Chasuble, made c.1400–30 in England and decorated with gold camels bearing flower baskets: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O84718/chasuble-unknown/ …pic.twitter.com/0UKZaBstZy

        3 replies 38 retweets 125 likes
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      1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 1 Jun 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        On camels in Europe during the Roman period, see for example this paper by Pigière+Henrotay: https://www.academia.edu/1809286/Pigi%C3%A8re_F._and_Henrotay_D._2012._Camels_in_the_northern_provinces_of_the_Roman_Empire …pic.twitter.com/oXfKPQ3P0l

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Camels in early 12thC Scotland and Ireland—sent by Scottish king to Muirchertach Ua Briain of Ireland: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100004/text066.html … s.a. 1105.7pic.twitter.com/HTBy9eXFqv

        Annal for 1105: In the above year a camel, an animal of remarkable size, was brought from the king of Alban to Muirchertach Is Briain.
        2 replies 12 retweets 22 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Camels also present in late 10thC Poland+Germany, with Mieszko I of Poland giving one as a gift to Otto III in 980s:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Db9Z_BagLw8C&lpg=PA25&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false …

        1 reply 7 retweets 11 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Eyewitness account of some rather unfortunate camels used during the late 6thC Avar seige of Thessaloniki, Greece: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/147879.pdf …pic.twitter.com/iBWKK8weib

        TEXT: ...They nailed bloodied hides of newly slain oxen and camels onto these [seige] machines and they thus brought them up near to the wall....
        1 reply 5 retweets 8 likes
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      2. Marius Hollenga‏ @MariusHollenga 28 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        ANOTHER Twitterstorian that is a part of the secret #CamelCabal. *looks around suspiciously*

        2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 May 2016
        Replying to @MariusHollenga

        Hah! ;) I don't know if I count, but I def find them intriguing, esp when they turn up in Europe! ;)

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Marius Hollenga‏ @MariusHollenga 28 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        I bet the camels were also intrigued by our colder, wetter, and less civilized world. ^^

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 May 2016
        Replying to @MariusHollenga

        Especially the one that Mieszko I of Poland kept + gave as gift to Otto III in 980s! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland#Participation_in_German_civil_war …

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      6. Marius Hollenga‏ @MariusHollenga 28 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Tom Holland neglected to mention this camel in Millennium. :(

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 May 2016
        Replying to @MariusHollenga

        Alas, denied fame! ;) Def fared better than camels used by Avars in attack on Thessaloniki in 597...pic.twitter.com/HoS9ALOuZx

        1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
      8. Marius Hollenga‏ @MariusHollenga 28 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        I mean, attacking the Byzantines was a dumb move to begin with. Sad to see the camels paid for it. :(.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 May 2016
        Replying to @MariusHollenga

        Indeed :( Assume these were of the Bactrian type, poor things :(

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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