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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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    1. 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

      23 replies 330 retweets 470 likes
    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
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 May 2016

      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

      3:19 PM - 30 May 2016
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      • Pedro Pacheco Sean Stubbe THE EGOIST Ivan Ivanov Peter Davies Jack Z Samillian Erika Butler Catherine Street
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        1. 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....
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        2. Prof Carolyne Larrington‏ @profcarolyne 30 May 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Actually that DOES look like Cersei ...

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 31 May 2016
          Replying to @profcarolyne

          Hah! :)

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        2. Dr Sophie Hay‏ @pompei79 20 Jul 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          camel, there, desperately clinging on to its composure and resisting urge to snigger. Lovely!

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Jul 2016
          Replying to @pompei79

          Hah! Yes, it's doing remarkably well, considering! :)

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        2. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 30 May 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          OK, but Andronicus was tied on facing backward and bent over, so that he came into close contact with the camel's south end.

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 31 May 2016
          Replying to @GeorgeRick1

          This is true! But I couldn't find a picture of that....!

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        4. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 31 May 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Well it would be rather undignified!

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        1. Scott Bevan‏ @scottylar 31 May 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @CatherineEsse thank God for that!! I saw the headline & thought someone had got hold of my holiday snaps from Egypt 2010..😳

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        1. Adul‏ @AdelAmini4 Aug 13
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Much more like a horse or a mule than a camel!?

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        1. Tim Murgatroyd‏ @TimMurgatroyd 30 May 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A small downside for our TV-taught familiarity with animals is losing their mysticism, exoticism and symbolic connotations .

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