An imitation of an 'Abbāsid gold dinar of 789–90/792–3 w/ added crosses, thought to have been struck in Englandpic.twitter.com/u0fXf0U8BI
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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An imitation of an 'Abbāsid gold dinar of 789–90/792–3 w/ added crosses, thought to have been struck in Englandpic.twitter.com/u0fXf0U8BI
An 8th/9thC Anglo-Carolingian cross brooch w/ Arabic inscription, found Ballycottin, Ireland https://voxhiberionacum.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/cork-carolingian-connections/ …pic.twitter.com/otwG12ZYvw
Al-Idrisi mentions Irish towns where 'ships used to put in' & buy amber—ref to 9thC Dublin? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/03/some-imitation-islamic-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/WhhBtl9kuv
The 11thC geographer al-'Udhri's detailed description of an early medieval Irish whale-hunt (trans. D. M. Dunlop)pic.twitter.com/LTClSfO0lQ
@VoxHib Fascinating. Is it absolutely certain that it is Ireland? Perhaps in context...
Pretty sure he's talking about Norse in Ireland...
other Arab sources for medieval Ireland?
http://www.salaam.co.uk/knowledge/old(8.2.02)/british_isles4.html … but
@caitlinrgreen prob knows more
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
That's a standard one :) I use it in post on Byzantium etc https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/721621412037992448 … OCR a bit dodgy tho' in places >
Dr Caitlin Green added,
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>in that version! Also article misses out this al-Idrisi section on Ireland: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744102718336303104 … This transl'd >
Dr Caitlin Green added,
> in Beeston, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 13.2 (1950), pp. 265-80; should be on jstor :)
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