According to 14thC prose Brut, 1st inhabitants of Britain=33 Syrian women who arrived by sea https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GGh3qeEuN1IC&pg=PA73&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/C2bT6MZ9VH
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Also worth noting again that medieval authors quite happy to portray 9thC Viking warriors as Saracens/Muslims...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/754612140556845056 …
Similarly, by mid-late13thC story circulating that Thomas Becket's mother=a Saracen princess http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=53379 …pic.twitter.com/7J0VMPFqg3
Story=early but obv hagiography/romance; however, worth noting once more that were some Muslims in 12thC Englandhttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/739854170879107074 …
A Continental depiction of Albina & her sisters arriving in Britain; Anglo-Norman prose Brut, 15thC (BL Royal 19 C IX, f.8): http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=40511 …pic.twitter.com/Sv73QNrLtm
'In the noble land of Syrie th[er] was a noble kyng and mighty and a man of grett reno[u]n...' — the start of the Prose Brut Chronicle of England, mid-15thC, MS Harley MS 1568, f. 1: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/popular-history-for-an-english-audience-the-english-prose-brut-chronicle.html …pic.twitter.com/Gbdf8U92kn
I smell a screenplay!
I'd watch it! :)
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