A note on the evidence for African migrants in Bronze Age–Medieval Britain — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/a-note-on-evidence-for-african-migrants.html …pic.twitter.com/lnldjbZaKI
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(Reposting w/ revised translation of list of inhabitants of 12thC London, after Johansson https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y8_Ya2s3zN8C&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159#v=onepage&q&f=false … & http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/London's_Medieval_Sodomites.pdf …)
London wasn't the only city Richard of Devizes seems to have disliked, incidentally... https://archive.org/stream/chronicleofricha00rich#page/60/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/cbkQjWs70d
are there any he did like?
Winchester people are ok, so long as you don't mind their constant lying....!
what would "drug dealers" have sold? Or is that a mistranslation?
no, drug dealers is the correct sense, but quite what that might involve is not an area I know much about, I fear!
would opium have been available? Just a thought. Or perhaps "magic mushrooms"? Intrigued!
Opium seems credible to me, as def available in medieval period :)
thanks. It was certainly a very colourful list of 'people to avoid' in London. Very interesting.
*packs belongings into bundle, hitches lift on some kind of cart* To London!
Hah! :)
Probably came during the travels of the #Crusades.
Possible, though also possibly via Spain etc, cf 11th- and 12thC Spanish dinar finds in Britain: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/islamic-gold-dinars-anglo-norman.html?m=1 …
@daviottenheimer "Smooth-skinned lads"? "Women of the stews"?
A discussion of the terms here :) http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/London's_Medieval_Sodomites.pdf …
best title for a PDF I've ever seen
Hello, there are lots of pubs with Turk in their names in Britain. Could this be a remnant of 'medieval moors in Britain'?
and some of these pubs claim to be quite ancient.. btw very interesting to read your study of medieval moors in Britain..
Thanks! :) And some of those inns certainly go back to the medieval period, fwiw...
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