Global Britain? A brief chronology of an awareness of Britain's existence — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/02/global-britain-brief-chronology.html …pic.twitter.com/YNqrOrN3DC
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Against idea that India=mistake for Judea is ref to St Thomas+Bartholomew, as 9thC English associated these w/ India https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qfbTNQKKHEMC&lpg=PA167&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/mAstTv0IDk
Fwiw, I suspect point was to send the alms to furthest reaches of Christendom as Alfred knew it, so inclined to think India *was* meant ;)
Theory is that India is mistake for Judea, I suspect not & that King Alfred did intend to send alms to India in 883 AD :)
Whatever one thinks of Alfred, one cannot accuse him of thinking small. He always set his sights high
Hah! Very true!
Also interesting is Englishman who=Mongol envoy to Hungary c.1241; lost everything gambling in Acre, Israel, then went east+joined Mongols…pic.twitter.com/MMGGt3wuJE
Was captured in Austria during sudden Mongol withdrawal from Europe, 1242; details of his past recorded by captors: https://archive.org/stream/matthewparissen01rishgoog#page/n486/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/IwAicy1lKa
Was there a Scandinavian who visited Alfred's court, and is mentioned in the chronicle? Possibly was a whaler?
Yes! :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohthere_of_Hålogaland … Don't include here, sadly, as looking specifically at non-Atlantic/NW European awareness of Brit.
Fwiw, an early Indian written ref to Britain in 16thC Ain-i-Akbari: https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaindi01indigoog#page/n133/mode/2up … Would be interested in hearing of any earlier :)
Respect to Sigehelm and Æthelstan! Do you think they had any idea of route or destination?
Prob idea of India as in hagiography of the saints etc; route, probably not, presumably via red sea, cf. http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/6127/2962 …
"Get to Alexandria and then ask again". I wonder if Alfred's diplomatic or banking letters would have worked in Alexandria.
Or Jerusalem? Alfred corresponded with Elias, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and pre-Viking Anglo-Saxons def went there on pilgrimage... :)
I imagine S & Æ transitioning from diplomats to pilgrims when the boss's name recognition faded en route.
Sounds credible to me :)
Seems plausible? BBC "In our Time" had a good programme on the back and forth of Christianity "Prester John" aAsia & India
agreed, I think def plausible :)
What a fascinating idea!
Isn't it!? :)
I don't think a lot of people realize how much people traveled or were geographically connected pre-Modern Era
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