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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
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Feb 2017

      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

      Map of Europe, Africa and Asia, showing a gradual west to east spread in an awareness of Britain's existence from c. 600 BC (southern France) to the early fourteenth century AD (China).
      27 replies 459 retweets 719 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Feb 2017

      Did King Alfred send alms to the shrines of St Thomas & St Bartholomew in India in 883 AD? http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/07/15/anglo-saxons-in-southern-india/ … & http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_domitian_a_viii_f055v …pic.twitter.com/sbOn6Kn90m

      Manuscript image, showing the annal for 883 AD with the names India, St Thomas and St Batholomew clearly visible; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, MS F.
      12:46 PM - 25 Feb 2017
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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          Ninth-century Old English martyrology on the death of St Bartholomew in India.
          2 replies 7 retweets 19 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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 ;)

          1 reply 5 retweets 11 likes
        4. Bertie and Alfie WFT's‏ @Blakeney4ever 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          ?

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @Blakeney4ever

          Theory is that India is mistake for Judea, I suspect not & that King Alfred did intend to send alms to India in 883 AD :)

          1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
        6. Chris Riedel‏ @medievalhistory 30 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Blakeney4ever

          Whatever one thinks of Alfred, one cannot accuse him of thinking small. He always set his sights high

          2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 31 Jul 2017
          Replying to @medievalhistory @Blakeney4ever

          Hah! Very true!

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 26 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          6 replies 28 retweets 54 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 26 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          Thirteenth-century depiction of a battle between Mongol riders and European knights in Poland, 1241.
          4 replies 16 retweets 28 likes
        4. JerryS01‏ @JerryS01 26 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Was there a Scandinavian who visited Alfred's court, and is mentioned in the chronicle? Possibly was a whaler?

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 26 Feb 2017
          Replying to @JerryS01

          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.

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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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 :)

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        2. Tom‏ @umacf24 4 Mar 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Respect to Sigehelm and Æthelstan! Do you think they had any idea of route or destination?

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 5 Mar 2017
          Replying to @umacf24

          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 …

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        4. Tom‏ @umacf24 5 Mar 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          "Get to Alexandria and then ask again". I wonder if Alfred's diplomatic or banking letters would have worked in Alexandria.

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 5 Mar 2017
          Replying to @umacf24

          Or Jerusalem? Alfred corresponded with Elias, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and pre-Viking Anglo-Saxons def went there on pilgrimage... :)

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Tom‏ @umacf24 5 Mar 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          I imagine S & Æ transitioning from diplomats to pilgrims when the boss's name recognition faded en route.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 5 Mar 2017
          Replying to @umacf24

          Sounds credible to me :)

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        2. Simon Moores‏ @SimonMoores 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Seems plausible? BBC "In our Time" had a good programme on the back and forth of Christianity "Prester John" aAsia & India

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @SimonMoores

          agreed, I think def plausible :)

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        2. GhostWarrior ⚔  🇨🇦‏ @ghostcatbce 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          What a fascinating idea!

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @ghostcatbce

          Isn't it!? :)

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        4. GhostWarrior ⚔  🇨🇦‏ @ghostcatbce 25 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          I don't think a lot of people realize how much people traveled or were geographically connected pre-Modern Era

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