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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
caitlingreen.org
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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
    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Feb 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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.
      7 replies 38 retweets 89 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 26 Feb 2017

      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

      4:07 AM - 26 Feb 2017
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        2. 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
        3. 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?

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        4. 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 1 Mar 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          As to SE Asia, unclear when aware of Britain, tho' Irish friar there in 1320s+medieval English coins in Vietnam... (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T7Jl6LgZSVUC&pg=PA2&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false …)

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

          A meeting between King Edward I of England & Rabban Bar Sauma, a monk+diplomat from China who visited 13thC Europe: http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm#c48 …pic.twitter.com/WkXTdZzOIG

          Text passage describing Rabban Bar Sauma's visit to Gascony where he met King Edward I of England.
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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Nov 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Matthew Paris's 13thC account of the capture of the Englishman who acted as envoy for the Mongols during their European invasion c.1241—he had lost everything gambling at Acre, Israel, and then travelled east & joined the Mongols: https://archive.org/stream/matthewparissen01rishgoog#page/n486/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/UA72ICHb9r

          1 reply 8 retweets 16 likes
        3. John McCarron Artist‏ @johnmccarron1 12 Nov 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          “Acre,Israel”? Where does it say that?

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Nov 2017
          Replying to @johnmccarron1

          I can't tell if this is a real question... It clearly says Acre, which I'm giving the current location of... Or are you making a political point? Not sure I care overmuch, so *block*

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        1. Simon Moores‏ @SimonMoores 26 Feb 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          is this the former Geordie monk who was captured by the Poles and killed. Always thought it would make a great novel 😉

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        1. Scot Finlayson‏ @ScotFinlayson 28 Feb 2017
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          Edward 1 joined up with forces of Mongol Abaqa Khan during 9th crusade.

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