Al-Idrisi in 12thC on Hastings: 'a town of large extent+many inhabitants, flourishing+handsome, having markets, workpeople & rich merchants'
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Abu'l-Fida on Britain from his E14thC Geography, based on 13thC work of Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi (trans. Dunlop, 1957)pic.twitter.com/yngi0Nwf5h
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Harun ibn Yahya, a late 9th-century traveller, on Britain; account preserved by Ibn Rustah: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …pic.twitter.com/Ig41PQ25uX
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Vikings in Morocco & Africans in 9th-11thC Ireland and England: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/09/a-great-host-of-captives.html …pic.twitter.com/9xPm4qgCA4
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Post mentions 3 poss burials of African women in 9th-11thC England, incl N. Elmham burial discussed here: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1311/1/1311.pdf pp.224-6
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Another African woman, aged 18-24, was found at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2013—radiocarbon dated to AD 896–1025:http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/10688142.Schoolboys_amazed_that_skeleton_is_1_000_year_old_African_woman/ …
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Hadrian, the L7-E8thC Abbot of St Augustine's,Canterbury, was 'a man of African race' (Bede) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=egy-k7LV-e4C&lpg=PA170&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ze0xufAot7
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
In this context, worth noting that multiple ppl buried at 7th-9thC Bamburgh may well have African origin too... Seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/657981747154522112 …
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Similarly, 2 people in the 7thC monastic cemetery at Ely may well have grown up in N Africa http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6135608&fileId=S0003581509990102 …pic.twitter.com/xWbw7AZUOm
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There are great books re Africans in Roman period, and the Renaissance and onwards - but I want to know about 15th c! (2/2)
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
There's more on literary refs etc, but seems less on history—fwiw, I gathered some evidence here: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/753581643538042880 … :)
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That is wonderful - don't know how I missed it - thanks!!!
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