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/vvT3b6oprP
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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/vvT3b6oprP
There were also a number of Mongol envoys in Europe & Britain in the 13th–14thC, see https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/835585739442245632 … :)
Movement in opposite direction too eg Wm of Rubruck encountered Basil, a man of English origin, in Mongolia in 1254: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/02/global-britain-brief-chronology.html …
Likewise the Englishman who was the Mongol envoy to Hungary c.1241; lost everything gambling in Acre, Israel, then went east+joined Mongols…pic.twitter.com/Eu34KimGry
In the E14thC James of Ireland travelled w/ Odoric of Pordenone to Sumatra+China: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000858n/f213.item … — BnF Français 2810, f.104r, 15thCpic.twitter.com/yctQxZtPtv
'The Eastern Parts of the World Described', by Odoric of Pordenone: https://archive.org/stream/cathaywaythither02yule#page/96/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/riNHCXIyDD
Hang on.....if M Polo went one way, why is it a surprise if some folk came the other way?
Polo was by no means the first in that region, either: an Englishman in Mongolia in the 1250s and another may have been there in 1230s... :)
Brilliant that there's documented evidence of wanderings (and valued skills) in either direction.
Absolutely!
Amazing...

please turn this in to a bbc4 doccie
It would be awesome, wouldn't it! :)
Great stuff. How are Chinese getting on showing that Bomber the Bristol Mason Nev, Moxey, Oz and Barry did the brick work onTianamen
I can offer you an Englishman called Basil living and working in Mongolia in 1254... ;) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/02/global-britain-brief-chronology.html?m=1 …
This is indeed remarkable. Now can the discovery of the remains of a Chinese take-away from the same era be far away?!
Our textual sources mention inns and eating houses aplenty, but suspect hard to identify on the ground with certainty! ;)
I'm no archaeologist (nor do I play one on TV!), but I suspect that soil samples bearing traces of MSG would be helpful in identifying them!
Doesn't surprise me too much. People traveled even then. Some Russian guy got bored and walked to India and wrote about it.
I think you mean the merchant Afanasy Nikitin:) https://www.quora.com/Who-was-Afanasy-Nikitin-What-is-interesting-about-his-travel-to-India …
Yeah, that's the one.
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