This is fascinating: apparently evidence for a Chinese stonemason in medieval Norwich... :)https://twitter.com/AngelRoofsofEA/status/906240952301490176 …
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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
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'The Eastern Parts of the World Described', by Odoric of Pordenone: https://archive.org/stream/cathaywaythither02yule#page/96/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/riNHCXIyDD
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It's getting weirder and weirder: An Englishman, being the enemy's envoy, at the year of invasion.pic.twitter.com/cGZ34c4uOj
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Fascinating, isn't it...! Apparently picked up by the Mongols in West Asia specifically for his language skills...
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And it's way too early for Mongols in the
#Levant.Which means that he must have traveled at least as far as#Azerbaijan to actually meet any -
Yes, he was clearly very well-travelled! Wonder how many others there too who don't get recorded by chance...? :)
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great story!
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Am genuinely fascinated by it, such a journey, & would know nothing of him if not for a single reference, which I think is notable!
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Tantalising. One of the fascinations of your work is touching on glimpses of such wonderful distant lives and bringing them to us. Thanks!
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My pleasure, and thank you :)
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It it same Englishman who was the subject of this entertaining tale?pic.twitter.com/G2ldvYVAoa
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I believe so, though sadly haven't read it :)
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Ta, its entertaining but difficult to work out where fact and fiction parted ways..
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Alas, we only have a paragraph or so of facts, so suspect quite a lot of embellishments...!
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Those are impressive linguistic skills. What an extraordinary journey that individual must have undertaken !
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Yes, agree on both counts! :)
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Would he have been multilingual or would there have been an international language ie Latin?
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Apparently had a gift for languages — learnt several in West Asia and impressed the Mongols with his skills, so they persuaded him to join!
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Marco Polo seems less of an event more a case of his travels being known therefore interesting
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