Interestingly, Richard I is said to have had 120 'Saracen mercenaries' in his employ…! A discussion by F.M. Powicke: https://archive.org/stream/scottishhistoric08edinuoft#page/104/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/TRxkd2D8hS
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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Interestingly, Richard I is said to have had 120 'Saracen mercenaries' in his employ…! A discussion by F.M. Powicke: https://archive.org/stream/scottishhistoric08edinuoft#page/104/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/TRxkd2D8hS
Fwiw his father, Henry II, apparently similarly had Saracen mercenaries in his employ during the 1180s… http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue11-1.pdf … (p.1 & fn.3)
Henry II's reign also when a man named Mahumet (Muhammad) seems to have been living & duelling in Wiltshire, 1160–5: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue11-1.pdf …pic.twitter.com/vaAHvupC5O
Fwiw, Islamic gold dinars in late eleventh- and twelfth-century England — a brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/islamic-gold-dinars-anglo-norman.html …pic.twitter.com/j3VODLJ4KL
They were also known in England from the eighth century at least, and with sufficient cachet to encourage King Offa to produce this:pic.twitter.com/vbUFFAW4CH
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Indeed! https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/893555113222131716 … :) Fwiw, I find it interesting that the AS examples add names/crosses, but Carolingian imitations don't...
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Or maybe it was simply a way to differentiate from the Frankish versions that provided a model to English authorities
Could be. Of course, intriguing question is would they have recognised Carolingian imitations as imitations, distinct from genuine dinars?
Hmm. Now you've got me thinking... But whatever the case, Offa clearly keen that these were recognised as 'his' coins, not imports.
So appropriating the symbolism and associations, whilst advertising own independent power
Absolutely! Most intriguing :)
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