A Christmas visitor: the Byzantine emperor's trip to London in the winter of 1400–01 — a new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/12/byzantine-emperor-london.html …pic.twitter.com/qATWud988g
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A Christmas visitor: the Byzantine emperor's trip to London in the winter of 1400–01 — a new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/12/byzantine-emperor-london.html …pic.twitter.com/qATWud988g
The image is a late 15th-century depiction of the meeting between Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and King Henry IV at London in 1400, from Lambeth Palace Library MS 6, f. 240r :)
Two 15th-century images of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, 1391–1425 (via …http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/regensburg-revisited.html …)pic.twitter.com/EBi5xJQhn0
King Henry IV hosted a grand Christmas party for Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos at his palace of Eltham, located south-east of London, and staged a great tournament for him in the palace grounds (pic=https://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanh1/8257067017 …)pic.twitter.com/afvo4UMkVU
Henry IV reportedly showered Emperor Manuel with gifts, including £2000 for his cause, and the emperor gave Henry in return a piece of the Seamless Tunic woven by the Virgin Mary for her son, which Henry was apparently delighted by:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294821821_An_ultimate_wealth_for_inauspicious_times_Holy_relics_in_rescue_of_Manuel_II_Palaeologus%27_reign …
The people of London also went out of their way to entertain the emperor, with the Chronicle of London recording under 1400 that they 'made a great mumming to him' (pic=MS Bodl. 264, fol. 21v, mid-14thC: http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/pm4q0s …)pic.twitter.com/DitvNLAzTZ
For the emperor's other diplomatic visits and contacts in this period, see for example 'Manuel II Palaeologus in Paris (1400-1402)', by Charalambos Dendrinos: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/manuel-ii-palaeologus-in-paris-14001402-theology-diplomacy-and-politics(091c9277-6237-4d49-82e4-7eba5123bc68).html … (pic=an E14thC French image of Melchior based on Emperor Manuel, https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_51v_-_The_Meeting_of_the_Magi.jpg …)pic.twitter.com/qzuYm9yOel
The Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos as Melchior kissing the feet of the baby Jesus, from an early 15th-century illumination of the Adoration of the Magi (the French Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, f. 52r): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_52r_-_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg …pic.twitter.com/PbPSXjU02f
An early 15th-century French medal featuring a portrait of the 7th-century Byzantine emperor Heraclius which is thought to have been modelled on Manuel II Palaiologos: http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/heraclius-58809 …pic.twitter.com/16ffARbgSr
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