An eleventh-century Chinese coin in Britain and the evidence for East Asian contacts in the medieval period — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/03/an-eleventh-century-chinese-coin.html …pic.twitter.com/CYelKLjx9c
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'The Eastern Parts of the World Described', by Odoric of Pordenone, 1330: https://archive.org/stream/cathaywaythither02yule#page/96/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/sG4X7PRLGm
Matthew Paris's 13th-century account of the capture of an Englishman who acted as envoy for the Mongols during their European invasion c.1241 is also interesting—he had lost everything gambling at Acre, Israel, and then travelled east & joined the Mongols: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/03/an-eleventh-century-chinese-coin.html …pic.twitter.com/F4PZu2BVKD
The tombstone of Katerina Ilioni, daughter of the Genoese merchant Domenico Ilioni, dated 1342 and found at Yangzhou, China: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YangzhouKatarinaVilioniTomb1342.jpg …pic.twitter.com/STBXISNnvT
For interest, a distribution map of Chinese late 10th- to 15th-century qingbai ware in Arabia and East Africa; fragments of Chinese qingbai ware have been found in a 14th-century context at Winchester: http://journals.openedition.org/afriques/1836 pic.twitter.com/Y49TdoMXsK
Worth noting that around 2,000 Northern Song coins are recorded from sites west of Sri Lanka too; I've mapped them here based primarily on Cribb & Potts 1996, with additions.pic.twitter.com/3q77htBlta
Some recent finds of 11th-century Chinese coins reported from Ethiopia & Zanzibar: https://www.academia.edu/5999530/Identification_of_a_Chinese_coin_found_in_Kuumbi_Cave_Zanzibar_by_prof._Felix_Chami … & https://www.academia.edu/2566792/Northern_Song_coin_finds_in_Harla_Ethiopia_point_to_newly_found_silk_routes_from_China_to_the_Horn_of_Africa … &https://www.academia.edu/8407965/A_second_Chinese_North_Song_coin_from_Kuumbi_Cave_Tanzania_is_identified …
A bright red silk cover from the medieval skull reliquary of King Eric IX of Sweden, believed to be made from Chinese silk: http://www.glossa.fi/mirator/pdf/i-2015/themedievalskullrelic.pdf …pic.twitter.com/6tXtpnlYro
The Gaignères-Fonthill vase, an early 14th-century Chinese porcelain vase that seems to have arrived in Europe during the medieval period: https://jekely.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/note-on-fonthill-vase.html …pic.twitter.com/FiP0J4Gskx
For more on finds of Chinese pottery in medieval European contexts, including late 14th-century Winchester, see David Whitehouse, 'Chinese porcelain in medieval Europe', Medieval Archaeology, 16 (1972): http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol16/16_063_078.pdf …pic.twitter.com/kgCBLn1fUG
This is fascinating! A 10th-century Chinese coin found in Bulgaria: https://twitter.com/lubo_ac23/status/1013425029030273024 … :)
I am currently listening to a podcast discussing the life of Johann Schiltberger in the early 15th century after his cspture at Nicopolis. Was wondering if any of these works reprinted in English. I have a copy of Mandeville.
Odoric is here, fwiw :) https://archive.org/stream/cathaywaythither02yule#page/96/mode/2up …
Many thanks
Translations into French by a monk called Jan de Langhe of Marco Polo's travels & Odoric of Pordenone's account of missionary work in Asia, were used as sources by Sir John Mandeville in his Book of Marvels & Travels.
Now that would make a brilliant mini tv series
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Was Sumatra called, "Sumatra" then?
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