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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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 … :)
Wonderful! The sense I'm gaining from my reading of Marco Polo's travels is of a world eagerly engaging in trade in silks, cloth of gold, spices, horses & jewels throughout Europe, the Middle East, China & India. Amazingly cosmopolitan world!
Absolutely! The evidence is all there, and it makes for a fascinating picture! :)
The tombstone of Caterina Villioni is on display at the "Finding a homeland at the end of the world" exhibition at the Changsha Museum right now
Thanks for the update! It's a fascinating find, has to be said :)
It looks like Christian martyrs being slain by Chinese and angels coming down to carry the body to heaven? Background on this find?
The tombstone of Andrew of Perugia, Bishop of Zayton (Quanzhou), dated 1332 found at Quanzhou, China in 1946 is unfortunately almost illegible https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AndreasPerusinus.jpg …pic.twitter.com/lyYzKAogwh
C. J. Fordyce's 1954 reading is: ☩ Hic (in PFS) sepultus est Andreas Perusinus (de- votus ep. Cayton ....... .......ordinis (fratrum min.) .................. ... (Jesus Christi) Apostolus ............................ ........(in mense) ....... m(cccxx)xii ☩ (But I don't see it)
Wow. I followed that rabbit hole for a while and was amazed.
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