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
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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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
A meeting between King Edward I of England and Rabban Bar Sauma, a monk & diplomat from China who visited 13th-century Europe: http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm#c48 …pic.twitter.com/EJ3K1bZosz
A detail from Andrea di Bonaiuto's fresco 'The Way of Salvation/The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant', c. 1365–8, with the figures at the centre identified by Jacques Paviot as an English knight of the Garter talking to a Mongol: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Way-of-salvation-church-militant-triumphant-andrea-di-bonaiuto-1365.jpg …pic.twitter.com/RrpXUG8BmV
A 15th-century image of James of Ireland and Odoric of Pordenone in Sumatra in the 1320s, from BnF Français 2810, f.104r; they subsequently travelled to China, where they stayed for 3 years before returning back to Europe: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000858n/f213.item …pic.twitter.com/oWbuDbwghs
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 …
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