Check out Silk Roads for similar interesting intersections in history https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XST7IX2/
Astonished to learn that in 883 Alfred the Great sent an emissary to India. https://www.caitlingreen.org/2019/04/king-alfred-and-india.html …
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Serious question (out of ignorance): how come this is surprising?
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Journey from England to India is very long. In 800s it's basically across the known world. Such remote places seldom if ever interacted and this is a pretty high profile interaction
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Christianity in India predates the 8th century, some reports mentioning presence in the 1st and 2nd century.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_India#Early_Christianity_in_India …
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I knew about St. Thomas Christians. The surprising thing is that someone would be sent from Wessex to India in Alfred's time.
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It's surprising to learn that people in the past know way more than we think. Story tellers de-emphasize many to create glories for a few.
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".. Something which could cause wonder for people of this generation is that his journey deep into India was a marvellously prosperous one, as he brought back exotic precious stones, in which the land abounds, and some of them can still be seen in precious objects in the church."
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To correct a minor error in the article - St Thomas Mount and the church in Mylapore (San Thome Basilica) are two separate places (never thought PG would tweet about the neighborhood I grew up in)
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Why are you astonished? There was centuries of trade contact between india and rome before 8th century AD.
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Imperial Rome and Anglo-Saxon Wessex were very different things.
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