"To experience the popes and their city from afar meant to gaze upon metres-long rolls of an unfamiliar, precious, Egyptian fabric, and to watch them being unfurled in a church, palace, or place of assembly, to reveal decrees penned in a strange southern Italian script, sometimes even an Arabic one that looked stranger still. Was this the Rome of Bede, Offa, Wulfstan, Æthelred? " https://blog.oup.com/2024/03/england-and-egypt-in-the-early-middle-ages-the-papal-connection/ #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Literature #MiddleEast #England #Egypt #Medieval #Rome #Medievodons @histodon @histodons @medievodons