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sm already long dead in britain sez they i could pick many more and they re all matters of opinion as if a historian s proper job is to guide society s moral verdict on its architects or attackers we do of course exist partly to make people feel better about things i admit that even if another part of our point is to make people question everything but these potted verdicts are so inherently subjective that i would expect any reader who can follow them to realise that there s nothing authoritative about them and that one really doesn t need a historian to reach them this is especially worrisome when the authors own prejudices come out they are in general pro britain although only in the twentieth century where all its politicians have apparently done the best they can with limited information except maybe blair an absurd topic to include given that we have only heard most of the evidence while this post has been in draft six years after the book was even revised one of the authors at least however is acutely contemptuous of the usa and this comes out especially in another of these worrying subjective verdict cases mccarthyism did the end justify the means pp 66 70 here i ll quote the most egregious bit p 69 could the same phenomenon recur in american affairs there is little doubt it could the political leadership of the usa and the bulk of the american nation remain intensely patriotic in their feelings they are starry eyed to the point of mawkishness in their love of their homeland whether or not the ideal qualities for which they regularly lay their hands on their hearts are as evident in their lives as they imagine it is their firm belief that foreign states are deplorably feeble and cynical in not sharing their shining patriotic vision to them a clear sighted grasp of america s national interests a single mindedness in their country s interests and a willingness to sacrifice themselves for their country are absolute imperatives producing the same gut impulse to save america as it did fifty years ago against communism in this sense the mccarthyite spirit lives on whatever may the unseen enemy that seems to threaten thair sanctified vision of themselves now this is not history writing it s not even journalism it s just defamation and directed against an individual it would be actionable what is it doing between covers of a book written by people who believe they are correcting misapprehensions with empirical expertise and who can write in that same book p xi the borderline between error and deliberate misrepresentation is uncertain and often blurred sometimes what originated as a simple error has achieved a certain permanence in people s minds because it seems appropriate a myth perhaps even more appropriate than the truth one wants to use phrases involving words like mote and beam here but perhaps the good old wikimedian protest is still the best one randall munroe wikipedian protestor xkcd july 2007 http xkcd com 285 1 the book s cover and online blurb both say ed rayner and ron stapley are history professors and authors of history textbooks the latter is easy to substantiate but i can t get anything out of the web to show the former odd 53 799461 1 600789 6 comments posted in currently reading uncategorized tagged bad history ed rayner education historians and politics reviews ron stapley xkcd leeds imc report for 2015 part 2 posted on 23 august 2016 4 comments back to the conference reportage then and far from the end of that too you can probably imagine how much i want to be through this backlog so i shall launch in and try to be brief but the second day of the 2015 international medieval congress was a good one for me as the sessions i went to covered pretty much the range of my interests and mostly they had people in i ll go out of my way to hear talking too it unrolled like this 539 texts and politics in the long 10th century i the western kingdom horst lößlein establishing rule charles the simple and the cases of western francia and lotharingia fraser mcnair histories in diplomas kings archbishops nobles and the disputes over st servatius s abbey maastricht 898 and 919 ed roberts religious patronage in the reign of louis iv dynasty memory and the monasteries of st corneille and st remi when i started in on this whole research thing there was approximately one chapter about tenth century francia that had been written in my lifetime so it s really good to see people interested in working over the difficult evidence of the period and trying to understand how we got from the imperial break up of 887 to something quite like france germany italy and flanders a century later this is partly the fault of geoff koziol who was invoked in all these papers but the pieces still need assembly 1 each of these speakers had a piece dr lößlein looking at the patterns of attendance at king charles the simple 899 923 s courts and noting that although charles was able to fight and negotiate his way into his secondary kingdom of lotharingia his inability to cow duke robert of neustria his eventual and short lived successor meant that there were large areas of his main kingdom of the west franks where charles could not actually go 2 not just robert s territories too i might have added but the difference is that he had to work with robert nonetheless whereas he could wait for people from south of the loire to come to him fraser an old friend by now appealed to my scholarly heart by pointing out that there are narrative sources for the early tenth century in francia they re just in charters and he showed the different spins that court and archbishops of trier put on one particular dispute when thus recounting it i enjoyed this but especially for the subtle observation that charles the simple s diplomas stress consensus and participation much more than those of his predecessor in lotharingia king zwentibold fraser may get me to revise my opinion of charles yet lastly ed who noted how difficult a relationship charles s son the unlucky but dogged louis iv had with the legacy of his father whose reign had ended in civil war and imprisonment by his magnates something which louis at least suffered only briefly ed argued that louis made his own way rather than pursuing a carolingian policy and having now taught his reign i d be inclined to agree questions here revolved mainly around the spanish march i bet you can t guess who asked that one and queens since louis s queen gerberga seems to have been an awful lot of his support thanks to being sister of king otto i of the germans 3 all of this i think goes to show that the pieces are there it just needs people to find the work interesting enough to make it so to others a rather wonderful ottonian family tree from the twelfth century chronica sancti pantaleonis image public domain via wikimedia commons note how gerberga and her children appear but no mention is made of her unlucky husband then coffee and then a session about which i had no choice because i was moderating it but didn t need one because it was also really interesting 641 re formed coinage renewed meaning using imitating and disposing of byzantine coins far beyond imperial frontiers lin ying byzantine gold coins in chinese contexts three approaches florent audy scandinavian responses to byzantine coins rebecca darley valuing byzantine gold coins in medieval south india the core question of this session is not hard to spot i guess byzantine coins are found in faraway places where their context as imperial currency could not apply so what were people doing with them in china professor ying told us they were mainly burying them with dead people and along the silk routes and into sogdia making things that looked like solidi to do that with as well usually doubly or triply pierced for wearing there s very little indication that this was more than a species of jewellery to a population to whom normal coins would have looked very different in viking scandinavia that was also happening but there is more sign of a discerning user base although byzantine coins are a tiny fraction of the foreign money and bullion that was accumulating in scandinavia in this period the gold is never pecked or tested and very often set as jewellery whereas the silver usually had been pecked but only when it was real coins there were also imitations of byzantine miliaresia but except in finland these don t seem to have actually circulated even as bullion so why make them as with the chinese context there is more to do here lastly rebecca provided the indian context not unlike the chinese one in as much as byzantine coins were apparently commodities here but treated fairly consistently usually double pierced above the bust and also imitated but only in gold not as plated knock offs the contexts are almost all lost but use in temple contexts seems a better fit to what there is than anything to do with commerce or ports that provoked a sharp question in discussion because while in india the focus is clearly on the imperial portrait in china it can often be on the reverse leading someone to wonder if the coins were appreciated as christian symbols which professor ying thought possible certainly as someone else observed that would be about all you could see on a coin someone was wearing as jewellery unless you were impolitely close this all hung together very well and i gather that publication of something deriving from this is in distant prospect it should be fun double pierced solidus of justin ii found in a tomb at guyuan click through to an article on lin ying s in which further context and some comparator finds are presented that got me to lunch and then it was off to a different bit of my interests i do begin to understand how someone like me must be almost impossible to schedule for 733 the early islamic world vi iberia nicola clarke law families and the frontier in umayyad iberia mateusz wilk power law and ideology in umayyad spain eduardo manzano moreno conquest and settlement what al andalus can tell us about the arab expansion at the time of the umayyad caliphate i will pretty much always go to hear eduardo manzano speak but here there were obviously other things to interest me too dr clarke dug into the agendas of the arabic sources for the conquest of al andalus all significantly posterior to events and for the most part more interested in trying to settle questions of how the caliph should behave to his lieutenants when they exceed his authority and indeed who should have been caliph at all and why for example being able to restrain those same lieutenants the result of which is that it s quite hard to say how far either caliph al walīd or the lieutenant in question mūsā ibn nusayr were in any real control of events dr wilk on the other hand saw in them an attempt to picture muslim spain as a new and better umayyad syria but with shifts once the malikite school of law took hold there in the ninth or tenth centuries and with no useful ninth century sources which is hard to say this provoked surprising amounts of argument commentators proved very invested in the importance of malikism in al andalus either as a mark of arabian connection or as the ineluctable result of fugitives from arabia turning up there and it would perhaps have been more fun to set these people arguing with each other than with dr wilk lastly professor manzano pointed out some odd things about the muslim conquest of spain not least that it was accomplished largely by berber auxiliaries whose acculturation to islam took place largely in the peninsula not before getting there and that by moving a large salaried army into the peninsula and keeping it that way rather than settling it at least at first the new rulers committed themselves to importing a whole fiscal system including gold coin for tax and copper coin for pay where nothing like it had existed for a long time which more or less required the cooperation of christian worthies to make it work this got professor manzano and me into an argument about the survival of the visigothic taxation system and how far that involved copper an argument that ann christys had to stop but in which i would now graciously concede that we were both wrong which i m sure would amuse him 4 a coin on the importance of which we could agree a copper alloy fals of the unlocated al andalus mint struck in somewhen during the eighth or ninth centuries i guess jean elsen ses fils auction 120 15 march 2014 lot 1594 revitalised by dispute i imagine i needed tea less than usual at the end of this session but with the last session of the day still to come i certainly did still need it 814 networks and neighbours iv tracing aristocratic networks in three early medieval kingdoms i was here partly because the title involved some of my keywords and partly out of a loyalty to a related journal that was at that stage this is a story for another time still supposedly about to publish me but also because roger collins was supposed to be moderating and that unfortunately proved not to be so the running order was this paulo henrique de carvalho pachá searching for the visigothic state monarchy and aristocracy in the visigothic kingdom of toledo karen torres da rosa merovingian testaments and power relations in the transference of goods renato rodrigues da silva northumbrian aristocracy through archaeological evidence coins and coinage señor de carvalho engaged directly with the work of luis garcía moreno arguing that rather than an eternal opposition between kings and nobles in visigothic spain we should see a periodic rebuilding of consensus between these and other elements of the state which could break down in a variety of ways not just that defining cleavage since the monarchy was obviously unable to operate without any aristocratic support at all and the aristocracy was frequently divided 5 this made sense to me and the only thing that surprised was the age of the scholarship being engaged surely written before the speaker was born discussion here was very constitutional and made my normal realpolitikal take on such power dealings feel very out of place miss da rosa s work was at too early a stage for it to be fair for me to comment on it here though and señor rodrigues s paper about the early northumbrian silver coinage as a tool of aristocratic power i thought rested on some pretty unprovable assumptions about moneyers there were many ideas here that needed better links to the evidence i m afraid that at the end of this incipient local loyalties not withstanding i was minded not to come to another networks and neighbours imc session obverse of a silver penny of king aldfrith of northumbria 685 704 cambridge fitzwilliam museum cm 1980 2007 reverse of the same coin i think the triple tailed wolf probably militates against this being an attempt to churchify the coinage myself looking back over this as i write it up it strikes me suddenly how generalised the use...
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