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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 7h

A thread by @wpezemed.bsky.social, on a recent French tv programme on Charlemagne, which doesn't pull its punches (via @andreloez.bsky.social)
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@WPezeMed: Nouvel épisode de "Quand l'Histoire fait date" de P. Boucheron sur le couronnement impérial de Charlemagne sur @ARTEfr, ou: les ravages de l'omnihistorien à la française. Une liste d'erreur...

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 1d

@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social has moved into the early modern period, I see 🤓

Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social on this superb new book - I look forward very much to reading it!

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favourite quotes of all time: "But the Dark Ages, we discovered, had not been truly dark. On the contrary, it quickly became apparent to us that someone had deliberately obscured them." Baigent & Leigh, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 2d

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 5d

Just published in Revue du Nord 451: an interdisciplinary article setting out the arguments for seeing one of these coins as the earliest historical evidence for Bruges (BVRGES) and the other as a coin of Boulogne (BONONIA), both key elements in Charlemagne's North Sea defences.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 7d

How fabulous - have a great time!

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 12d

For #FindsFriday the jewellery from the Féchain hoard, found in 1967 but still unpublished so not as well known as it should be. 441 Carolingian coins, the most recent of Odo and Arnulf, date it to c. 890. Image from Périn and Feffer, La Neustrie.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 13d

A feast for the eyes! 😍 One of the finest Carolingian coins ever seen, à gold solidus of Louis the Pious, minted in the 810s, in an auction with Jean Elsen. 💯% genuine as die-linked with previously known coins.
elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/156/2...

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 13d

A feast for the eyes! 😍 One of the finest Carolingian coins ever seen, à gold solidus of Louis the Pious, minted in the 810s, in an auction with Jean Elsen. 💯% genuine as die-linked with previously known coins.
elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/156/2...

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 14d

I have a raft of articles and book chapters on the point of publication, but I have just got my hands on a printed copy of my 100th published article on medieval coinage and history! Definitely a cause for celebration 🥳 It's a beginners' guide to my field.
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Insider 52.pdf

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 14d

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Groot Merovingisch grafveld vol grafgiften gevonden in Nijmegen

Bij opgravingen in Nijmegen is een Merovingisch grafveld met ruim 130 graven ontdekt. De vondst toont een bloeiende gemeenschap met rijke grafgiften in de vroege middeleeuwen.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 14d

I saw the first, and couldn’t help thinking of the second 😜

Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 14d

😂

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 15d

Enjoyed visiting the London Mithraeum with my son in law. It is well presented and a number of small finds are displayed, including this fabulous lion. The three major finds are reproduced as casts as they’re in the Museum of London. And it’s free!

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 16d

I was just dictating an email as I walked along from taking a school assembly to the coffee shop, and it is always wise to check what it has written. I said “it is a coin of Charlemagne” - it wrote ‘it is a queen of chow mein’ 😂😂😂

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 17d

Like many others I have just deleted my academia edu account. I have done so with great regret because it’s been a great place to share my work and find other people’s. But the new ToS are just ridiculous. I still passionately believe in freely sharing research!

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 17d

Woo hoo! Now available on Open Access - the Proceedings of the 16th International Numismatic Congress in Warsaw in 2022: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Brepols - Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11-16.09.2022, Warsaw: Vol. III. Medieval Numismatics

Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 18d

I haven’t even read Dominion yet but I won’t be asking for Domination for Christmas
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Getting Christianity wrong | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine

If you hastily grab a copy of Tom Holland’s Dominion from Waterstones, only to reach into your bag and gaze in profound confusion at Alice Roberts’s Domination, you can’t be blamed too much.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 19d

For #FindsFriday the small hoard of monogram coins of Charlemagne, minted between 793 and 814, found at Montmain near Rouen. Coins of Mainz, Melle (2), Orléans and Rouen (2). Small but precious, as there aren't many hoards from this period!

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 20d

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Living in a Carolingian World

"Living in a Carolingian World" published on 18 Dec 2025 by Brill.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 20d

Proofs! Well that's today's day off sorted... 😀

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 21d

A fabulous new survey of the so-called Hedeby coinage of the early 9th century by an expert on the subject, free to download: tidsskrift.dk/BMG/issue/vi...

Årg. 37 Nr. 1 (2025): By, marsk og geest - Kulturhistorisk tidsskrift for Sydvestjylland | By, marsk og geest - Kulturhistorisk tidsskrift for Sydvestjylland

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 22d

Time to part with an Anglo-Russian dictionary I’ve had for 40+ years - from 1933 it contains words I’ve never heard but are apparently real. Why anyone should need these words I do not know!

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 23d

@alexharvv.bsky.social (I’m guessing you’re under 35, unlike me!

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 26d

For #FindsFriday a rare coin of Pippin III (751-68) from the 1972 Wijk bij Duurstede hoard with two 'heads' (RP and RF for rex Pippinus & rex Francorum) and a tell-tale axe which shows it was minted locally in Dorestad.

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