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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6381260, member: 110504&quot;]...Well, okay, it&#039;s like this.&nbsp; I finished the initial post in the wee hours of the morning, and ran into my usual technical issues with uploading files.&nbsp; The operant program (possibly with help from this desktop, now formally in the throes of electro-neural dementia --a compliment, since to this day, one requirement or dementia is a functioning brain) kept insisting I was over my limit for uploads.&nbsp; (Right, ostensibly ten files --is this starting to sound like a desperate cry for help?)&nbsp; Here&#039;s the map I would&#039;ve liked to include.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t help a lot with the wider geographic context (bordering the county of Champagne to north, the duchy&nbsp; of Burgunday to the southeast, the royal demesne to the northwest, and the county of Sancerre to the west).&nbsp; But it does give you an idea of the proximity of the main actors to eachother.&nbsp; (From Brian Timms&#039; brilliant, if now somewhat fragmentary Early Blazon website: <a href="http://www.earlyblazon.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.earlyblazon.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.earlyblazon.com/</a>)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1252667[/ATTACH]</p><p>This will give you a better idea of the wider context, in medieval France.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1252671[/ATTACH]</p><p>And here&#039;s the reverse of the prototypical, 10th-early 11th century denier of Auxerre.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1252668[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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