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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4990303, member: 110504&quot;][USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER], regarding your first point, I sure can&#039;t think of any.&nbsp; The cataloguing itself has been such a huge, continuously evolving project that the broader interpretive and contextual side ends up being relegated to a secondary role, relative to the attribution per se.&nbsp; The exceptions I&#039;m aware of are either regional studies or journal articles, both of course on a much less comprehensive scale.&nbsp; Adam&#039;s Corpus des Monnaies Féodales Champenoises (Troyes, 2018; sometimes for sale on the cgb website) evokes Metcalf and Malloy on coins of the crusader states, with concise historical introductions to each section.&nbsp; ...Best example that comes to mind. </p><p>...But otherwise, we&#039;re still in the early phases of &#039;mainstream&#039; historians fully acknowledging numismatic evidence; why shouldn&#039;t the converse be true?&nbsp; ...Come to think of it, has the integration of the two disciplines progressed much further with the English hammered series?&nbsp; Maybe by a <i>little</i>....</p><p>Regarding your endorsement of medieval French history generally, I for one can&#039;t agree with you more.&nbsp; During the Gothic era, France is effectively the cultural superpower.&nbsp; To that you can add the primarily French impetus of the Crusades, as Europe&#039;s leading experiment beyond its own borders.&nbsp; ...Not even sure it&#039;s an accident that the Renaissance follows on France&#039;s effective eclipse by the Hundred Years&#039; War.&nbsp; At that interval, needless to say, the whole continent&#039;s cultural center of gravity, so to speak, undergoes a major shift.&nbsp; ...And at least regarding the relation of cultural and political history, I for one think we can just shelve the notion that they aren&#039;t mutually integral.&nbsp; (...It&#039;s morning here; sorry (just not enough) for the verbosity.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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