HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY @jtpmedieval.bsky.social!!!
@jtpmedieval.bsky.socialHad to check that the new Silent Hill game set around where I live gets things right and yep I've parked there in the fog...
James T Palmer
@jtpmedieval.bsky.social
Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
@jtpmedieval.bsky.social@jtpmedieval.bsky.socialBook launch of "Charlemagne's Dream" at Toppings Bookstore St Andrews yesterday - good times. (photo courtesy of my 12yo who seems to be mastering real cameras)
@jtpmedieval.bsky.socialSeen in the wild already in Pennsylvania! And with some good company.
@profgabriele.comReposted by @jtpmedieval.bsky.social
@basicbooksgroup.bsky.socialReposted by @jtpmedieval.bsky.socialDiscover the remarkable rise and fall of the Carolingians in CHARLEMAGNE'S DREAM by @jtpmedieval.bsky.social—a sweeping history of the dynasty that forged the Middle Ages and shaped Europe as we know it.
Out now! Learn more: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james...
@historytoday.comReposted by @jtpmedieval.bsky.social#Charlemagne’s death in 814 spelled disaster for the Carolingian Empire. The centre could not hold; within 40 years, the dynasty dissolved into chaos.
🔒 James T. Palmer’s October article is available in the archive
@jtpmedieval.bsky.socialSee also "Crude periodisation rarely reveals very much except about the prejudices and interests of the people doing it" (Merovingian Worlds, 2024, p. 269).
@jtpmedieval.bsky.socialFor @drdragases.bsky.social (tidied up from yesterday)
@jtpmedieval.bsky.socialFewer jokes than in the book alas
@jtpmedieval.bsky.socialIf you count "authoritarian regimes don't last forever"
@jtpmedieval.bsky.socialAuthor copies for Charlemagne's Dream... and new History Today magazine with an essay on the rise and fall of the Carolingians!
