Erm...

[stoutfellow]

I'm currently reading Brian Fagan's The Little Ice Age, on a recommendation from desert_vixen. I haven't gotten very far yet, but it's been interesting so far. However, I just ran into the following passage."Every man should have a lord", proclaimed the Treaty of Verdun in 843. Only the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in Constantinople were exempt from this stricture, and they were vassals of the Lord.
Um, the Holy Roman Emperor did not sit in Constantinople; that was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire...

Ah, well, I'm not reading the book for political history, but for climatological history.