It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good (c. 985)

Let’s go back to my actual research area for a post, shall we? You remember, perhaps—gosh, it seems a while ago—that in one of my two brief interludes of research leave in my previous job I got hold of the Barcelona volumes, nearly the last, of the monumental Catalunya Carolíngia project to publish all the pre-1000 charters preserved in Catalonia, and found numerous real gems in there?1 Or in some cases, the opposite, in the form of horrible people? Well, this is another