Search results

I like how the pre 1054 Church is portrayed as this beacon of unity!

An update on where I'm up to... The bad news is I'm yet to actually write any new content: but I've re-read IE2 from the reign of Eirene Naupliotissa onwards, plus taken a look at some of the supplementary material written ten years ago plus IE version 1. Incidentally, if any fans of the TL...

Now I'm under pressure! I'll try to get something posted in the coming days- though quite what is a mystery.

Good post- from my (limited) understanding this sounds about right.

Great minds, eh? So far I'm not promising anything and not sure where I'll go- a continuation of the main TL, or some "revisionist" historical analysis. IE is, after all, a popular history written either in-TL or by somebody with access to in-TL resources, so I might have a try at doing some...

Would anybody be interested in some new IE content?

Re Arabs ITTL- Arabia experienced similar inflows of Roman wealth as Germania did, especially in the OTL sixth century. It's worth pointing out, though, that even after the conquests Arabia itself never really dominated the old East Roman and Iranian heartlands in the way Northern Europe came to...

Yes- but of course there's no particular reason to think Arabs would get anywhere near Roman Africa with a POD in 379. I'd suggest the greater threat to Africa probably lies with the development of the "Mauri" Berber polities, though this too will look different. I've seen it convincingly argued...

First AH.com posting for a while... And in short sure, it's perfectly easy to envisage a later imperial collapse. Let's say the Goths are destroyed as a force on Roman territory in the 380s, and the invasions of the early 400s are dealt with too- a run of good luck for the Empire, but nothing...

Diocletian lived two centuries after Nero! Do you mean Vespasian? Anyway, it's Augustus.

No, I wasn't referring to any "superiority" in either direction. My argument was, with a post-1050 POD that removes the Turks from the scene, I think it's easier to envisage a counterfactual that sees continuing Byzantine expansion in the east than it is to envisage a revival of central Sunni...

Thought I'd weigh in on this- though I'll plead I've not read any properly academic works on the matter in a while now. My short answer is that the wars were won by the Seljuk Turks. Prior to their interruption onto the scene, though, I think it's fairly reasonable to argue that the Byzantine...

Controversial, but how about removing Stilicho from the scene altogether? I know the guy is well-liked, but it was he who stripped troops out of Gaul and moved them into Illyria to play games with the ERE over Balkan territory. Keep the soldiers in Gaul and keep relations with Constantinople on...

To do it you need a good reason to draw imperial attention to the region. My thought is something like the OTL situation of Armenia in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries developing around the fringes of Arabia: small kingdoms and principalities, sometimes under the notional leadership of a...

Not abandoned: but on certainly on hiatus for now, I'm afraid. I've been doing a bit of "fake history" of a made up world in this thread, if you're at all interested.

It's difficult to say, I'd suggest, as we don't know an awful lot about the character of Romanos II. I think he'd probably try to continue the policies of his father and grandfather in attempting to control the eastern Dynatoi as his sons did IOTL, but it's difficult to say how effective he'd be...

Not quite an AH question, but a project I've been given at work and one that the board is the obvious place to come to. What were the major arguments raised in the period 1750-1850 against the idea of the abolition of slavery: and specifically, does anybody know any online resources from where...

It's a scenario I've thought about. My vague idea was a fall of Constantinople in the 670s, followed by an Arab conquest that takes in Thrace and the approximate territory of modern Greece, but fails to penetrate much further due to internal issues in the Caliphate. The conquest of Africa fails...

Thanks very much, everybody. Unfortunately, the realities of life means IE is indefinitely on hold, but I'm sure I'll return to it at some point: I still think about ideas for the future of the TL a lot, and if anybody ever wants to contribute to the IE universe then I'd be delighted to help...