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Stone castles have been something I've taken for granted regarding the Middle Ages. But it recently occurred to me that castles weren't really a thing in England until after the Norman invasion which were used as a way to control the Anglo-Saxons. Before then the closest example of sophisticated...

This may have been done, but I'm legitimately curious about Stephen I of the House of Blois winning the war in the era known as the Anarchy. I am curious as to how this might turn out. Ultimately, I have William, Count of Boulogne succeeding Stephen as William III. Would it be possible to create...

PLEASE NOTE BEFORE READING: I've already done extensive research into how these events leading up to the conquest of Rome would have occurred. It has nothing to do with bias toward Muslims, nor Christians, but based on some very peculiar situations many countries were finding themselves in...

Just mildly curious. I've noticed that the great majority of early feudal states in China had their names re-used by later states whose founders either had them as titles or were consciously attempting to call up their meanings and associations. Xià, Zhōu, Qín, Chǔ, Jìn, etc., all the great...

Many time ago in a galaxy far far away I made a thread where people gave me knowlegde (for free, mind you!) about the moroccan economy in the middle ages, now I need information about the french economy. My old thread...

In the typical Western view, could there be a non-clerical, hereditary, "feudal" title higher than emperor? Perhaps if the Mongols had taken over the Holy Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire and set up puppet states, the puppet states being led by figurehead emperor, then you could see Khagan as...

The Byzantine Dromon had lateen sails which could sail against the wind. What if sometime from 900-1100, the dromon made it to Iberia and France, where it could be refined to work on the Atlantic coast, creating an earlier 'caravel'? Remove the oars, add another mast of sails (which could easily...