The challenge is to get Archbishop Thomas Becket to successfully depose the King of England and establish a Theocracy in its place.
What would be the butterflies?
What would be the butterflies?
Were that to happen (and I'm not sure how it could), it might help avoid some of the anarchy and succession wars that marked the next several centuries in England. Given how the monastical system was implemented, managed and expanded, there may have also been some improved commercial development.
Alternatively, it all could have gone very bad,...
I wonder what the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor would think of a King-Archbishop of England.
"Why can't you all be more like Beckett?"
Given that it raises interesting questions about given that Beckett (King-Archbishop or not) is most definitely a Spiritual Vassal to the Pope, is he also temporally a Vassal?