With no responses to my first post (admittedly this is probably my own fault for posing questions with too broad a scope and in the wrong section of the forum) I thought I’d try a different tack.
I recently read and enjoyed the comic Pax Romana, a bit of light AH reading.
If you could travel back to any time or place in the Middle Ages (for the purposes of this discussion, we’ll define the period as the 5th-15th centuries) with the aim of influencing the course of human history (perhaps for the better, perhaps for the worse, it’s up to you) where would you choose to go and why? Let us assume that you have some means of fluent communication with the people in question and that you’re able to get yourself into a position where you’ll be at least listened to (as opposed to say, killed outright) if not outright able to exert direct influence.
What would you do and what key butterflies and events do you think would occur in the timeline that followed?
Thanks for your time and consideration.