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🚨Episode 15 What is Feudalism? Was it just slavery with extra steps? Very excited to bring you this clarifying look at the medieval period and one of the most misunderstood topics -- Feudalism! With @ProfLRoach All links to listen below! 👇 and as always, appreciate any…
I am more recently of the opinion that Alexios deserves a better understanding from the Western perspective. Late last year I read Byzantium and the Crusades by @Jonatha63836285 and am on the final pages of The First Crusade by @peterfrankopan (aspiring to do a podcast episode…
Also not providing them with provisions and local guides. He played the....i will let my enemies bleed each other out game and thus Byzantium today is no more.
I would like to add, if you understand the basics of game theory this is very easy to comprehend. In game theory, within the available parameters of the game (war), all participants will arrive at some sort of equilibrium. This is referred to as the "meta". Essentially all…
This is often said of medieval knights. Even contemporaries of the time said it, Froissart most notably (after Crecy or Poiters, I forget which). But I think there is a real failing of the modern mind (generally) to understand the way of the warrior here. And (you may be tired…
Built in the so-called Dark Ages, this isn’t fantasy, it’s Rocher Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe near Le Puy-en-Velay, France. Pilgrims once climbed this for salvation. You can do it for awe.
There are few things on Earth more impressive than medieval castles. Bamburgh Castle, England (1095)
The most common pictoral representation of Bohemond is the portrait (first pictured) by Merry-Joseph Blondel. However, Bohemond probably looked more like a clean-shaven pewdiepie with a bit of a more Norman hairstyle (uncommonly, not shoulder length but above the ears), on a…
Is there a better sports team shirt than the one that has the battle of Milvian Bridge on it?
Maybe you like. Maybe you request.
Your followers may like it that i am now taking historical figure sketch requests! x.com/begynnynge/sta…
The wisdom of the legend of St George: - The dragon wants children - The men who are too scared to fight make a deal with it - Their cowardice means the sacrifice of their children to the dragon - This continues until someone brave comes along and puts an end to it
In 1062, Emperor Constantine X *might* have sent an embassy to Anti-Pope Honorius II proposing: 1) acceptance of universal papal authority, 2) willingness to accept the pope and western emperor as fellow Romans, 3) a suggestion to campaign to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. 🧵
"Ha ha they died a thousand miles from home of disease" said the comfortable dweeb, at home on the couch, covered in Cheeto dust.
50% of them shat themselves to death in the desert. 🤡✝️
Kind of hard to believe these guys ever lost a battle
You need to read Dante's Inferno.🔥 We have 7 episodes up and posted to help you read the Inferno. You can start today.🔥 Read it now so you can read PURGATORIO with us next Lent (Spring 2026).🔥
Someone who is not as widely known who deserves more respect for his valiant nature as a warrior is Tancred, Prince of Galilee. He was an Italo-Norman leader of the First Crusade. Tancred is described by Ralph of Caen as "a very pious, violent hawk of a man. He was a shrewd,…
Richard the Lionheart by Hong Wen— Can't really blame the Saracens for panicking when they saw this Gigachad in the fray. One of Saladin’s emirs wrote of the Crusaders:“There is something especially amazing about one of them. He threw our people into disorder and destroyed them.…