The Franks built a lot actually, especially fortifications. While a lot were on existing sites, it would incorrect to say that all they did was "squat". If you examine a site like Ascalon, it was...
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The Franks built a lot actually, especially fortifications. While a lot were on existing sites, it would incorrect to say that all they did was "squat". If you examine a site like Ascalon, it was...
Bit of a bad generalisation. Salt manufacture was a major industry in the late Iron Age Essex coast, and was viably done using the same methods since the Bronze Age and into the Roman period. All you...
On Guy Fawkes night they set off a huge load of fireworks from inside the castle. It's freakin' awesome.
http://i4.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article1995871.ece/alternates/s615/fireworks-96059851.jpg
I'm pretty lucky in that this is a few miles up the road from me.
http://www.cityofcardiff.com/visitwales/caerphilly.jpg
Essential reading for the topic of Crusader archaeology: Denys Pringle
Post-Roman Britain is a great topic to discuss. Unfortunately the lack of evidence, historical and archaeological, means these arguments rarely get any further than hypotheses that can't really be...
That was pretty much exclusive to the Templars in France though (other kings were far less harsh, except maybe in Cyprus but that was due to political ill-will). They had already confessed (those who...
William of Tyre (I think) wrote about how the Templars killed an Assassin envoy in an ambush in order to prevent him returning home with the alliance/peace he had arranged with the Franks. There's no...
You did say they were forts though.
It was always useful to a king to attack a group you owed money too, that way to could seize their stuff and not pay them back. Philip IV we can see was in so much debt he attacked the Jews, the...
The growth of administration you speak of is normally associated with the Angevins rather than Normans. Many often refer to Stenton's "leap forward" in methods of royal government during the mid-12th...
Maybe learned from missionaries making their way into the British Isles the same way Mediterranean pottery was being imported during much of the post-Roman period.
Or rather, remember that the...
Best to do it for Henry II, John, Richard and Henry III though. Henry relinquished the family claim to Normandy and Anjou in the mid-13th century, although the Capetians had ruled the areas since...
The 'early' Plantagenets, from the point of view of English history, would be the Angevins (aka the Devil's Brood) - Henry II, Richard I, John, and Henry III. Family names, per se, weren't as common...
Yes although it's based on the Third Crusade and the writings of William of Tyre.
You sort of have a point, though the differences between Wales and England, and Cumbria and Scotland are too numerous to make the comparison of any use. By the 7th century Cumbria was English, i.e....
It was in response to the 'Dark Age Wales' section of the question. So roughly 5th-7th centuries.
There's also the growing danger to Christian pilgrims due to Muslim disunity and lack of centralized power. Something shown by events such as the Great German Pilgrimage. Although the treatment of...
Actually the Wal- part of Wallace comes from the Old English word for foreigner, as is Wales and other place names in Britain with Wal- at the beginning, e.g. Walton.
Cymru, Cambria and Cumbria...
Well I have Welsh and Scottish grandparents on my mothers side, and English probably descended from Irish on my fathers (Gaelic name), so naturally the foot chart says I'm a cross between a Greek and...
The Norwegians from Norway settled in the Isles and West in small, rural settlements and by this time were truly settled down and most likely Christian.
The Norwegians from Dublin in the 9th...
Norwegian Pagans pushing from the West to conquer Scotland is a bit less real than "100% historical accuracy".
A bit early for the raiding and enslavement of Irish people.
a) That's not stopping the Norse players being hostile to them is it? Get together your armies and kill them if they try to do stupid things.
(Plus, surely the game mechanics don't support external...
I just think it was a bit harsh to not allow someone to play a Frank. I mean, I don't see why you would want to sign up to a Norse game and play a Frank, but banning based on historical...
Of course they didn't explode out of Scandinavia in 793. Evidence shows contact occurred on a scale greater than "the odd Scandinavian trader", something that goes for contact between most peoples in...
Vendel & Sutton Hoo? (compare the burials) Scandinavia was not a forgotten or unknown part of the world, they had been interacting with the rest of Europe for centuries. Unless by 'Vikings' you mean...
In England, Henry VIII marks the start of the Modern period (more precisely, early Modern which is around 1500-1700).
Lots of non-beer over Christmas but more recently Emelisse Imperial Russian Stout, and the Peated White Label Version made with peated whisky malt. Both great.
Tonight I had Dupont Avec les Bons...
No LW. Just get an original idea, this is getting pretty ridiculous.
I get your point and I do think it's cool Taleworlds are simply going "here's what we've got", and not the crap that's been coming from CA since Empire and Napoleon. However it's also disappointing...
Very simplified.
The best setting for conniving would be any time before the reign of Henry III. Before him, when the king died it was always hard to ensure a smooth succession, a classic GSTK scenario everybody...
I assumed he was asking after Early Anglo-Saxon buildings (5th-7th century)...
Ah the arguing. The thing that will always be wherever GSTK is.
It doesn't look very alive to me.
That sounds really cool provided you can get the info on it. Only trouble I can think of is that concentrating on the Empire as a whole in a decent amount of depth would require reading through lots...
Yes that's correct (the first bit about harassing - knightly cavalry to form the main attack, infantry to mop up and exploit any weaknesses, and archers to attack opportunistically when needed), but...
Mrs. Mainwaring of course.