Recent content by Kerney

I truthfully don't see it happening without at least some of those, probably 'encouraged' by the Ottomans. In the Balkans, identity is tied to religion and it's hard to give those up when their such a knot.

A Norse Wank. 878, Guthrum defeats Alfred the alt-Great. Dead Alfred is no longer building monasteries to convert the heathen. English cultural practices, use of runic writing in daily life, dress, intermarriage is all tending Norse, like it was in the Danelaw OTL until the reconquest reversed...

Industrialization, at least as we know it fed off things like New World crops, rubber (also New World), the printing press, international trade and had a feedback effect, really starting to take off in 1492, though there are roots earlier. In 1348, the pieces weren't in place. On the other...

I was just trying to think of reasons Elizabeth would be dead in 1558 other than execution, which, I think, Elizabeth has the instincts to avoid. Since we were talking about other heirs, I was assuming dead child too.

It wouldn't be the first priority. And yes Margaret and Mary were close. But what if the point in excluding the Scottish line, is to guard against Mary QoS and any future kids she might have with the King of France. Can't let the French get their hands on England. Just like Edward the VI otl...

Keeping with Henry the 8th's will, where the Scottish line is ruled out and some sort of in TL expediency. Yes, said will was dead letter in 1603, but not in 1553 and I don't think in 1558 either.

Speaking of young girls besides Elizabeth who could get a good Catholic education starting at age nine and six respectively, Jane and Katherine Grey. A fun irony would be for Mary to try name Jane her heir.

Saxons join the Danes, Norwegians and Swedes in visiting monasteries and taking home souvenirs. Maybe Frisians join the fun.

I think you hit on something. Egypt was Hellenized, Christianized, Islamicized and Arabized until links, while still there, are tenuous. But it went through multiple cycles before it became something else. On the other hand, you can go to Northern Europe, and you can make an argument that you...

It might be undercut as well because the traditional institutions/religions were working well. In contrast, in otl, the biggest watershed where the numbers of Christians increased pre-Constantine, was the Cyprian Plague of the 250s-260s, where traditional beliefs were not holding off disaster...

I could be they get that support from Romano British refugees, assuming an earlier crisis in Britain from Franco-Saxons. That in turn could have some other knock off effects, something like a weaker or differ British holdouts, say something like a Dummonia tied to the Gallo Roman entity...

There are 3-4 Kings that are 'Age Changers' as in England was never the same. Alfred The Great for not being an unwilling participant in a Viking victory celebration/sacrifice and gradually starting the uniting of England. William the Conquer for Conquest and lots of French loan words. Henry...

They are descended from vile usurpers of House Wessex. For Pendragon and Albion, no member of the British Royal Family has, to my knowledge, encountered strange ladies lying in ponds distributing swords (but that would make a great ASB TL, especially if the 'wrong' sibling got it) required for...

The topic involves ALTERNATE HISTORY and this specifically a SPECULATIVE example of how a victorious Confederacy might work around parts of their constitution which get in the way of governing. If you had read my post or what I was quoting that should be obvious. Don't know if you're trying to...

A lot people who opposed seccesion never the less supported their state and fought for the Confederacy. A lot of people served in the Army, and like the Continental army before it suffered from the deficiencies of the government they defended and want it fixed. Lots of ex soldiers know how to...