middle ages

PROLOGUE "...in late November, Prince William set out with several of his father's courtiers from Barfleur to Pevensey in England, in a ship captained by the son of the man who ferried his grandfather back in 1066. This voyage would always be viewed as something of an embarrassment by King...

Io Mihailŭ, Împĕratul Românilor Io Michael, Emperor of the Romanians A Michael the Brave Romania Wank a.k.a. RomaniaWank Version 2. Part One The Birth and Growth of Romania (Very) Short Synopsis: On 9 August 1601, Michael the Brave (Mihai Viteazul) had a dream that changed the World...

How would late 13th century Scottish history develop if Alexander III. didn't die due to a riding accident in 1286 ? His death led to a major succession crisis in Scottish history, to a period of regency for his grand-daughter and potential heiress Margaret of Norway, and eventually culminated...

Hey there AH.com. I've been a member here for a few years now, and a huge fan of the Eastern Roman Empire and its history. Despite my decently good knowledge of the state, I've always been wary of attempting to do a timeline on the subject matter as I haven't felt confident in my abilities to...

Something that has fascinated me for a long time and our Scottish members might be able to answer well... I'll admit, I got the idea from this episode of Time Team. Back in the Middle Ages, Roxburgh was one of the most developed Scottish cities, and for a fairly long time, it was a flourishing...

This is a Slovak/Hungarian medieval POD that's been kicking around in my head for several years now. For info on the Battle of Rozhanovce, click here, here and here. In OTL, at one point in the battle, king Charles I.'s troops were overwhelmed. It got so bad that even the king's standard...

What butterflies can to make the south-eastern Poland remained an independent state with a separate language ? Would be possible surviving a Vistulan/Chrobatian state in region dominated by expansive neighbors: Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, Kievan Ruthenia ?

I was always a bit disappointed that relatively few medieval stone churches and stone castles have survived on Iceland and in Finland to the present day. I recently read about the Hvalsey church in eastern Greenland, one of the few well-preserved Scandinavian churches from the Nordic island...

With a POD no later than 1420 but no earlier than 1395 AD, let Novgorod stay independent and not become absorbed by the other Russian principalities. Try to do it as plausibly as possible, take the economic vulnerabilities into account (Novgorod needing to import quite a lot of grain, mainly...