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Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped. open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
The Scholar and the Storm: When Charles V Made Erasmus Councillor and the Reformation Took a Different Tact
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French Affair: The Queen’s Secret—Margaret of Anjou, Valois Agent in the English Crown
What if Margaret of Anjou was truly a spy in the House of Lancaster? 🤔
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French Affair: The Queen’s Secret—Margaret of Anjou, Valois Agent in the English Crown
What if the accusation were true? Margaret of Anjou was already accused by Yorkist propaganda of being a French puppet…Stay tuned and subscribe for Monday’s release! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe
The Emperor's Gambit: Richard The Lionheart Stays In An Iron Cage and Europe Is Lit Aflame
Richard I of England is alive, caged, furious.
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor believes he holds a lever that can bend England.
The chess board of Europe waits.
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Sir Winston Churchill reportedly said to an airman he bestowed the Victoria Cross upon for valor: “You must been rather humble and awkward in my presence, but think how humble and awkward that I feel in yours.” Churchill would’ve said the same about the people of Ukraine now 4 years in. Salut them.
Counterfactuals always scribble the rewriting of Richard The Lionheart as: what if we eluded captivity or escaped early—some if he stayed in the Levant? But, we are taking a different view: what if he was never released? 🤔 Emperors, Pontiffs, and, of course, Eleanor—oh my! Stayed tuned tomorrow.
“Margaret’s envoys increased pressure. Papists invoked Christian unity. Rome’s memory of the 1527 sack remained raw. Genoese captains quietly calculated profit margins: protected convoy versus independent risk. Spanish tercios in Naples stood as silent reminder... open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“Catherine commands time. Rather than a righteous struggle. She frames. Speaks of trusteeship rather than conquest. Legalism. Cities listen. Princes calculate. The Maid advances toward danger. The war prepares to choose between bloodline and belief... reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-queen-...
“Something decisive has occurred. Italy has demonstrated a talent Empire does not possess: the ability to make conquest expensive without making it glorious. To make it foolish, not imminent. Make it sniveling not strong. The idea Italy be crossed... reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
You most likely don’t know his name but he was the final Italic king of Italy. Everyone is obsessed with “The Last Roman.” How about if The Last Italian stopped The Holy Roman Empire’s march to Rome to inherit Italy in 1014? Oh, worlds are turned at such thoughts… substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
“For Charles the Bald, the bargain was rational. Paris mattered too much to lose outright and too little to justify ruinous war every time a dragon prow cut the horizon. Paying to make the problem leave preserved something more valuable than coin: the appearance of rule. substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
“But the Vikings were changing. Raids had taught them the map. Ransoms had taught them the math. Movement had taught them fatigue. What compounded power was routine: silver that arrived every season without rowing. In 865, a Viking host took Paris… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Did you know the Vikings occupied the Seine and Paris itself in 865? Charles The Bald ended up buying them off to depart. But what if his silver failed? The Vikings rebuffed him. And there was a Viking Paris? Stay tuned for our rerouted of how it could have happened…
“Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, carrying two reputations that rarely coexist: the quiet architect of French ascendancy and the most distrusted man in Italy. Paris knew him as keeping a fragile regency upright. Rome knew him as a problem waiting to be solved reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-red-ti...
Do you know Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino of my native Abruzzo in Italia? How about I francophone it: Cardinal Jules Mazarin. The architect of French foreign and domestic policy after Richelieu. What if he leveraged his wily talents to favor his native land over the ungrateful Bourbons? Stay tuned!
“Here’s where we see history hinge that reroutes history forever. Sibylla listens.The utter pragmatist, she knew Guy would not effect any sort of rebalancing of the scales. She chooses preservation over spiritual zealotry—or consternating incompetence reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-templa...
So sorry for the delay! I moved to Prague to escape the U.S. regime, I shall be back to posting very regularly, again! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-price-...
Lucrezia House of Borgia and and Isabella House of Este nearly plunged Italy in another half a century of strife…over silk. What if they had? Stay tuned for: The Price of Italy: Silk, Arsenic, and Statecraft as Assessed by Two Principesse—Borgia and Este in Rivalry. open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“Mud swallowed speed. Hooves churned. The riverbanks closed. Drums faltered. From reeds and willow, Bulgar infantry surged forward with hooked spears. They dragged riders down. They stabbed through mail at the armpit and groin. They cut reins and… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/when-the-b...
The Volga Bulgaria (1223–1224) was a forgotten Mongol defeat that occurred in real history. But what if elements coalesced to block entirely a Horde invasion of Europe? Well, it nearly happened…stay tuned in ReRouted By History.
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“The hinge of our rerouted arrives in 1096. Robert refuses Crusade. Publicly, he calls Normandy to account rather than pilgrimage. A levy replaces vows. Grain replaces glory. Coin replaces distance. The reaction? Knights curse. Rome fumes. Rufus rages… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-king-i...
William The Conqueror left his 1087 inheritance in the most contested way possible: splitting it amongst his three sons. Did he think he was Charlemagne? Resulting in the decades long Wars of the Brothers. But what if the board had titled every so slightly?… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe
“Adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron and rerouted for the present, this essay examines how institutions, incentives, and repetition collaborate to elevate a practiced liar into a stabilizing symbol of public faith. Day I, Tale 1. Familiar? 🤔 reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-false-...
“The pattern is unmistakable now. Seas had sunk a ship. Sex had broken bridges. Steel has ended a faction. Silence has been replaced by consequence. Those who remain around Warwick do so out of habit or fear vs. conviction. The world has withdrawn... reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-kingma...
The Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, cut loose on Christmas Eve, 1470? You will not want to miss today’s bonus edition of Festive Frontiers on how the Wars of the Roses could have been rerouted with one single act. Become a paid subscriber today!
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