Or did the king actually gave titles to cannon fodder(sword fodder?) plebian enlisted men?
I'm building a world that at this point of its history has technology level of roughly 1600s-1700s. Flintlock firearms as the most typical weapons in use.
So, in a fairly large country that is an absolute monarcy, a large amount of students of a military academy are protesting against taxation and government seizing land for itself.
How would the government deal with them effectively? I feel just killing a bunch of soldiers-in-training is bound to make your existing army uneasy and cause more unrest.
What I was thinking is rhag maybe they'd simply blockade the school and wait for them to grow tired and hungry and turn themselves in. But you'd need half a division for that, and it'd be a constant reminder of the issue and bring them attention at least.
Lastly giving in to their demands would probably just inspire more protests(?), I think.
Saw this on VHS in the early 90s as a kid, although could also just be a weird amalgamation of random tv I saw back then. But as my memory tells me, they definitely opened a crate of bubble gum before the big battle... for some reason.
Platform(s): PC (likely)
Genre: life sim, RPG, open world
Estimated year of release: based on graphics I'd say around 95' but I've been made aware of it in around 2017, so possibly it is simply stylized as retro
Graphics/art style: pixelated and simplistic with a very-low res sprite models, realistic map even if a little pixelated
Notable characters: none to my knowledge, story of a game seems to not be relying on them
Notable gameplay mechanics: travel through the Middle East and the South-Eastern Europe as an early-medieval caravanner, map supposedly to scale of the real world with villages (most of which likely randomly generated) acting as nodes, between which you can travel physically not by loading screens, where you can stop and exchange goods and talk to NPCs, additionally caravan members consist of people conscripted by the player from those villages - the closest game the overworld seems to have anything in common is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall but only in map.
Other details (more of a warning to consider): I've seen it a chunk of time ago as a part of a youtube video essay I've forgotten the specifics of, where it was shown and described thusly. Given that I'm asking to find a game I only had glimpsed and been described to, an amount of time ago long enough for a mind to forget much of, the above description may differ from reality significantly, and I only hope it wasn't a fever dream I had.
We all know about colonial China when the British Empire was kicking around the area, we know that China had some contact with Japan during the samurai hayday in the late and post sengoku jidai period, we know about the famed rise of communism over there too. However, China is a wonderful country beyond the oppressive regimes its sadly slagged with nowadays (not that there werent other moments of tyranny in the past mind you, just nothing like THIS...), it has a beautiful culture, and a fascinating history to boot.
Therefore, I ask that, besides the Three Kingdoms period of China that gets beat to heck and back in terms of how often it gets representation in popular media, what other periods from Chinese history can you suggest I look into? What other dynasties, points in time, would prove interesting for my own historic curiosity? Are there any periods which detail a history just as storied and fascinating as the Three Kingdoms period? Surely there must be, right?
Examples of this include Paris, which was 'Lutetia Parisiorum' or 'Lutetia of the Parisii', but Lutetia was dropped completely and it became Parisius and then Paris.
Another example is Rheims which was called Durocortorum Remorum (from the Remi tribe), but dropped Durocortorum. Saintes was Mediolanum Santonum (Named after the Santones tribe) but dropped Mediolanum. Is there a reason the french got rid of the Romanized parts of their names but kept the tribal connection? Were these tribes, or connections to these tribes, still around after centuries of Roman rule? Did the locals associate more with the Gallic tribes or with the Gallo-Roman culture that developed over 400 years of occupation?
I'd like to know your opinion about this kind of death sentence, which I've read many times it was considered the most shameful, as was crucifixion before Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christ; usually reserved for traitors, petty thieves and low-life criminals, especially in comparison with beheading, which was regarded as a honorable way of dying, reserved for nobles. Thanks a lot!
Cf. for example:
Giovanni De Luna, Il corpo del nemico ucciso (2006);
Samuel Edgerton Jr, Pictures and Punishment: Art and Criminal Prosecution during the Florentine Renaissence (1985);
Robert Mills, Suspended Animation. Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (2005);
Gherardo Ortalli, La pittura infamante: Secoli XIII-XVI (1979);
Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness. Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe (2020).
A game similar to mordhau, but a singleplayer game, perhaps where you play as a soldier in the middle of the 100 years war or something similar?
If anyone knows if something like this exists please let me know.
I'm interested in some eras of history that are a bit more obscure or off the beaten path of the most popular times, like the late Roman and early Byzantine era (Late Antiquity and the early Dark Ages, barbarian kingdoms, the migration era, etc. roughly AD 300-700), as well as the Hellenistic era (like the various successor realms of Alexander, about 300-100 BC) or even the Bronze Age circa the Trojan War (1200-1100 BC).
I know there are plenty of reenactors that focus on Classical Rome, like the two centuries before and after Christ, or Classical Greece around the time of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, or the High Middle Ages or Vikings, but does anyone know of any groups or locations where people do some of the eras I mentioned? Or would you have to join one of these bigger/more common ones and hope they also occasionally do that stuff?
The poem itself is culturally important, and according to the testimony of SΓΌreyya Bedir Khan, a descendant of Mir of Botan, was found engraved on an amulet.
The poem can be found here with source in the bottom for further reading.
While we are not sure about the exact date of the poem, we can surmise a that it was anytime between the arab invasion of Mesopotamia/Kurdistan to early 1200s which is the latest reliable mention of Zoroastrian Kurds (i.e. not of the modern movement).
See below about this last mention;
Written by a certain Bar Habraeus who was a Maphrian (regional primate) of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1264 to 1286.
He writes;
"In the year 602 of the Arabs (A.D. 1205) the Kurds who were in the mountains of Medes [referring to the Zagros mountains near Hulwan] and who are called Tirahaye, came down from the mountains, and wrought great destruction in those countries. .. Now these mountaineers had not entered the Faith of the Muslims, but they had adopted the primitive paganism and Magianism.β
It also worth noting, while this is the last reliable mention of explicity Zoroastrian Kurds, religions closely related to Zoroastrianism continued to thrive in Kurdistan to a relative degree. Furthermore, as per a FEZANA article, Zoroastrianism among Kurds of Iraq never actually died out but continued in secret due to religious persecution.
For any interested, I'd like to present the new subreddit /r/kurdishzoroastrian
Bede tells us that the cleric Hadrian, who was to become an Abbot of Canterbury, was "by nation an African", and at the Niridian monastery, not far from Naples, prior to being sent by the Pope to Britain (Eccles. 4.1). When he did travel to Britain, he was accompanied by the monk Theodore, "born at Tarsus in Cilicia" (ibid.).
How was it that a man from North Africa found himself in a monastery in Italy, before travelling to Britain with an Anatolian man for company? How well connected was Early Medieval Europe and North Africa? Were these international connections facilitated by the church, or was such long-distance travel available to non-clergy people?
Any sources would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
With Norse raids on Christian monasteries in the late 8th through early 11th centuries being so common, were defense forces of any kind appointed to guard them? Monasteries in Ireland Scotland and England are usually depicted as helpless sitting duck targets, but is this accurate?
Hello guys this is bugging me for a while now. The game is like a mixture of Diablo I with a town where you would upgrade your itens ( the town was not isometric).
I remember some of the magic spells like prismatic ray, and poison cloud.
It was really difficult, the last campaign was hard even with cheats.
The town drawing was really beautiful but it looked like the age of empires 2 menu.
Thanks in advance for any help
I am interested in understanding in detail how the warrior class worked in any of the northern European early medieval societies. As I understand it there was an at least semi-hereditary class of a warrior elite that in many cases were the only participants in warfare. This contradicts the pop-culture representation of early-medieval warfare, where a warband often consists of a lord and his war-trained subjects or servants, who are not part of an elite societal class.
The questions that I would like to know the answers to include but are not limited to:
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Roughly how large a proportion of the total (male) population did the warrior class represent?
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Were most, or all members of the warrior class landed? Were they considered nobility?
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Were members of the warrior class generally "equals", or did they generally form a hierarchy (where some were vassals and others lords)? If so, did the lords generally provide payment for the vassals? Did the vassals own land?
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Did training for combat play a large part, or did actual combat serve as training? If they did, how did they train? How much did they train? When and where would they meet for training, and who commanded/organized the training?
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How does the concept of household warriors/housecarls fit into this? Were they men with property who happened to also serve as elite warriors, or were they servants that were not considered part of the warrior elite class?
In general any information on the warrior class and the role it played in society in any early medieval society north of the Alps would be welcome.
Was featured a while ago on splatercatgaming. I have gone through his youtube catalog and I can't find it. Looking to see if it's on sale during the winter sale. Please help. Looking for something new to play with some downtime.
Itβs high on adventure low on politics and war. So want something without a huge elephant in the room event haha would dominate and not allow for fun adventure. A timeline with some good fun entertaining reference novels or movies would be a bonus!
Appreciate it. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
At the point that I'm at in the book there have been two accounts of witchcraft: One how certain medical problems of his were solved by "magical" means that seems somewhat plausible (p. 80f), and the one in question that seems unlikely (p. 116f). He tells how a witch offered him a means of escape by summoning a black cow that would carry him in one day and night from bohemia to his home town of Miltenberg. Would a person at that time have offered this? It's obviously an impossible feat, so why pretend to have such magical powers? Especially since from my understanding it would be dangerous for the person to be seen as a witch.
Is the story more likely to be hearsay that he repeated or a cautionary tale intended for his younger brother for whom he originally wrote the book?
Page numbers refer to the 1988 edition from Union Verlag Berlin
It's my understanding that most kingdoms in the early middle ages lacked the requisite logistics to maintain large scale professional armies. So my question is when an army was necessary how would a king go about seeing his drafted peasants trained into something more than just a mob of armed men? Additionally how would they go about procuring men? I assume each vassal lord would be required to supply a certain number of soldiers to the king but how would they go about raising those men? To my knowledge there weren't widespread census information that could be used as lists of men in each village that were eligible for service, so it seems it would be difficult to find (and force?) men to serve especially if they were unwilling to leave their families for long periods of time to go fight a foreign war. With that in mind how would religion work as a motivator for service in the army? Any info you can give on any of these questions or about early medieval armies would be greatly appreciated.
I remember playing this game on my pc on the early 2000s, it looked like a late 80s/90s game, it was a beat em up with multiple characters to chose from, I only remember 2 tho, a wizard and a barbarian/Knight, and their weapons were a staff and shield and sword respectively. As you advanced through the levels your weapons would level up after some of them. The game could've been an emulator of an arcade, but I'm not sure. SOLVED, THE KING OF DRAGONS SNES/ARCADE
