This week and next, we’re going to look at an issue not of battles, but of settings: pre-modern cities – particularly the trope of the city, town or castle set out all alone in the midd…
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te…
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing
This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the patterns of life for the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of hu…
Libraries for the future: Europe’s new wave of ‘meeting places for the mind’
From Ghent’s De Krook to Helsinki’s Oodi, recent civic constructions have shared a vision of the library as a living room for the modern city
Walled Haven
《Walled Haven》An open world action-adventure set in the Walled City, a dystopian metropolis where Kung Fu decides all.
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More
This is the start of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the structures of life for pre-modern peasants, who made up the majority of all humans w…
Ludgate Hill, London late 1800s. Alternative concept for railways in cities?
268 votes, 14 comments. 101K subscribers in the anno community. A subreddit dedicated to the video game series Anno. The most recent entry Anno 11…
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of al…
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End
This is the second part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern p…
Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
This is the long-awaited first part of a series (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers…
Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part II: Total Warg
This is the second part of a series taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII), from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers (1954) and Peter…
Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part IV: Men of Rohan
This is the fourth part of a series taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers (1954) and Peter …
Summary of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: by Thom…
Summary of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thoma…
Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part VII: Hanging by a Thread
This is the seventh part of a series taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers (1954) and Peter Jackson’s 2…
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days
This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers R…
