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 tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are handy for thinking about the past, but … Continue reading Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why…

Scientific research shows that rather than a victim of invasion, early medieval Britain was a cultural melting pot

The perpetual stew is a legend with more than a grain of truth.

We've used varieties of this grape since the Romans.