ReRouted By History
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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
If you caught @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social ‘s piece about overtourism in Europe—take a peek at a way to travel that avoids flooding the sites we hold so dear. As someone who relocated to Europe, I agree! jaywaytravel.com/blog/can-cus...
Can Custom Travel Fix Overtourism? JayWay Invites You To Travel
With low-cost airlines, glossy guidebooks, and of course, social media fueling a massive surge in travel, it's no surprise that overtourism has become an
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“At the center of the intellectual storm stood the most famous scholar in Europe: Desiderius Erasmus. His books traveled farther than armies. His Latin flowed through universities, monasteries, and courts. Printers from Basel to Venice competed to… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-schola...
The Scholar and the Storm: When Charles V Made Erasmus Councillor and the Reformation Took a Different Tact
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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The Scholar and the Storm: When Charles V Made Erasmus Councillor and the Reformation Took a Different Tact Stay tuned and subscribe for Monday’s release! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe
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? 🤔 reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/french-aff...
French Affair: The Queen’s Secret—Margaret of Anjou, Valois Agent in the English Crown
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-empero...
The Emperor's Gambit: Richard The Lionheart Stays In An Iron Cage and Europe Is Lit Aflame
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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...
The Real Spanish Princess: Margaret of Austria and the Southern System—When Peace Signed at Cambrai Lit the Mediterranean on Fire
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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“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-...
The Queen and The Maid: Catherine of Valois, Burgundy's Betrayal, Joan of Arc in Jeopardy, and the Second Hundred Years' Cold War
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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“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...
The Last Italian: When an Italic King Halted Henry II’s Holy Roman Empire
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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...
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“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...
The Silver That Failed: The Viking Occupation of Paris and the Death of Carolingian Authority
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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...
The Red Tiara: When Mazarin Abandoned France—and Turned Rome into Europe’s Command Center Again
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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...
The Templars’ Reckoning in Jerusalem: Crusade, Conspiracy, a Queen, and What Passed for Peace
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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-...
The Price of Italy: Silk, Arsenic, and Statecraft as Assessed by Two Principesse—Borgia and Este in Rivalry
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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...
When the Bulgars Blocked a Khan’s Conquest: The River That Refused the Horde
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe
“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...
The King Is Dead, Long Live...The Duke? William the Conqueror’s Broken Inheritance and the Norman War That Took England in Blood
A Series Of Little Known Inheritance Conflicts. War of Spanish Succession? Heard it. War of Austrian Succession? So done. How about…
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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 False Saint Who Lied So Well the World Had to Believe Him
From Boccaccio’s Decameron to our own age of persuasion, a tale rerouted to reveal hidden truths
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“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 Cut Loose: How Christmas Eve 1470 Ended Warwick’s Role in the War of the Roses and Secured Edward IV’s Crown
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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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! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe
“The warnings reached inland ahead of the wreck’s story, carried by an interpreter whose Japanese was trusted because it never sounded foreign…João Rodrigues. Christmas passed without bells. A hearth burned in Edo. Questions arrived clean + sequential… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-twe...
On The Twelfth Day...Shōgun’s Cut: A Christmas Story—Storm, Seduction, and the Moment Japan Took Control of the World That Sought It
12 Festive Frontiers: Christmas Counterfactuals Where History Held Its Breath At A Hinge
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I don’t claim to know the history of Asia-Pacific well. However, I do know accounts of it from interactions in Europe. This is to balance the 12 Festive Frontiers. On the 11th Day, coming up! Make sure to subscribe for its drop: reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
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I don’t claim to know the history of Asia-Pacific well. However, I do know accounts of it from interactions in Europe. This is to balance the 12 Festive Frontiers. On the 11th Day, coming up! Make sur...
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Reboot The Renaissance@rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 8mo ago“Please send your question before midnight EST on December 31st. I promise to approach it with the full Medici lens—historical memory, structural realism, and influence mapped across time rather than headlines. The predictions are free. The depth is optional… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...