Forum: Story Recommendations

Argon has a couple of other candidates:
- https://storiesonline.net/s/72279/the-tales-of-tanitsar
- https://storiesonline.net/s/12076/constable-hereward-and-the-popish-maid (set in 1688, maybe that is too late).

colt45 had three stories in a similar vein to Tales of Tanitsar (Premier only):
- https://storiesonline.net/s/44463/sea-king
- https://storiesonline.net/s/47790/shastas-tale
- https://storiesonline.net/s/51360/quest-for-knowledge
They are set in a post apocalyptic world and should be read in that order.

Gina Marie Wylie wrote a couple of possibilities:
- https://storiesonline.net/s/50382/tangent
- https://storiesonline.net/s/52820/cost-of-time
Including those two is pushing things, they should be read in that order - look at the description and codes for Tangent before you start.

Smilodon vanished almost 20 years ago so his stories are also Premier only.
- https://storiesonline.net/s/37645/anglo-saxon-chronicles
- https://storiesonline.net/s/42108/a-fall-in-antioch
- https://storiesonline.net/s/43101/a-storm-at-samos
- https://storiesonline.net/s/42640/vinland

It seems I left the best to last, Smilodon's stories are up there with Argon's Knights and Commoners for perceived realism.

Joerg Isebrand starts on February 11, A.D. 1500. I suppose it finishes some time around 1530.

William the Conq used mercenary crossbowmen in his invasion of England in 1066, and as for "knightly rules of conduct", nope. I doubt they had even been drawn up at the time (1066).

Most historians put the end of the High Middle Ages at 1492 ("discovery" of America by C. Colombo)

That is a very arbitrary and US-centric definition!

And for an England-centric definition, most historians put the end of the Middle Ages as 1485 (the accession of Henty VII to the English throne).

So, around the end of the 15th Century would be about right.

Ian

That is a very arbitrary and US-centric definition!

No, because wasn't "Columbus discovers the United States". It was the opening of the regular exchange of goods and culture between Europe and the Americas, which affected Europe pretty significantly, though maybe not so much as it affected the Americas.

There's an awful lot of stuff that was simply unknown in Europe before that, because it originated in the New World. There were no tomatoes, no potatoes, no syphilis, no tobacco... they didn't have those turkey legs people love gnawing on at RenFaires...

And that's not to mention what the sudden introduction of two new continents to be claimed did to European politics...

I've been in the SCA for decades. Our period is officially "pre-17th century", so it ends at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, 1600. I've long held, though, that it should be October 12th, 1492, just because it would put an end to a lot of very silly, "Oh, well, they could have had..."

(They'd probably just start going, "Oh, well, the Vikings could have brought it back from Vinland," though.)

If anyone is interested, they can find many of smilodon's stories on another free site, which we cannot mention here.

Seek and ye shall find.