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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.
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I am sorry in advance for multiple posts. But the sickness of this era needs defining even more at this moment. The Princess Bride is not only a Shakespearean-level classic for the ages, but morality displayed in such stark contrast. Trump proved who he was.Join me later substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
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I am sorry in advance for the multiple posts and emails today. But the sickness of this era needs defining even more at this moment. The Princess Bride is not only a Shakespearean-level classic for th...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I am sorry in advance for multiple posts. But the sickness of this era needs defining even more at this moment. The Princess Bride is not only a Shakespearean-level classic for the ages, but morality displayed in such stark contrast. Trump proved who he was.Join me later substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
“Philip IV commits the state to simultaneity.
Lists finalize. Wax hardens, plans depend on morning arriving everywhere at once. Every door. Every house. Every brother. Authority expects time itself to obey. The Templars feel the pressure before it announces itself… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Lists finalize. Wax hardens, plans depend on morning arriving everywhere at once. Every door. Every house. Every brother. Authority expects time itself to obey. The Templars feel the pressure before it announces itself… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
On The Third Day...The Templar Who Escaped the Crown: Jacques de Molay and the Night Power Lost Control
12 Festive Frontiers: Christmas Counterfactuals Where History Held Its Breath At A Hinge
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December 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Philip IV commits the state to simultaneity.
Lists finalize. Wax hardens, plans depend on morning arriving everywhere at once. Every door. Every house. Every brother. Authority expects time itself to obey. The Templars feel the pressure before it announces itself… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Lists finalize. Wax hardens, plans depend on morning arriving everywhere at once. Every door. Every house. Every brother. Authority expects time itself to obey. The Templars feel the pressure before it announces itself… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“Bartolomeo Colleoni stands at the center of this constraint. His campaigns across Lombardy shaped him into the consummate condottiere, a figure who understood terrain, momentum, and morale with an instinct sharpened by decades of paid war…. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-lion-w...
The Lion Who Commanded the Rivers: Colleoni’s Great Italian Counteroffensive, 1466–1468
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“Bartolomeo Colleoni stands at the center of this constraint. His campaigns across Lombardy shaped him into the consummate condottiere, a figure who understood terrain, momentum, and morale with an instinct sharpened by decades of paid war…. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-lion-w...
“Two figures glided across Osman’s furs with the quiet assurance of men who had ended fathers, brothers, chiefs. Their hands held woven silk cords. Old Turkic craft. Silent. Final. A method chosen when steel offered too much sound and too much story…. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-sec...
On The Second Day...Osman's Dawn & The Winter The Frontier Changed: Christmas 1299 Counterfactual
12 Festive Frontiers: Christmas Counterfactuals Where History Held Its Breath At A Hinge
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December 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“Two figures glided across Osman’s furs with the quiet assurance of men who had ended fathers, brothers, chiefs. Their hands held woven silk cords. Old Turkic craft. Silent. Final. A method chosen when steel offered too much sound and too much story…. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-sec...
“The day sharpened into a moment that changed far more than the battle. The fog that could have blunted the Ottoman bowstrings is where we reroute our history, that hinge that could have changed a century—in our tale, it created the illusion of a collapsing empire… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
The Winds of Varna: How Fog, Fleet, and Fortune Recast the Eastern Mediterranean
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“The day sharpened into a moment that changed far more than the battle. The fog that could have blunted the Ottoman bowstrings is where we reroute our history, that hinge that could have changed a century—in our tale, it created the illusion of a collapsing empire… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“Christmas morning did little to soften the knives in Naples. The Pope’s chamber might have glowed with prayer but the rest of CastelNuovo became winter forges of panic. Caetani understood instantly: hesitation was contagion. If resignation was refused… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-fir...
On The First Day...The Pope Who Refused to Resign: The Hermit Who Unmade A Century
12 Festive Frontiers: Christmas Counterfactuals Where History Held Its Breath At A Hinge
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December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Christmas morning did little to soften the knives in Naples. The Pope’s chamber might have glowed with prayer but the rest of CastelNuovo became winter forges of panic. Caetani understood instantly: hesitation was contagion. If resignation was refused… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-fir...
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12 Festive Frontiers:
Christmas Counterfactuals Where History Held Its Breath At A Hinge
Across the long winter of Middle Ages and Early Modern Period throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle...
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“Under this thunder of pride and pressure stands Mircea cel Bătrân, the aged prince of Wallachia. The crusaders believe they know all. Bayezid believes he owns it. In the dark beneath the Danubian canopy, the hinge of history waits for a misplaced hoof… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-forest...
The Forest That Could Have Foiled the Sultan: When Mircea cel Bătrân Split the Sipahis & Set Europe’s Boundaries Anew
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“Under this thunder of pride and pressure stands Mircea cel Bătrân, the aged prince of Wallachia. The crusaders believe they know all. Bayezid believes he owns it. In the dark beneath the Danubian canopy, the hinge of history waits for a misplaced hoof… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-forest...
“One divergence begins in that volatile winter. A single shift. A single choice. This is all it takes for history to reroute itself.
Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
A Conspiracy That Could Have Cut a Kingdom in Two: Angevin Claims. Aragonese Fury. The Republic That Conquered Its Coast.
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“One divergence begins in that volatile winter. A single shift. A single choice. This is all it takes for history to reroute itself.
Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“Florence woke in the ash-gray dawn: sounds of bells rolling across the Arno.
They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
The Treasury of Heaven & Earth The Final Volume of “From Peter’s Purse to Caesar’s Chest”
The ReRoute of a Rivalry Even Shakespeare Would Have Dreamt Of
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November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“Florence woke in the ash-gray dawn: sounds of bells rolling across the Arno.
They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
“When her coffin was carried through the forum, crowds did not chant her name. They recited her: Law is the language of the living, not the lament of the lost. The phrase echoed through the arches, then through centuries. Chroniclers called her Livia.… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-second...
The Second Livia: If Placidia Rebuilt the Roman Mind In Byzantium Instead Of Plotting In Ravenna
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“When her coffin was carried through the forum, crowds did not chant her name. They recited her: Law is the language of the living, not the lament of the lost. The phrase echoed through the arches, then through centuries. Chroniclers called her Livia.… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-second...
“The walls bristled with hired courage. Mercenaries lined the battlements. Averardo’s men sallied out, torched siege engines, poisoned horses, whispered through camps that the gold had run out. For Hell, was rehearsing itself in the fields of Tuscany… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Part II: The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride—Florence Marries Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow
The ReRoute of a Rivalry Even Shakespeare Would Have Dreamt Of
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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
“The walls bristled with hired courage. Mercenaries lined the battlements. Averardo’s men sallied out, torched siege engines, poisoned horses, whispered through camps that the gold had run out. For Hell, was rehearsing itself in the fields of Tuscany… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
You won’t want to miss tonight’s EPIC: FROM PETER’S PURSE TO CAESAR’S CHEST
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
You won’t want to miss tonight’s EPIC: FROM PETER’S PURSE TO CAESAR’S CHEST
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride
Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
That night they divide Gaul like partners in an inheritance. Rome will keep her scribes and seals. The Franks will keep their swords. Together they form a realm neither barbarian nor imperial, but both. A monarchy founded not on divine destiny, but on the idea that… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
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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. Ins...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
That night they divide Gaul like partners in an inheritance. Rome will keep her scribes and seals. The Franks will keep their swords. Together they form a realm neither barbarian nor imperial, but both. A monarchy founded not on divine destiny, but on the idea that… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“Suppose the ice cracked differently that winter. Suppose Charles lived through the melee: carried from the field to the sound of Margaret’s orders, her letters already riding toward London. In this rerouted by history, the phoenix of Flanders rises… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-phoeni...
The Phoenix of Flanders: How Margaret of York Could Have Built the First Global Court of Gold & Grace
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“Suppose the ice cracked differently that winter. Suppose Charles lived through the melee: carried from the field to the sound of Margaret’s orders, her letters already riding toward London. In this rerouted by history, the phoenix of Flanders rises… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-phoeni...
“Between 1140- 220, the Church of the Bons Hommes and Bonas Femnas flourished quietly from Albi to Alès, from Toulouse to Lombardy. It was a parallel Christianity—organized, literate, astonishingly humane. Its records survive in chronicles… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-hereti...
The Heretic Knight: When Bertrand of Forcalquier Broke the Church
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“Between 1140- 220, the Church of the Bons Hommes and Bonas Femnas flourished quietly from Albi to Alès, from Toulouse to Lombardy. It was a parallel Christianity—organized, literate, astonishingly humane. Its records survive in chronicles… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-hereti...
“Rivalry Worthy of the Bard: Shakespeare’s Verona was only a dress rehearsal. Romeo+Juliet, that immortal quarrel between love and lineage, took its cue from real Italian vendettas—wars of blood and banner that tore through the 13th & 14th centuries, this rerouted… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
Part I: From Peter’s Purse to Caesar’s Chest: Florence Is Purged, Purchased, Then Princely
The ReRoute of a Rivalry Even Shakespeare Would Have Dreamt Of
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November 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“Rivalry Worthy of the Bard: Shakespeare’s Verona was only a dress rehearsal. Romeo+Juliet, that immortal quarrel between love and lineage, took its cue from real Italian vendettas—wars of blood and banner that tore through the 13th & 14th centuries, this rerouted… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“Before both armies—legionaries, Franks, foederati—Childeric draws a dagger and cuts off his own long hair, the sacred Merovingian divinity badge. The crowd gasps. Warriors beat their shields in horror. He lifts the golden braid skyward. Romans, stunned reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-long-h...
The Long-Haired King Who Cut The Scissors First: A Merovingian Tale Of Bloodline to Bureaucracy
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Before both armies—legionaries, Franks, foederati—Childeric draws a dagger and cuts off his own long hair, the sacred Merovingian divinity badge. The crowd gasps. Warriors beat their shields in horror. He lifts the golden braid skyward. Romans, stunned reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-long-h...
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The Guelph and Ghibelline conflict ravaged northern Italy for more than two centuries as the embers of the Renaissance began to flicker. So much so, that Shakespeare modeled his Romeo & Juliet rival f...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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“History remembers kneeling men in her presence before it remembers her name. Yet, before emperors bowed in snow, Matilda of Canossa had already built the Italy they begged upon. Daughter of the powerful House of Canossa: la Gran Contessa was just that… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-counte...
The Countess’s Gates That Held Heaven Hostage: Matilda Canossa’s Italian Century
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“History remembers kneeling men in her presence before it remembers her name. Yet, before emperors bowed in snow, Matilda of Canossa had already built the Italy they begged upon. Daughter of the powerful House of Canossa: la Gran Contessa was just that… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-counte...
“She wore mourning black trimmed in garnet thread, the color of ripe Nebbiolo grapes pressed thin. Her veil was gauze. Her expression, folio-flat. She walked through the hall as tables gleamed like a cruciform mirror—crossed arms of hospitality & trap… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-wine-t...
The Wine, The Widow, And The War Ledger: When Donna Beatrice Solaro of Asti Opened Up Heaven & Hell To Balance the Books
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“She wore mourning black trimmed in garnet thread, the color of ripe Nebbiolo grapes pressed thin. Her veil was gauze. Her expression, folio-flat. She walked through the hall as tables gleamed like a cruciform mirror—crossed arms of hospitality & trap… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-wine-t...
“Snow presses the cloister like penance. Friars whisper behind doors too thin to hide tremors of rumor: a disguised French queen has crossed the border. Her retinue carries no crest, only sealed letters marked with Florentine scent. Catherine steps from her carriage open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
The Emperor’s Widowmaker: When Charles V Rose Again and Catherine Bent France Toward Empire
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“Snow presses the cloister like penance. Friars whisper behind doors too thin to hide tremors of rumor: a disguised French queen has crossed the border. Her retinue carries no crest, only sealed letters marked with Florentine scent. Catherine steps from her carriage open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
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ALT: the wheel weaves as the wheel wills is written above a woman
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“By 1388, the Swabian League of Cities was the most ambitious experiment in collective governance Europe had seen since Rome fell. Free Imperial cities: Ulm, Augsburg, Nördlingen, Heilbronn. They had bound themselves against robber knights and predatory princes… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
The Compact of Sword and Scale: Free Imperial Cities Strike Out Independently in The Republic of The Rhine
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“By 1388, the Swabian League of Cities was the most ambitious experiment in collective governance Europe had seen since Rome fell. Free Imperial cities: Ulm, Augsburg, Nördlingen, Heilbronn. They had bound themselves against robber knights and predatory princes… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
“History, ever uncomfortable with competence, let the March of Cilicia fade like mist after prayer. By the 1140s, scribes wrote of a Latin fort in the hills once ruled by a woman of the cross. The Byzantines folded her enclave into their maps as a dot without name… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
The Margravine and the Mountain: When Ida of Austria Survived the Ambush and Forged the March of Cilicia
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“History, ever uncomfortable with competence, let the March of Cilicia fade like mist after prayer. By the 1140s, scribes wrote of a Latin fort in the hills once ruled by a woman of the cross. The Byzantines folded her enclave into their maps as a dot without name… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...