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What If The Emperor Who Actually Tried To Save The Roman Republic Had Lived? Pertinax Survives, The Republic Rises Anew

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 15h

If Ridley Scott wanted to go full fantasy with Gladiator II, he might as well have actually done a plausible restoration of the Republic right after Commodus! Luckily, we reroute the history here on what might have been! Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

A Rerouted Battle of The Three Kings (1578): When Morocco Became The Florence of Africa In A Golden Federation

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s the Gladiator II film Ridley Scott should have made about a real story of the emperor after Commodus who did attempt to restore the a quasi-republican system. We reroute it and see if he had succeeded…stay tuned Friday!

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 3d

“Ahmad al-Mansur inherited the absolute crown & built an empire of splendor: the El Badi Palace, the conquest of Songhai, the sugar fortunes of Marrakech. Imagine a single difference: a fever, a vision, a moment of revelation on that blood-soaked plain… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/a-rerouted...

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 3d

Stay tuned tonight!

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 4d

The Palace Beneath the Sun: When Hadrian and Antinous Built Love at the Edge of Empire

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 4d

The Palace Beneath the Sun: When Hadrian and Antinous Built Love at the Edge of Empire

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 4d

The Palace Beneath the Sun: When Hadrian and Antinous Built Love at the Edge of Empire

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 4d

The Palace Beneath the Sun: When Hadrian and Antinous Built Love at the Edge of Empire

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 4d

The Palace Beneath the Sun: When Hadrian and Antinous Built Love at the Edge of Empire

The Palace Beneath the Sun: When Hadrian and Antinous Built Love at the Edge of Empire

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 4d

“Something of Hadrian lingered there. Something of Antinous. What if the Red Sea’s most remote outpost, Farasan, was never a garrison at all, but a grief disguised as devotion—a palace hidden in coral where an emperor once tried to escape the world?.. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-palace...

The Regent of Revelation: Theophanu, The Tide Tying Together Two Romes

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 7d

“Into this fevered imagination walked a woman: Theophanu, Byzantine-born, Ottonian-crowned. Married into the West in 972, widowed too young, regent of an empire that doubted her, mother of a boy many believed destined to close the book of history itself reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-regent...

MAGA Misreads Machiavelli, Now Trump Marches the Military Into the Republic

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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 9d

“For those pretending Machiavelli stands at his shoulder—whispering clique cynicism into his ear, validating each abuse—let us call the esteemed Florentine secretary to the stand. His writings are clear, his intent sharper still. Demolish distortion reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-misre...

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 10d

“In real history, Crusaders took Antioch, carved principalities, and toppled Jerusalem in 1099. But here, with the pilgrimage dissolved in the mud of Nicaea, Fatimids fill the void. Jerusalem falls not to the West, but to Cairo, everything changes... reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

The Road to Cairo: How Nicaea’s Walls Could Have Made the Fatimids Masters of Jerusalem

The Winter That Never Thawed: Elizabeth Stuart’s Cold Reign from The Hague

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 11d

“At the heart of that frost stood one woman, denied her coronation yet crowned by circumstance: Elizabeth Stuart. She was no Winter Queen where she wore the Bohemian crown. No, she became something greater. What followed was Europe’s first Cold War… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-winter...

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Max Buccini @maxabuccini.bsky.social · 12d

Since today still feels like summer, I went out and decided to start rereading one of my favorite books that has inspired me to dive into historical writing myself: The Darkening Age by #CatherineNixey. I forgot how striking this dichotomy of quotes is.

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 16d

“Ladders up! Shields high!” Godfrey’s voice cut through the din like a bell. Men surged forward, wooden ladders thudding on walls. Seljuk arrows hissed down, punching through leather, rattling off iron. A knight clambered high, sword in hand: Deus vult! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 16d

“Plans crystallized before them: Bucquoy’s forces into Bohemia by harvest, Bavarian reinforcements by winter, Spanish tercios crossing from the Low Countries. Prague to be surrounded, starved, then struck with artillery until it knelt: months not years… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-window...

The Road to Nicaea (May–June 1097): Three Ways from the Same Walls

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 17d

“This was the first hinge. Before Antioch’s endurance. Before Jerusalem’s fall. Before legend hardened into history. Here, at Nicaea, the First Crusade would decide whether a pilgrimage would be war or whether it would collapse into sand soaked blood… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 17d

Another choose your own adventure! The Road To Nicaea, tonight! Vote on which way this rerouted tale should take after one twist makes the landscape a geopolitical monopoly board of 11th century magnitude. Subscribe!

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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 17d

“ ‘In the name of our ancestors!’ one shouted. Hands seized Slavata’s collar, another gripped Martinice’s belt, and with a heave that seemed to summon centuries of resentment, they hurled them into the bright air… Make sure to vote on which reroute we shohld take! open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

The Window That Wrote Another World: 1618’s Fatal Fall in Prague

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 18d

“In our real history, the men landed miraculously in a dung heap (no, really, look it up), bruised but alive—a bizarre divine comedy that Dante couldn’t have written better. But in this rerouted by history, Prague Castle’s courtyard was swept clean… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-window...

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 18d

What if the Second Defenestration of Prague (1618) what if resulted in a courtyard spattered with blood instead of dung? How would have the most pivotal hinge in the 17th century have played out? Stay tuned tonight and vote on which route you’d like us to take in part two!

ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 19d

“Called The Red Spire Legion: a brotherhood of zealots, mercenaries, deserters, bound by oaths of spectacle. The legion carried wagons of sharpened spears, each one destined to bear a body. They marched behind a banner: a black dragon rearing over a crimson spire... open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...