I am immediately reminded of muddy medievals and early moderns clothed inevitably in only grays and browns.

Yeah, as an Okie, I immediately caught that, too.

Appreciate you sharing your experience with the course. As a non-academic with an avocational interest in the subject, I've long looked at their program with curiosity - along with similar programs at Berkeley and Columbia.

I've moved on from the 14th century and the theater of the SCA's rattan stick fighting community, but this book always stuck in my head. So when I found it in such good shape in a local used bookstore, I had to pick it up for sentimentality alone.

When I first started rooting around the quasi-medieval reenactment org called the SCA twenty years ago, many of the organizations "knights" extolled this novel set in the Hundred Years' War as particularly exemplary in its treatment of chivalry.

That blackwork at the collar, though!

Oh. *Oooooh.* This looks fascinating - and the first time I've come across the term "archaeogaming."

Makes me consider the tabletop RPG I'm developing set in Late 1500s Europe... and what's the most important aspect of it: the exploration of history or the game itself?

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🙏 Thank you!

An important part of what I enjoy about game design!

Fascinating!

My nefarious plan is dropping my players into the chaos that was Antwerp in the wake of the Spanish Fury which set the city alight, sacked it thoroughly, and murdered approximately 15,000 of its 90,000 inhabitants.

Lots of interesting 'urban sandbox' style hooks for play in that sort of context.