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.
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“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...
Stay tuned Sunday for a ReRoute of real life history that would have swooned over! substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
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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
Stay tuned Sunday for a ReRoute of real life history that would have swooned over! substack.com/@zeitgeistme...
“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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October 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@awscloud.bsky.social goes down an WOT fans…
“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...
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...
What If The Emperor Who Actually Tried To Save The Roman Republic Had Lived? Pertinax Survives, The Republic Rises Anew
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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...
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!
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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!
“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...
A Rerouted Battle of The Three Kings (1578): When Morocco Became The Florence of Africa In A Golden Federation
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“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...
Stay tuned tonight!
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Stay tuned tonight!
“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 Palace Beneath the Sun: When Hadrian and Antinous Built Love at the Edge of Empire
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“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...
“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...
The Regent of Revelation: Theophanu, The Tide Tying Together Two Romes
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“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...
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“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...
MAGA Misreads Machiavelli, Now Trump Marches the Military Into the Republic
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October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“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...
“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
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“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...
“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...
The Winter That Never Thawed: Elizabeth Stuart’s Cold Reign from The Hague
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
“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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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.
September 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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.
“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...
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“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...