So have I. Several. Max Adams - the First Kingdom - being the most recent. Interested in your book - tag me when you find it. I'd have thought Dark Ages history quite a niche interest. But I fin… (View Post)

Possibly. The thing about the Dark Ages is that the sources we have are very sketchy. It was certainly an awful time for the history-writing people. Evidence of how life was for the masses of peasant… (View Post)

That's a fair point, but that would also probably have been true at the time of the Luddites. (View Post)

I almost can't believe we're having this conversation, but starvation was down to a series of poor summers, and plague was down to plague. Neither were consequences of the Romans leaving an… (View Post)

Yes, me too. It wasn't the handling money aspect. It was the reset. All my life I'd been handling money most days. Then commercial activity was shut down. Only, in practice, for a few weeks… (View Post)