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. open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorianshttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3misyr3bqls2j“At the center of the intellectual storm stood the most famous scholar in Europe: Desiderius Erasmus. His books traveled farther than armies. His Latin flowed through universities, monasteries, and courts. Printers from Basel to Venice competed to… https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-scholar-and-the-storm-when-charles06 Apr 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3misyr3bqls2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mh3w2kjhts2cThe Scholar and the Storm: When Charles V Made Erasmus Councillor and the Reformation Took a Different Tact Stay tuned and subscribe for Monday’s release! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe15 Mar 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh3w2kjhts2chttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mgpcqb3l3s2mFrench Affair: The Queen’s Secret—Margaret of Anjou, Valois Agent in the English Crown What if Margaret of Anjou was truly a spy in the House of Lancaster? 🤔 https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/french-affair-the-queens-secretmargaret10 Mar 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpcqb3l3s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mghp73rr3k2mFrench Affair: The Queen’s Secret—Margaret of Anjou, Valois Agent in the English Crown What if the accusation were true? Margaret of Anjou was already accused by Yorkist propaganda of being a French puppet…Stay tuned and subscribe for Monday’s release! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe07 Mar 2026 11:15 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mghp73rr3k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mgfnfcwm4s2qThe Emperor's Gambit: Richard The Lionheart Stays In An Iron Cage and Europe Is Lit Aflame Richard I of England is alive, caged, furious. Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor believes he holds a lever that can bend England. The chess board of Europe waits. https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-emperors-gambit-richard-the-lionheart06 Mar 2026 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfnfcwm4s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mf5pwxayec2dCounterfactuals always scribble the rewriting of Richard The Lionheart as: what if we eluded captivity or escaped early—some if he stayed in the Levant? But, we are taking a different view: what if he was never released? 🤔 Emperors, Pontiffs, and, of course, Eleanor—oh my! Stayed tuned tomorrow.18 Feb 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5pwxayec2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mf3fp67b3k2f“Margaret’s envoys increased pressure. Papists invoked Christian unity. Rome’s memory of the 1527 sack remained raw. Genoese captains quietly calculated profit margins: protected convoy versus independent risk. Spanish tercios in Naples stood as silent reminder... https://open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory/p/the-real-spanish-princess-margaret?r=nfojx&utm_medium=ios17 Feb 2026 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3fp67b3k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mej6ty4rok2p“Catherine commands time. Rather than a righteous struggle. She frames. Speaks of trusteeship rather than conquest. Legalism. Cities listen. Princes calculate. The Maid advances toward danger. The war prepares to choose between bloodline and belief... https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-queen-and-the-maid-catherine10 Feb 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mej6ty4rok2phttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3meelsis5zs27“Something decisive has occurred. Italy has demonstrated a talent Empire does not possess: the ability to make conquest expensive without making it glorious. To make it foolish, not imminent. Make it sniveling not strong. The idea Italy be crossed... https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-last-italian-when-an-italic-king08 Feb 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3meelsis5zs27https://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3medvnayd7226You most likely don’t know his name but he was the final Italic king of Italy. Everyone is obsessed with “The Last Roman.” How about if The Last Italian stopped The Holy Roman Empire’s march to Rome to inherit Italy in 1014? Oh, worlds are turned at such thoughts… https://substack.com/@zeitgeistmediaartisans/note/c-211629097?r=nfojx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action08 Feb 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3medvnayd7226https://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3medqws7db226“For Charles the Bald, the bargain was rational. Paris mattered too much to lose outright and too little to justify ruinous war every time a dragon prow cut the horizon. Paying to make the problem leave preserved something more valuable than coin: the appearance of rule. https://substack.com/@zeitgeistmediaartisans/note/c-211612488?r=nfojx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action08 Feb 2026 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3medqws7db226https://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3me7mguwupc2x“But the Vikings were changing. Raids had taught them the map. Ransoms had taught them the math. Movement had taught them fatigue. What compounded power was routine: silver that arrived every season without rowing. In 865, a Viking host took Paris… https://open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory/p/the-silver-that-failed-the-viking?r=nfojx&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay06 Feb 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7mguwupc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mdzrzrl4ds2gDid you know the Vikings occupied the Seine and Paris itself in 865? Charles The Bald ended up buying them off to depart. But what if his silver failed? The Vikings rebuffed him. And there was a Viking Paris? Stay tuned for our rerouted of how it could have happened…04 Feb 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzrzrl4ds2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mdursxj2dk2t“Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, carrying two reputations that rarely coexist: the quiet architect of French ascendancy and the most distrusted man in Italy. Paris knew him as keeping a fragile regency upright. Rome knew him as a problem waiting to be solved https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-red-tiara-when-mazarin-abandoned02 Feb 2026 11:51 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdursxj2dk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mdsjxjdoos2lDo you know Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino of my native Abruzzo in Italia? How about I francophone it: Cardinal Jules Mazarin. The architect of French foreign and domestic policy after Richelieu. What if he leveraged his wily talents to favor his native land over the ungrateful Bourbons? Stay tuned!01 Feb 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdsjxjdoos2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mddci763jc2x“Here’s where we see history hinge that reroutes history forever. Sibylla listens.The utter pragmatist, she knew Guy would not effect any sort of rebalancing of the scales. She chooses preservation over spiritual zealotry—or consternating incompetence https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-templars-reckoning-in-jerusalem26 Jan 2026 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mddci763jc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mcrkyhuhtk2cSo sorry for the delay! I moved to Prague to escape the U.S. regime, I shall be back to posting very regularly, again! https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-price-of-italy-silk-arsenic-and19 Jan 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrkyhuhtk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mcaqdom5lc22Lucrezia House of Borgia and and Isabella House of Este nearly plunged Italy in another half a century of strife…over silk. What if they had? Stay tuned for: The Price of Italy: Silk, Arsenic, and Statecraft as Assessed by Two Principesse—Borgia and Este in Rivalry. https://open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory/p/why-counterfactuals-matter-when-the?r=nfojx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish12 Jan 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcaqdom5lc22https://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mc3ycux4f22t“Mud swallowed speed. Hooves churned. The riverbanks closed. Drums faltered. From reeds and willow, Bulgar infantry surged forward with hooked spears. They dragged riders down. They stabbed through mail at the armpit and groin. They cut reins and… https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/when-the-bulgars-blocked-a-khans10 Jan 2026 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc3ycux4f22thttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbyq7acdts2zThe Volga Bulgaria (1223–1224) was a forgotten Mongol defeat that occurred in real history. But what if elements coalesced to block entirely a Horde invasion of Europe? Well, it nearly happened…stay tuned in ReRouted By History. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe09 Jan 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbyq7acdts2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbupk2umsk2k“The hinge of our rerouted arrives in 1096. Robert refuses Crusade. Publicly, he calls Normandy to account rather than pilgrimage. A levy replaces vows. Grain replaces glory. Coin replaces distance. The reaction? Knights curse. Rome fumes. Rufus rages… https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-king-is-dead-long-livethe-duke08 Jan 2026 00:20 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbupk2umsk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbr3gt6dtc2aWilliam The Conqueror left his 1087 inheritance in the most contested way possible: splitting it amongst his three sons. Did he think he was Charlemagne? Resulting in the decades long Wars of the Brothers. But what if the board had titled every so slightly?… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe06 Jan 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbr3gt6dtc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbn5h7e4cs2s“Adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron and rerouted for the present, this essay examines how institutions, incentives, and repetition collaborate to elevate a practiced liar into a stabilizing symbol of public faith. Day I, Tale 1. Familiar? 🤔 https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-false-saint-who-lied-so-well05 Jan 2026 00:08 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbn5h7e4cs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbjjjhlrk22w“The pattern is unmistakable now. Seas had sunk a ship. Sex had broken bridges. Steel has ended a faction. Silence has been replaced by consequence. Those who remain around Warwick do so out of habit or fear vs. conviction. The world has withdrawn... https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-kingmaker-cut-loose-how-christmas03 Jan 2026 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbjjjhlrk22whttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbesb6oflk2kThe Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, cut loose on Christmas Eve, 1470? You will not want to miss today’s bonus edition of Festive Frontiers on how the Wars of the Roses could have been rerouted with one single act. Become a paid subscriber today! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe01 Jan 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbesb6oflk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbawyyw4w22p“The warnings reached inland ahead of the wreck’s story, carried by an interpreter whose Japanese was trusted because it never sounded foreign…João Rodrigues. Christmas passed without bells. A hearth burned in Edo. Questions arrived clean + sequential… https://reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-twelfth-dayshoguns-cut-a-christmas31 Dec 2025 03:40 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbawyyw4w22phttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mb7yqywnos2mI don’t claim to know the history of Asia-Pacific well. However, I do know accounts of it from interactions in Europe. This is to balance the 12 Festive Frontiers. On the 11th Day, coming up! Make sure to subscribe for its drop: reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe https://substack.com/@zeitgeistmediaartisans/note/c-193262552?r=nfojx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action30 Dec 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:xyoghoitpdblgrloelgxtkma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb7yqywnos2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social/post/3mb7o4zmjrc2dWant your New Years predictions given the Medici lens? Check out how, below! 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