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Title: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Jubal on July 30, 2014, 10:38:09 AM

So this is basically for me to blog about and discuss my dissertation. Said dissertation is based around the siege of Thessaloniki in 1185, and the surrounding political context of Norman invasions of Greece and of the collapse of Byzantine central authority under Andronikos I.

I will ramble about details as I find them, do feel free to ask questions etc. :)

Title: Re: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Pentagathus on July 30, 2014, 10:51:58 AM

portugal your dissertation, do the worldbuilding thing again. Real history sucks, nowhere near enough dragons bro.

Title: Re: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Jubal on July 30, 2014, 11:31:23 AM

This has pirates and axe-wielding monks in. Objection overruled.

Title: Re: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Jubal on August 13, 2014, 10:34:49 PM

Found a chronicle today that had mentions of my stuff in! Downside, they guy writing it had so little idea what was going on that he didn't even know who the Emperor was at the time...

Title: Re: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Pentagathus on August 18, 2014, 03:30:57 PM

Does the chronicle mention the pirates or the monks?

Title: Re: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Jubal on August 18, 2014, 05:03:24 PM

Nah, it's mostly about all the crap that was happening over in Jerusalem, the whole war I'm writing about gets like a page.  :-\

Title: Re: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Jubal on October 11, 2014, 11:47:26 PM

So I now have 1000/15000 words done. It's a start? :s

Title: Re: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Jubal on November 03, 2014, 01:02:10 AM

5000/15000, starting to speed up maybe...

Title: Re: The fall of Thessaloniki - Jubal does Byzantine stuff!
Post by: Jubal on December 27, 2014, 04:51:26 PM

Back to the grindstone, I'm very stressed and finding it tough to concentrate, but we'll see how it goes, another 300 words have been produced so far today.