My latest piece, Pact and pike, is an in-depth look at the deep networks of aid and resistance built by peasants across feudal Europe. Often dismissed as mindless mobs with pitchforks they instead sparked revolutions in communal organizing and fought their oppressors with a wide array of innovative tactics.
Over a year in the making, this anarchic history winds its way through community pacts, masked secret societies, revolutionary conspiracies, skilled ambushes, peasant militia breaking whole armies and a whole hell of a lot of dead nobles.
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Secret plots! Assassinations! Peasant mounted infantry! Lots and lots of burning castles! If I get to $275/mo in subscriptions you can read all about it.
(Also I am in poverty and I'd like to be able to afford bills)
Due to the generous support of my subscribers I am unlocking this piece delving into the peasant tactics and organizing behind one of the most famous medieval revolts.
There was so much here that it couldn't all make it into Pact and pike so it deserved its own piece. Thanks so much y'all! Enjoy!
