I've been ruminating over Dark Age cultures in Europe and how they can be so different one from another. One way to handle this event would be to assign a date and location to the event. Another would be to let it exist outside a particular time and location in order to see what what the resulting cultural pointillism will reveal. Plenty of other possibilities exist.
I can think of plenty of possibilities I would enjoy, but since I have no actual skin in this particular game I don't want to get in the way of other people's ideas.
But right now I do think of it in my own head as "Carolingia Does Carolingia."
Yes indeed, Carolingia does Carolingia. I'll be thinking that too :).
ReplyDeleteI know the time is not at all culturally monolithic, after all, it's a geopolitical centrifuge. As much as I like a precise anchor for my projects, I think I'd like to see it evolve however the enthusiasms of the folks involved push it.