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In your time and place of expertise, how did civilian and military fashion influence or dictate each other?
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Why is "head on a platter" the common decapitation idiom, despite the fact that putting someone's head on a pike was (I assume) the most common form of actually displaying a severed head?
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Why, during the transition from medieval to modern times, did heavily armored and mounted soldiers become men-at-arms rather than knights?
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I am working on a worldbuilding hobby without Christianity. Do I need a new word for "crossbow", or did the term originate and perpetuate outside the Christian context of crosses?
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How and why did England and the United States produce similar caricatures of the Irish and African Americans—laziness, intoxication, and "overpopulation"? How and why did these empires exploit these minorities through plantation systems?
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The history of knights is littered with defeat at the hands of Hussites, Mongols, Ottomans, immediate or ultimate military failure in almost every Crusading effort... in what battles or campaigns were knights actually successful?
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