ACOUP - Resources for World Builders

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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (ACOUP) is a blog produced by a professor of history who likes fantasy and science fiction books, movies and games. His blog reviews fantasy fiction from a historical perspective and from a straightforward functioning perspective. He often offers the perspective that fantasy relies on the suspension of disbelief, and the best way to maintain that suspension is present a world that has all the appearances of being able to function as presented.

Here is his page - Resources for World Builders. - Link.
Topics include such things as:

Premodern Economics and How Regular People Lived:​

Armies and Logistics:​

Religion: practical polytheism anyone?​

Society and Politics:
Armor and Weapons:
Ship Design:

And much more.

 

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Here is a link to Evan Schultheis long set of twitter posts on Leather vs textile armor -- very interesting indeed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1665831765691228163

Here is how it begins...

 

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Here is a great "Ask a Historian" response to the question:

Did ancient soldiers train as hard as we imagine they did and were they as hard-core as we think they are?​

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12ihmmr/comment/jftu5h2/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...ancient_soldiers_train_as_hard_as_we_imagine/