I am not convinced that Philip (father or son) is necessarily willing to compromise over anything important to him, regardless of what Habsburgs did or did not do in general and in other times and places.
Is confrontation inevitable in all possible worlds? No, but if the Irish are going to just...
It would make sense from someone acting rationally on what's important and what can be put on the back burner, but Philip (as in his father) and Mary do not strike me as that pragmatic or likely to have their son be.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I'd definitely wager on Philip II seeing...
"How interested is Philip II in asserting control of Ireland, and what does that involve?" feels like the answer to the question of what next. Hostility is not some inherent inevitable thing, but it's pretty predictable that Philip isn't going to accept traditional Irish law instead of English...
I don't think that's a particularly specific context, honestly, as far as "late medieval". Seeing a relatively stagnant Venice specifically is a lot easier than seeing that freeze the entire continent.
To be clear: The problem I have as far as personally having a more constructive answer to...
It's not hard to imagine a Europe screw, depending on when the POD is and what one means by "screw", it might even be easy for this poster. "Europe stagnates at the late medieval point for centuries" is a particularly hard to imagine kind of screw, I will admit that.
If we're talking the plague as a plague I think it's a lot closer to fated to happen "at some point" - the 1370s picked only as an example "some point" different than OTL by decades - than not without some significant changes on an evolutionary level as far as diseases and human resistance to...
Well, I'm looking more back as in what stops Norway or Denmark from this as far as "eastern" (it may not be the best word) here.
A Vinland colony in general is sounding to me like the sort of thing that could prosper if it developed far enough, but not like something that offers many incentives...
If the western Norse are in a poor situation for setting up a Vinland colony, does this make the eastern Norse too unaware of it or limited in some other way?
I don't think erasing any similarly massive plague is possible without basically ASB evolutionary changes, nor that populations dropping by (math artificially precise to make a point) 40% instead of 50% leads to stasis as far as feudalism and whatever that means - as in, England is not France is...
Even if you erase a specific plague from history, I'm not sure that "any similar massive epidemic" is possible without evolutionary PODs are ASB level changes over the course of "indefinitely".
It's not as hard to see it happening say a generation later as "doesn't happen at all".
From curiosity: I don't suppose if you have anything you'd recommend reading on this? Greenland's collapse in general, really, but this detail is fascinating as far as suggesting just how far from able to just make new ones they were.
To be part of this scenario:
If the British are interested as in actively taking places in the 1820s, that's something else (from what I was referring to), if an interesting something.
@EnglishCanuck is probably the one to ask more than me, but from what I understand, the Royal Navy's Pacific forces OTL were larger than US's by a fair margin - nevermind anything that might be the case in a timeline where taking California is a high priority.
I'm not sure. The problem of...
Danke.
I know it was a major source of France's domestic supplies, but France seems to have been (compared to 1913) in a very bad way throughout the war there from what I understand.
Definitely one of those things that no one would want to find out in real life (as opposed to speculation in...