France managed to ride out the Burning Thirties more or less unscathed. They had better things to do, like catching their breath. The House of Burgundy just finished toppling the House of Guise, driven Spain out of the Côte d'Or (with a bit of help), and hounded the Most Christian King [who?] into Roman exile. There was work to do: standardizing measures, rebuilding polders, renegotiating treaties, restoring normalcy in France.
In 1830, it had a chance to come undone - and didn't.
Showing posts with label Sodalitas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sodalitas. Show all posts
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
The Mexican Liturgical War
Timeframe: 1739-1741; reprisals continue into the 1740s
Belligerents:
By 1738, dystopian Catholic France was pretty clearly losing the war for France-Outremer. The Montagnards were up in arms, the Cubans had finally come around and started cooperating, and Umayyad Seville had far more manpower in the New World than France did. The solution? Find a way to strike at the seat of the Bilad al-Aqsa itself.
Thus was born a doomed peasant revolt with far-reaching consequences.
Belligerents:
- Rebels in the Moorish New World, supported by France and Sodalites
- Umayyad Caliphate of Seville
By 1738, dystopian Catholic France was pretty clearly losing the war for France-Outremer. The Montagnards were up in arms, the Cubans had finally come around and started cooperating, and Umayyad Seville had far more manpower in the New World than France did. The solution? Find a way to strike at the seat of the Bilad al-Aqsa itself.
Thus was born a doomed peasant revolt with far-reaching consequences.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The Sodality
IRL, the Reformation gave rise to a new force within Catholicism: the Society of Jesus. A Spanish thing originally, and it really couldn't have formed the way it did by anybody but a Spanish guy (well, Basque, but I'm gonna split the difference and assume no nationalists are gonna hit this blog any time soon.) Or, at least, a guy growing up in that particular Spain. Which, after what happened to Spain way back there at the start, doesn't exist.
It also doesn't help that all two responses to medieval Catholicism are, to say the least, more than a little different from the ones we're used to thinking of. That's what happens when you steampunk social science. Even if the Jesuits existed, the context in which they existed would be quite different; in particular, it's one where the Gonzalans (and thus potentially the Inquisition itself) has already been seriously compromised by the Reformation.*
No, Andalusada needs something different. Something that isn't relying on people well past their allotted century of grace. And that something is *whispers* The Sodality.
It also doesn't help that all two responses to medieval Catholicism are, to say the least, more than a little different from the ones we're used to thinking of. That's what happens when you steampunk social science. Even if the Jesuits existed, the context in which they existed would be quite different; in particular, it's one where the Gonzalans (and thus potentially the Inquisition itself) has already been seriously compromised by the Reformation.*
No, Andalusada needs something different. Something that isn't relying on people well past their allotted century of grace. And that something is *whispers* The Sodality.
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