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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6122362, member: 110504&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], thanks for the valued, and very resonant contextualization regarding what you collect, and what you&#039;d rather not.</p><p>...As a mainly-medievals guy, I collect pretty eclectically through the 13th century.&nbsp; (Conspicuously including Islamic coins, especially from Andalusia and the (mostly Ayyubid) Middle East.)&nbsp; But from the 14th century, especially in western Europe, the combined milieu starts to get depressing.&nbsp; You end up with the convergence of the Black Death and the Hundred Years&#039; War.&nbsp; During even the early phases of which, the English practiced the sort of total war which was already familiar (burn, pillage, repeat), but on what was, as of the prior several centuries, an effectively unprecedented scale.&nbsp; ...That&#039;s when I have to start thinking of how the 30 Years&#039; War was a dress rehearsal for World War One ...and so forth.</p><p>...In other words, from here, I can experience a lot of the 13th century (...with prominent exceptions) from a safe emotional distance.&nbsp; Later than that, the rules start to change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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