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1233 to 1323 opens onto 2 lives, 2 place stories, and 1 named historical windows.
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1307 - Burgh by Sands
Physical failure, unfinished conquest, and will resisting its last limit.
Carried rather than riding toward the Scottish border, a king whose will outlasted his body reflects on what conquest requires.
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1323 - Venice
In Venice, as his body thins, the traveller who connected East and West sets down what he saw that no one in Europe was prepared to believe.
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Places inside this time
In 1233 to 1323, use the same years to move from chronology into cities, courts, islands, and regions that already carry deeper context.
Alive in this timeline around 1307 / story span 1307
Connected to 1 life including Edward I of England.
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Alive in this timeline around 1323 / story span 1270s-1323
Connected to 1 life including Marco Polo.
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Named windows
1 windows to step into
Medieval
700 to 1400
Kingship, faith, succession, and the durability of personal rule.
8 lives visible here
7 place stories active in the same years
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1233 CE to 1323 CE
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1307 - Burgh by Sands
Place story available
Physical failure, unfinished conquest, and will resisting its last limit.
Carried rather than riding toward the Scottish border, a king whose will outlasted his body reflects on what conquest requires.
1233 to 1323 across the atlas
1307 - Burgh by Sands
1323 - Venice
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1323 - Venice
Place story available
In Venice, as his body thins, the traveller who connected East and West sets down what he saw that no one in Europe was prepared to believe.
empire
A contrasting life shaped by empire.
The last pharaoh of Egypt watches her kingdom dissolve, and sets down what Rome will never understand about power.
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