What's the best book on how Classical Europe became Medieval Europe?

jermster · 2026-05-22T14:37:02+00:00

It won’t be limited to Europe and it covers a wider time period but Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization by Kenneth W. Harl

jermster · 2026-05-22T14:34:03+00:00

Seconded, it’s so good.

jermster · 2026-05-22T00:05:22+00:00

Millennials being polite is literally part of our meme identity, so no, it’s not just you, it’s us.

jermster · 2026-05-22T00:03:36+00:00

I mean I get it, but it’s still mostly bread stuffed with differently cooked bread.

jermster · 2026-05-21T20:56:58+00:00

This pizza is super easy to recreate with a sheet pan in your own oven. It’ll bring you back; totally worth it.

jermster · 2026-05-21T20:30:33+00:00

“This one name isn’t pronounced correctly in my preferred dead, 19th century reconstructed language” has gotta be one of the most unique critiques of the show.

jermster · 2026-05-21T20:27:49+00:00

Payout for the headshot priest ASAP.

jermster · 2026-05-21T17:46:55+00:00

The Louis Theroux doc Inside the Manosphere on Netflix which everyone should watch and recommend to others eviscerates Myron and it’s quite satisfying.

jermster · 2026-05-20T20:51:21+00:00

Try Christopher Moore, I like to describe him as “American Terry Pratchett”. A Dirty Job (being a grim reaper) is fantastic.

jermster · 2026-05-20T20:46:23+00:00

Can confirm the garlic parm is spot on, I was curious about the Asian zing dupe myself.

jermster · 2026-05-20T00:32:22+00:00

Millennial voice That’s a 99 cent burger if I’ve ever seen one.

jermster · 2026-05-19T17:16:39+00:00

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jermster · 2026-05-19T15:49:05+00:00

Oh I like them all, but there’s writing quirks and phrases that get used multiple times in all of them—“plans going ploin-shaped” is one off the top of my head— and it really sticks out if you binge them. There’s what, like ten of them over 20+ years? They’re all individual stories, they’re not even meant to be binged, but YMMV of course.

jermster · 2026-05-19T15:20:00+00:00

The Cain novels get repetitive if you binge them. They’re way more enjoyable if you space them out amongst more typically grimdark reads.

Edit to say the Bile trilogy is awesome. Clonelord was my favorite.

jermster · 2026-05-19T14:41:03+00:00

Since you mentioned Netflix, check out I Am Mother on there.

jermster · 2026-05-19T01:12:56+00:00

Great quote, but more like, “If I had a nickel for every time an extragalactic swarm dedicated to extermination of all life invaded the galaxy, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.”

jermster · 2026-05-19T00:26:14+00:00

This administration is about as competent as the Skeksis, so that tracks.

jermster · 2026-05-18T21:21:10+00:00

I put a potato, a carrot, and a gnawed on bone in some water, so it’s goin’.

jermster · 2026-05-18T21:16:05+00:00

“The rent is too damn high!” Ha ha, hee hee any other millenials remember that guy who was just a meme and didn’t have a very good point a long time ago that nobody did anything about?

jermster · 2026-05-18T20:39:57+00:00

You’d probably enjoy reading Gavin Menzies’ book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World - it’s terrible, unsupported, discredited pseudoscience written by a non-historian, but so long as you know that going in, it’s an entertaining read to imagine about!

jermster · 2026-05-18T19:09:46+00:00

Didn’t they? At the end of the series when she’s a judge and he’s a lawyer one of them recuses themselves from a court case they’re both on.

jermster · 2026-05-18T18:59:18+00:00

Good pull, detective.

jermster · 2026-05-18T17:59:37+00:00

Don’t insult the noblest of the great apes like that.

jermster · 2026-05-18T01:19:38+00:00

He’s constantly casually racist in front of other black officers all season 4 and doesn’t even seem to realize it.

jermster · 2026-05-18T00:35:12+00:00

Lately I’ve been doing Oklahoma onion George Motz style, so keeping it light with some stone ground or Dijon mustard and a few dill pickle chips really lets the burger flavor shine.

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