much would depend on where you landed.
mostly, europe in the early 11th century would probably have been a dismal backwater. think song of roland. yuck.
there is this society of creative anachronism thing, which enables folk to imagine that because every bourgeois is so special that fate would decree they projected backward in time as an aristocrat-type and so would be able to mobilize their serfs for sessions of whacking and dismembering and maybe even, if the timing was right, a vast exercise in collective futility like a crusade.
but this is a dismal period. pre 11th century renaissance--pre-aquinas, pre-ockham.
better to land in what is now iraq. way way better.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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