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1282 to 1372 opens onto 3 lives, 3 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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1355 - Fez
In Fez, with his travelling finished, the most widely journeyed man of the medieval world sets down what movement taught him that stillness never could.
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Places inside this time
In 1282 to 1372, 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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London, England · 1282 CE to 1372 CE
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3 place stories are visible in this time window.
Historical events
3 prototype events
North Africa and West Asia
1354-1355 · Fez
Fez gathers decades of movement back into one courtly act of memory, selection, and historical self-making.
Ibn Battuta keeps the event intimate by turning scale, fatigue, prestige, and memory into one spoken reckoning.
Britain and Ireland
1295 · London, England
London becomes the place where royal need is forced into broader consultation, giving taxation and representation a more durable shared stage.
Edward I keeps the event human because constitutional form is driven here by a ruler whose military pressure forces him to bargain with the realm.
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1307 - Burgh by Sands
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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.
Alive in this timeline around 1355 / story span 1355
Connected to 1 life including Ibn Battuta.
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1282 to 1372 across the atlas
1307 - Burgh by Sands
1323 - Venice
1355 - Fez
Decades
Italy and Alpine Europe
1295 · Venice
Venice receives Asia back as testimony, wealth, and doubt, turning return itself into a historical event.
Marco keeps the event human because world history re-enters Europe here through one returning body and one contested memory.
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.
1355 - Fez
Place story available
In Fez, with his travelling finished, the most widely journeyed man of the medieval world sets down what movement taught him that stillness never could.