"We translate lines into Old Norse and Old English, use pre-Conquest missals for religious scenes and reconstruct locations and events from contemporary chronicles – inasmuch as that's possible in the nineth century," he says.
Because they still do not believe a Muslim can achieve this … They do not believe that their ancestors carried the ships over land to the Golden Horn," he said, referring to Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II's conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453.
Whether you're here, or in the deep space of EveOnline, or among the low-life in Grand Theft Auto V, the economics of computer games nearly always resemble early capitalism: trade, conquest and ruthless rule-bending are the sources of wealth; actual human labour and ingenuity almost never.
The glory that he sought was that of victory rather than conquest".
But Ireland's relationship with its big neighbour was always more unequal than Scotland's, exacerbated by conquest, absentee land ownership and religion.
But what if you could choose to play any of these games without trying to gain wealth through conquest, violence or the mercantile capitalist strategy of buying cheap and selling dear?
I have an engaging memory of him on the night of Chile's conquest of third place in Santiago.
The old Guinness Book of Records was born at the fag-end of empire, and belonged to a new Elizabethan era in which exceptional exploits such as the four-minute mile and the conquest of Everest served as consolations for national decline.
Hitler's Germany marched from one conquest to the next between 1936 and 1938.
It burned to the ground, though, sometime between Julius Caesar's conquest of Egypt in 48 BC and the Muslim invasion in 640 AD.
Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, re-enacted the conquest of empire in the London Zoological Society he founded.
