The history that I studied most was Chinese history – that and the late Roman Republic (a high school Latin class taught me more of that than any history course). As you say, actually going back in time would be perilous and probably unpleasant, but in my imagination I suppose I'd like to visit Tang Dynasty China (well before the ruinous An Lu-shan Rebellion). I could visit the Song Dynasty, too, but that was when they invented bound feet for women; even as a male, I wouldn't want to see or experience that.
Byzantine? Have you read Guy Gavriel Kay's novel "Sailing to Sarantium"?
The history that I studied most was Chinese history – that and the late Roman Republic (a high school Latin class taught me more of that than any history course). As you say, actually going back in time would be perilous and probably unpleasant, but in my imagination I suppose I'd like to visit Tang Dynasty China (well before the ruinous An Lu-shan Rebellion). I could visit the Song Dynasty, too, but that was when they invented bound feet for women; even as a male, I wouldn't want to see or experience that.
Byzantine? Have you read Guy Gavriel Kay's novel "Sailing to Sarantium"?