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Re:The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games by perihelions on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:14PM (#28066393)
>EDIT: As a follow-up, I found this history of land & tax policy in Denmark going back to the middle ages to be quite fascinating and might be a useful point of contact for this sort of thing: https://bibliotek1.dk/english/history/centuries-of-experienc...

Tangentially, there's a remarkable painting of a tax collection in medieval Denmark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_Atterdag_holding_Visb...

("Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361", by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist in 1882)

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