The main consensus is that the best strategy in the beginning would be to seek refuge in a monastery. This would allow you to learn the dialect and the local customs, and not starve in the first days looking for jobs none of which you are even halfway proficient in, while barely being able to communicate. People with strange accents and strange clothing would not be out of place in a monastery, especially if they claimed they are some pilgrims who became lost (or were just robbed). Such a learning period is very important, because the language was different enough that you would taken to be a stranger, and despite being able to read and write, you would have large difficulties with the calligraphy of that time. Just google for a 13th century manuscript, and see how fluently you can read it, and how easily you could write one. (Hint: bordering on impossible if you don’t spend a lot of time learning it)
If you want to change the world or at least introduce some modern technology, you will need the support of powerful people. It would not be easy to just waltz into the throne room of a lord and claim you could lead his country better than him. However, in the monastery you could learn a lot about the society you just landed in while being in relative safety, and with time you could earn the trust of important people, and carefully build up your reputation as a respected scholar.
Don’t forget, that in those times the biggest scientific curiosity was among the clergy, and most scientific discoveries of the era were made either by the clergy or sponsored by them
Otherwise you might just end up shoveling dirt on a pig farm, and too concerned about your day-to-day survival to be able to do anything important. If you don’t own any land, you are a nobody, unless you can somehow become useful as a scholar. Or save the life of someone important in a battle, but you would need extreme luck for that.
There is an excellent discussion about it on worldbuilding.stackexchange.com
The main consensus is that the best strategy in the beginning would be to seek refuge in a monastery. This would allow you to learn the dialect and the local customs, and not starve in the first days looking for jobs none of which you are even halfway proficient in, while barely being able to communicate. People with strange accents and strange clothing would not be out of place in a monastery, especially if they claimed they are some pilgrims who became lost (or were just robbed). Such a learning period is very important, because the language was different enough that you would taken to be a stranger, and despite being able to read and write, you would have large difficulties with the calligraphy of that time. Just google for a 13th century manuscript, and see how fluently you can read it, and how easily you could write one. (Hint: bordering on impossible if you don’t spend a lot of time learning it)
If you want to change the world or at least introduce some modern technology, you will need the support of powerful people. It would not be easy to just waltz into the throne room of a lord and claim you could lead his country better than him. However, in the monastery you could learn a lot about the society you just landed in while being in relative safety, and with time you could earn the trust of important people, and carefully build up your reputation as a respected scholar.
Don’t forget, that in those times the biggest scientific curiosity was among the clergy, and most scientific discoveries of the era were made either by the clergy or sponsored by them
Otherwise you might just end up shoveling dirt on a pig farm, and too concerned about your day-to-day survival to be able to do anything important. If you don’t own any land, you are a nobody, unless you can somehow become useful as a scholar. Or save the life of someone important in a battle, but you would need extreme luck for that.