[Tea Party Terrorist]

Read (or listen) to Wm Manchester’s The World Only Lit by Fire if you want to be shocked about the Middle Ages and how things were for people

[rlmorel]

Yes. I read that, another good book is “The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium”

I enjoyed the observation that one of the things that would be jarring to a 21st Century person would be the lack of noise pollution.

That is one of those things that, the more you dwell on it, the more you realize how pervasive the presence of sound is today, sound that isn’t the wind blowing through the trees or even an occasional water wheel.

[fso301]

Read (or listen) to Wm Manchester’s The World Only Lit by Fire if you want to be shocked about the Middle Ages and how things were for people

Or just travel to a third world country today.

[muir_redwoods]

That’s one of my favorite books ever. I have bought and given away at least a dozen copies to friends. It’s an amazing insight into the times.