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Building a Monastery the Medieval Way
Der Spiegel Online ^
| 3/21/12
| Angelika Franz
Posted on 03/29/2012 7:06:27 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: zot; Interesting Times; Alamo-Girl
A unique version of “give me that old time religion.”
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posted on
03/29/2012 7:13:20 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: marshmallow
Read about this on thehistoryblog.com. Sounds and looks awesome. On his show "Only in America," Larry the Cable Guy visited the medieval fortress being built in the Ozarks. It's also being built by volunteers, using the techniques available during the medieval period. Hope I live long enough to see it finished:
Medieval Fortress
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posted on
03/29/2012 7:21:01 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: marshmallow
I’m reminded of Follett’s Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. If you were drawn to this thread for love of history or architecture, then you would do well to read those two novels. Follett did a considerable amount of research into building techniques, monastic culture, politics, etc. A fun read.
To: marshmallow; SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/29/2012 7:45:47 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: marshmallow
It’s nice that some people have lots of time to waste on nonsense like that. Practicing for after the Muslim takeover, maybe?
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:44:06 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: marshmallow
I really enjoyed this article until I read that the funding was governmental, rather than private, as usual.
Some people really enjoy spending other people’s money. Wonder if the ones funding this will ever see a penny of the “profits”.
Doubt it.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:50:09 AM PDT
by
wizr
(Keep the Faith!)
To: JimRed
Its nice that some people have lots of time to waste on nonsense like that. Buzz Killington.
To: GreyFriar
A unique version of give me that old time religion. Yes, and surely a labor of love.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:52:22 AM PDT
by
zot
To: Hemingway's Ghost
To: brewer1516
Read them both after a trip to Bayeux ( in the Normandy region of France ). I visited the Cathedral that’s famous for its tapestry, and that Cathedral was over 1,000 years old. Could have easily spent the whole day exploring, it was THAT large and interesting. It amazes me what people were able to achieve without the benefit of modern technology!
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posted on
03/29/2012 12:55:05 PM PDT
by
SoKatt
("Change" is not a strategy!)
To: marshmallow
Working conditions will be strictly 9th-century, without machines, rain jackets or even coffee. I'd be more impressed if they had no modern medicine and they had the wild animals and the odd Viking to avoid..
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posted on
03/29/2012 1:37:53 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Romney just makes me tired all over.)
To: GeronL; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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posted on
03/29/2012 3:48:00 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: marshmallow
Felted loden coats are mideival? I used to wear one in college. Now I’m really feeling old.
To: marshmallow
WHOA! I would love to be part of that!
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posted on
03/29/2012 4:42:43 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(If you think health care is expensive now, wait til it's free.)
To: SunkenCiv
We might all need to get back to the old ways one day... after the collapse of civilization... okay, when I said “all” I meant the very very few survivors
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posted on
03/29/2012 5:52:26 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: GeronL
:’) The Middle Ages were civilized, just different.
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posted on
03/29/2012 9:08:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: marshmallow
I predict that without monks, without the Faith, this project doesn't get finished, and even if it does, it's just an empty shell.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:14:42 AM PDT
by
Campion
("Social justice" begins in the womb)
To: brewer1516
Follet’s “Pillars of the earth” was one of the best books I ever read.
Are his other books equally as good?
I could not put it down
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posted on
03/30/2012 8:01:22 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
To: JimRed
"Its nice that some people have lots of time to waste on nonsense like that. Practicing for after the Muslim takeover, maybe?" The precise reason the muslims are poised to take over Europe in the first place is that too many Europeans have readily and willingly abandoned the foundations of their civilization that this man is trying to reinforce.
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posted on
03/30/2012 8:07:14 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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