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Re: Good for you, Rod! » Dinah

Posted by sigismund on February 22, 2010, at 22:17:12

In reply to Good for you, Rod! » 64Bowtie, posted by Dinah on February 22, 2010, at 10:09:25

Well, yeah, Dinah, but medieval Europe is scraping the bottom of the barrel, don't you think?

What you need is a relatively peaceful time in a hunter gatherer society before colonialism.

>We go out of our way to help the less fortunate in ways that only monastics used to do. Groups of people, young and old, came from all over to camp out in churches in New Orleans and help rebuild houses. Can you see that happening in medieval times? Neighbors certainly. But strangers?

I don't know about this either. Not that I know anything of course, but I did read that the current cathedral at Chartres is the 5th, the first 4 having burned down. Maybe the peasants were all pressed into service, but I got the impression it was voluntary.

 

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