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Offline Cubs

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #180 on: September 14, 2013, 07:26:58 PM »
I tell you, when the Zombie Apocalypse comes (and we know it will one day), I'm nicking next door's truck, making a quick visit to the B&Q and ASDA (hardware store and supermarket respectively, for those outside the UK) down the road for supplies and then it's off to Cardiff Castle. Last time I checked, zombies don't have siege equipment.

There used to be a really great old computer game (I'm talking twenty years or more ago - I wish I could remember the name of it) where you played the part of a knightly Lord, managing your territory and building a castle. Of course, you'd earn income from your resources - cattle, sheep, pigs, crops, etc.. - and then recruit more retainers, improve your castle then invade neighbouring territories.

It was kind of annoying though, because your castle was rarely tested and if it was, a fairly basic level of construction would repel just about anything. I was there building these elaborate constructions with triple stone walls and multiple towers, with a broad moat and massive square footage ... all for nowt!
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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #181 on: September 14, 2013, 07:33:27 PM »
I must say I have difficulty to understand all this Doomsday Castle thing.

When I first heard of it I believed it was a real family, building its own castle in some remote place, certainly not very historical, but - why not?

Now it seems it has something to do with National Geographic and it appears to be some advertising program? Anyway it looks... strange. A mixture between the "survival" fashion - which could appeal to an US audience - and building a castle.

I find it unbelievable. You can't do modern "survival" in a medieval castle (and this one doesn't look very historically medieval, but that's an other question)...

But. You can do something else.

I know a guy, his name is Gilles Raab, he lives in Mayenne (western France) he built a keep and bailey according to his dreams. He has worked for many years in medieval entertainment, he bought an old farm and, year after year, built a wooden palisade and then a stone keep. And he lives in it and still earns his living with medieval events in his ...home, and it is quite seriously historical (yes if you look closely you'll always find something wrong, but… it's very good).
http://www.ferteclairbois.com/video_13.php
(look at the other videos also).

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #182 on: September 15, 2013, 09:35:58 AM »
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http://www.ferteclairbois.com/video_13.php
(look at the other videos also).

Brilliant!!!! Definately worth a visit!!
« Last Edit: September 15, 2013, 09:39:02 AM by Paul »
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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #183 on: September 20, 2013, 07:42:59 AM »
« Last Edit: September 20, 2013, 10:28:20 AM by Paul »

Offline Atheling

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #184 on: September 20, 2013, 08:20:18 AM »


Excellent Paul... really had me giggling.... 

So good that it's going to be the first entry on my Facebook page in months! I know, sad isn't it....  :D

Darrell.

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #185 on: September 20, 2013, 09:43:34 AM »
Excellent!  lol

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #186 on: September 22, 2013, 09:27:18 AM »
The Experience of Civilian Populations during the Hundred Years War in France 1330-1440
http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/articles/FrenchCiviliansBennett.pdf

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #187 on: September 23, 2013, 06:31:23 AM »
The Experience of Civilian Populations during the Hundred Years War in France 1330-1440
http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/articles/FrenchCiviliansBennett.pdf

Thanks for that Paul  8)

I've printed it off to read at lunchtime, with a nice cup of coffee and three ostrich feathers stuck in my arming cap of course  :).

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #189 on: September 26, 2013, 08:02:20 PM »
Quote
a flat-packed boat

Made by IKEA? :D
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Offline Cubs

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #190 on: September 26, 2013, 08:03:57 PM »
That's why so many Viking digs have a dozen allen-keys in a little zip-lock bag (kept just in case they're useful).

Offline Atheling

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #191 on: September 27, 2013, 07:34:50 AM »
Someone should put together something similar for the Anglo Saxons.... oh, wait! We still travel to other folks countries get steeming drunk and cause a frenzy and violent mayhem!!

Who needs Ikea, just ask for an English football tram to visit your native land  lol lol lol

Please note, cricket fans are exempt from such violent clashes

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #192 on: September 27, 2013, 07:56:14 AM »
Made by IKEA? :D

Yes. 'Härja' viking longship, 599:-.

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #193 on: September 27, 2013, 07:59:06 AM »
Yes. 'Härja' viking longship, 599:-.

Out of Stock...

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #194 on: September 27, 2013, 09:02:42 AM »
Out of Stock...

Isle 87, product 13.....

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