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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 2:11 pm 
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Just read this and found it fascinating:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-deo1.htm

I'll be saving that in my mediaeval tidbits folder. I love this kind of thing; I think it kind of permits us to penetrate the centuries and slowly develop a grasp of the everyday life of those times. Does anybody else here collect these kinds of morsels about the middle ages?

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WodenKrait wrote:
Just read this and found it fascinating:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-deo1.htm

I'll be saving that in my mediaeval tidbits folder. I love this kind of thing; I think it kind of permits us to penetrate the centuries and slowly develop a grasp of the everyday life of those times. Does anybody else here collect these kinds of morsels about the middle ages?


Oh yes. I collect a lot of stuff like this and use it in my games when I get the opportunity.

Last year, I read a wonderful book called A Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England that I thoroughly recommend to anybody who, like me, likes to treat Albion as an alternate world England.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Travellers ... 1845950992

While I'm at it, I'd also recommend Liza Picard's Elizabeth's London and Restoration London - though they are of later periods than is strictly accurate for a medieval society, they had a big influence on the work I did developing Ongus for my campaign, and in many ways, I think they have the advantage in role playing terms of bridging a gap for modern players - the ideas you get from those books are 'medieval' enough to work in a Dragon Warriors game, but also 'modern' enough to be accessible for modern players. The recent British TV series The Great Fire was one I specifically recommended to my players before beginning my Ongus campaign for the same reason - though it is later (1666), it was still good in some ways for flavour of what the city might be like.

http://www.amazon.com/Elizabeths-London ... 0312325665

and

http://www.amazon.com/Restoration-Londo ... 00H6EOM52/

I also make a lot of use of the Quennel's A History of Everyday Things in England: 1066 - 1499 ever since I first saw one of the volumes recommended in the back of the 1980s Maelstrom RPG - though out of print, it's not that hard to find that one at cheap prices second hand.

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 Post subject: Re: Deodand
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I'll second Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and proffer Town and Fief (two titles) as my own recommendations:

http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/fief.htm

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 Post subject: Re: Deodand
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Many good suggestions I will try to track down!

I echo the praise for Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. I saw a copy of Mortimer's followup, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England for a very low price in the post office opposite my work last week, but today when I went there to buy it (I didn't have any cash until today) it was already sold. Curses. Does anybody know if that is worth getting at full price?

Other great books if you can get them are The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf, A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martin Whittock, the old but gold Life in a Medieval XXX (Village, City, Castle) books by Frances and Joseph Gies, The histories of Venice and of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich, and David Nicolle's two Medieval Warfare Sourcebooks.

Cheers,

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