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You have less holidays than a Medieval peasant (i.imgur.com)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair that was technically entertainment in a large warm building you can nod off in.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

church service becomes a lot more tolerable when you remember that the church itself is part of the structure of the organ, it's a bloody massive instrument that to this day remains extremely impressive to listen to.

The past was just so, so, so infinitely more boring that basically anything would be interesting by contrast, and a building-sized instrument combined with a highly trained choir, and presumably some food and drink along with just hanging out with people you otherwise don't really meet? hell yeah sounds great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Very true. Another weird fact is that up until ≈1700 huge monumental stone buildings weren't really engineered they were designed by rules of thumb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greec and romans already knew maths and used them for their buildings. The knowledge still carried in the middle ages. Those trebuchets weren't made at random. But yes, the knowledge was then made into rules of thumbs, as it is still nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

To some extent yes but masonry specifically was held in secrecy and monuments were indeed built on rules of thumb which are still used today as well just not as heavily.

Essentially great great great great grandmaster mason Gary Gregg Gregor did the math back in 500ad so I don't have to do it today I just have to follow the rule of thumb he left. Which would be like every 50ft in height you build you need to add 6" in wall thickness at the base, so on so forth.

https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/compassandrule/medieval-drawing/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2856152