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Some questions about medieval navies and boats: Were the Vikings the only people who had longships? If so, what type of boats did the Anglo-Saxons use to get to Britannia? What type of boats did Irish and Scottish people use in early medieval times? What type of boats did the Franks, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths use?
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Feb 27, 2013 07:51
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Here's a weird question: for how long have people been interested in medieval history? Were there medieval historians back in the 1500s or 1600s? When did people start reconstructing Old English or Old French?
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Mar 21, 2013 20:39
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Oh, I just thought of something: when did taverns and inns start becoming a thing? Like with fancy names and everything? Can you give us a run-down on what drinking establishments were like throughout the Middle Ages and how they changed over the centuries?
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Mar 25, 2013 06:29
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Smoking Crow posted:What did the Vikings do when they weren't out pillaging? Were they normal farmers who just happened to be the scariest raiding force in Medieval Europe? I'm no expert, but I think most vikings were farmers or artisans during the "off-season". Vikings only raided a certain time of the year, and the rest of the year they were preoccupied with whatever occupation they had. Knights were lesser nobility, and either lived in the households of their feudal lords or held land themselves. There was a difference between "household" knights, who lived in the houses of their lords and probably slept in the barracks, and "landed" knights, who were given land by their lords and lived on it. The knight was expected to use the land to support himself, such as supplying him with horses and weapons and armour, to take the load off of his liege lord. But he still swore oaths of fealty towards his lord, since his lord was the one who granted him the land and he's just using it. This could all be wrong, though.
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Jun 27, 2013 23:55
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Regarding the Ethiopian Christians, how would medieval Europeans have reacted to them if they encountered them? How racist would they have been, if at all?
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Sep 4, 2013 08:19
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How do we know how old certain stories and stuff are? Many times I'll see someone say that, while the earliest known written copy of a story or poem may be from some specific century, the actual story itself is actually older. But how do they know, if all they have is that copy?
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Jul 17, 2014 05:19
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Did people really believe in dragons, fairies, unicorns, and all that stuff? Was it just commoners or did even nobility think this? How did the concept of elves/fairies evolve over the centuries?
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Sep 20, 2014 21:09
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