[Ansteorra] Short or tall? was Sleeping sitting up vs lying down

[Elaine Starkey]

maybe so the nuns could hit the Vikings over the head with ye ole 
stewpots....<G>
ryah
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Short or tall? was Sleeping sitting up vs lying 
down


>
> On Jul 17, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace wrote:
>
>> Salut cozyns,
>>
>> The doorways were made short so that you had to stoop to enter. It's a
>> defensive design element. Invaders would find it hard to rush to
>> the attack
>> while bending over to get through the door.
>
> This was one of my thoughts on this, and it makes sense for castles.
> But would a cloisters be built with such defensive design elements?
>
> Stefan
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> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas