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

[Jay Yeates]

Consider the original site that spawned the thread .. it was a "at need"
underground military installation.  Since military service at this point was
not full-time professional, it likely would not have held a full-time
garrison.  Being underground space was at premium, so all things considered
shorter beds make perfect sense.  In a combat situation, you rarely kit-off
and take your sleep as you can, where you can.  So such a "racking
situation" likely has nothing to do with height.


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[mailto:ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Alexandria Doyle
Sent: 2007 - July 18 - Wednesday 00:49
To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Short or tall? was Sleeping sitting up vs lying
down

Could also be what they were use to building, or what lumber/materials
they had to hand.
alex

On 7/17/07, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra


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