[Ravensfort] THE MEDIEVAL TWENTIETH CENTURY

[Kief av Kiersted]

Heilsa Mr. Hoffpauir...

To a certain extent that is true... However, the "cut-off date" precludes 
us, as SCA members, from "peering into the future". I would suggest that the 
steel plow and the concept of the "sodbuster plow" were not developed until 
the middle of the 1800's as the US expanded on to Great Plains... Not Middle 
Ages or Renaissance at all...but a result of the Industrial Revolution and 
expansion of technology....

No disrespect to your Grandfather...mine was using a hand pushed plow to 
garden with until just before his death in the 1960's...



Wæs Þu Hæl in TroÞ and FriÞ...!
Kief
"Better the Hammer than the nail..."


============

>From: "David R. Hoffpauir" <env_drh at shsu.edu>
>To: "The Barony of Ravensfort" <ravensfort at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Ravensfort] THE MEDIEVAL TWENTIETH CENTURY Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 
>16:18:59 -0500
>
>http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1048.htm
>
>In the SCA we tend to chop off everything "medieval" or "Renaissance" at 
>1600 AD.  It's the accepted "drop dead date" for our activities.  However, 
>technologies don't change at the whim of a date and those that had 
>accumulated "in period" did continue in daily application right on up to 
>the 20th century.  Waterwheels, clocks, carpentry methods, weaving, 
>farming, and, well, essentially the whole gambit of medieval "know how" 
>stayed intact (in the US) up until just about a 75-100 years ago.  In fact, 
>I remember my grandpa pushing a mule and plow as recent as the 1970's and 
>that's about as medieval a technology as you can get.
>
>At any rate, today's script is sort of a slant on medieval technology that 
>you may not have considered.
>
>take a listen,
>dsd
>_______________________________________________
>Ravensfort mailing list
>Ravensfort at ansteorra.org
>http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/ravensfort