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Short Answers to Simple Questions | July 12, 2023 (self.AskHistorians)
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neodoggy 1 points 13h ago
In the medieval period would an executioner (one sanctioned by the secular authorities) have been seen as committing a murder (or other sinful killing) in the eyes of the Catholic Church, or would a lawful execution not be seen as a sin? Would he have needed confession and absolution for performing an execution?
KimberStormer 4 points 15h ago
Is there a term for works like Huizinga's *Waning/Autumn of the Middle Ages*, that sort of describe a historical culture, instead of telling a historical narrative? I also have a book called Art and Life in Renaissance Venice which is a more modest and perhaps pop-historical example. Cultural history? Mentalites? I want to read more books like this, about the art, clothes, rituals, ways of thinking of people in the past, but I'm not sure what keywords to use, section of the library to look in, etc. Basically I want art history, but with a somewhat broader view than *just* the development of this or that painter or style in isolation, which is what I get from some of my art history books.
Infinite-Ad3519 2 points 21h ago
Did renaissance artists draw from imagination? I know they used models for painting, but what about drawing and sketches?
I can't imagine they'd have a model ready everything they draw.
I can't imagine they'd have a model ready everything they draw.
LordCommanderBlack 1 points 1d ago
In the US many of the State police forces are referred to as "State Troopers," What is the origin of this term for police?
Anything to do with the State Militia forces that used to be called to act as a police force during times of upheaval?
Anything to do with the State Militia forces that used to be called to act as a police force during times of upheaval?
dandan_noodles 2 points 1d ago
are there any sources that give a breakdown of the steps and time to construct a log cabin in colonial / pioneer times? i see references across the internet to ~1-3 man-weeks but without much elaboration or hard evidence, so would be interested in seeing if there's anything specific out there.
Bodark43 2 points 22h ago
A pretty hard question because it would depend on the structure; how carefully the logs would be hewn, fitted and jointed, and what timber would be available. On one hand, small-diameter trees could be limbed, peeled and almost stacked to make a simple pole shack, then chinked with clay and moss. On the other extreme, someone lucky enough to be in the southern Appalachians might have access to tulip poplars that were straight and limbless for 30 feet, two feet in diameter. With sharp tools they could be shaped almost as easily as soap and dovetailed tightly, needing little chinking.
Peter Gott had a long career building log cabins. He and some students knocked out a simple 12x12 cabin as a Foxfire project with students, using handtools, in 9 days. https://theblueridgehighlander.com/Foxfire-Southern-Appalachian-Heritage.php
He also had a book published by Mother Earth News in 1987. Like many of their publications there's a somewhat gosh-ain't-it-wonderful point of view that tends to obscure the real labor involved in moving and shaping that much timber. But it comes close to describing the historical process.
Petersen, D., & Gott, P. (1987). Building the traditional hewn-log home: With Master Logsmith Peter Gott.
Peter Gott had a long career building log cabins. He and some students knocked out a simple 12x12 cabin as a Foxfire project with students, using handtools, in 9 days. https://theblueridgehighlander.com/Foxfire-Southern-Appalachian-Heritage.php
He also had a book published by Mother Earth News in 1987. Like many of their publications there's a somewhat gosh-ain't-it-wonderful point of view that tends to obscure the real labor involved in moving and shaping that much timber. But it comes close to describing the historical process.
Petersen, D., & Gott, P. (1987). Building the traditional hewn-log home: With Master Logsmith Peter Gott.
dandan_noodles 1 points 8h ago
going a little bit further out on a limb, do we have any solid idea of the man-days blockhouses took during the same era?
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