https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=203.12.104.16 2026-05-13T14:40:08Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.39.3 https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=12th_Century_literacy&diff=3419 2004-02-28T08:36:35Z

<p>203.12.104.16: </p> <hr /> <div>The majority of the 12th century populace was illiterate. This was not something imposed by the upper classes upon the lower, but instead simple a consequence of literacy being of little use to farmers and suchlike.<br /> <br /> For those who were well to do, but not noble, occasionally schools would be run in town by clerics for a small fee. These would teach only the basics of learning. Boys who learnt well here could go into the clergy and follow a variety of lifestyles from itinerant preacher, monk, teacher or pursue a career in academia if their skill was sufficient to attract a patron.<br /> <br /> Nobles (or presumably anyone else with such a large budget) could employ a tutor to teach individual children or small groups of children. Noble girls and boys were taught alike, often the noble girls ending up with a better level of literacy than the boys who left earlier to become knights.</div>

203.12.104.16 https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=12th_Century_Life&diff=3420 2004-02-28T08:28:15Z

<p>203.12.104.16: </p> <hr /> <div>Daily life in the [[12th Century]].<br /> <br /> This set of articles is intended to be a scholarly (i.e. reference your sources) guide to the daily particulars of life in an interesting historical century, particularly in the area of [[England]] and [[France]], because these are easier to research. The chief aim is to describe the daily aspects of life (when you ate, how you went shopping, how much it cost, what you did for fun, etc.), rather than the grand historical events (although some of these will be needed to be linked to as background).<br /> <br /> ==12th Century Topics==<br /> ===Money===<br /> *[[12th_Century_coins| coins]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_monetary_units|monetary units]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_purses|significance and use of purses]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_taxes|taxes]]<br /> *foreign coin<br /> *[[12th_Century_prices|prices - worth of goods]]<br /> ===Shopping===<br /> *[[12th_Century_shops|shops]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_markets|markets]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_fairs|fairs]]<br /> *what to sell?<br /> ===Food===<br /> *[[12th_Century_meals|meal times]]<br /> *common ingredients<br /> *for the poor<br /> *for the rich<br /> *recipes<br /> ===Sanitation===<br /> *sewers, or lack thereof<br /> *[[12th_Century_garderobes|garderobes]]<br /> *bathing<br /> *[[12th_Century_female_hygiene|female hygiene]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_food_hygiene|food hygiene]]<br /> ===Clothing===<br /> *fabrics<br /> *clothing styles<br /> *[[12th_Century_fashion|fashion]]<br /> *accessories<br /> *tailors<br /> ===Entertainment===<br /> *music<br /> ** [[troubadour]]s<br /> *poetry<br /> *theatre<br /> *[[12th_Century_drinking|drinking]] (incorporating drinks,taverns, drinking games)<br /> *[[12th_Century_sex|a friend for the night]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_Games|Games]]<br /> ===Education and learning===<br /> *early schooling<br /> *more schooling<br /> *[[12th_Century_Universities|universities]]<br /> *apprenticeships<br /> *[[12th_Century_literacy|literacy of the populace including women]]<br /> ''Religion''<br /> *the church<br /> *[[12th_Century_symbolism|a few examples of the symbolism of objects in the 12th century]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_myth|some 12th Century Myths]]<br /> ===Travel===<br /> *[[12th_Century_overland_travel|overland (by Road)]]<br /> *[[12th_Century_oversea_travel|oversea (by boat)]]<br /> *crusades<br /> *pilgrimages<br /> *foreign places<br /> *duties and customs<br /> <br /> ===History===<br /> *[[12th Century]]<br /> *[[English Monarchs]]<br /> ** [[Henry I]] Beauclerc (1100-35)<br /> ** [[King Stephen]] (1135-54)<br /> ** [[Empress Matilda]] (1141)<br /> ** [[Henry II]] (1154-89)<br /> ** [[Richard I]] the Lionheart (1189-99)<br /> ** [[John Lackland]] (1199-1216)<br /> *[[crusades]]<br /> <br /> ===Medicine===<br /> *medicine<br /> *birth<br /> *death and cemeteries<br /> *hospitals<br /> <br /> ===Noble hierarchy===<br /> *<br /> ===Crafts===<br /> (As in what specialist tradesmen do)<br /> *guilds<br /> *names for specialist craftsmen<br /> <br /> ==Reading==<br /> *[[12_Century_bibliography|Basic General Books on 12th Century Life (a good place to start)]]<br /> *[[12_Century_References|References cited in above articles]]<br /> *Specialist Books on Aspects of 12th Century Life<br /> *[[12_Century_Links|Links to good web resources]]<br /> *[[12_Century_novels|Novels set in this period]]<br /> *[[12_Century_texts|12th Century texts (translations) that are fun to read]]</div>

203.12.104.16 https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Kingdom_of_Atlantia&diff=3959 2004-02-15T12:53:46Z

<p>203.12.104.16: internationalism, links</p> <hr /> <div>The Kingdom of Atlantia became a kingdom on May, A.S. XVI (1981) and decended from the [[Kingdom of East]]. <br /> <br /> Atlantia covers the American states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and part of Georgia.<br /> <br /> External link: [[http://www.atlantia.sca.org]]</div>

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