Building a Monastery the Medieval Way
Historians, architects, archaeologists and volunteers in Germany are teaming up to build a medieval monastery the old-fashioned way....
Seek peace, obey
Fear, serve and honor you,
Until death,
Peerless Lady.
(Guillaume de Machaut: Foy porter, XIV century)
image:Frank Dicksee, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
In early medieval times, those who wore socks were considered of the noble classes. Socks were woven or sewn by hand. And in the 16th century with the invention of the knitting...
