Medieval Diesel ✓

[image] John Gardner's whole chapter on Chaucer's early education as a boy is magnificient--really opens the eyes to how important it is to grow up around good books--but the closing paragraph I attached as a photo below sums up something that many medieval enthusiasts try to articulate

[image] It's amazing how much medieval people knew of the world. They invented "windrose lines" on charts for navigating with a compass in the late 13th century, which led to "rhumb lines" and the 32-point compass rose that charts still use today. This Spheres Tapestry (left image) made

[video] When you use a trained falcon to catch your dinner, rabbits and heron are on the menu! Here is an interesting thread on medieval falconry I wrote.🧵