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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Crazy, perhaps (especially the part about no coffee!), but it's not absolutely absurd, really. The people involved in the project will learn all kinds of things like what they realize they don't know. When I was in high school, my US History class did a little thing where we made a meal to share with visitors to a log cabin trying to use the technology and ingredients from the 1870s or thereabouts. The rabbit stew and the grilled quail were great, but we discovered that we had no idea how to bake potatoes in a fire without aluminum foil and an old woman who came by told us that when she was a little girl, they wrapped them in mud, making essentially a clay casing. So, we'll see what they can create. There are, of course, going to be serious limits on authenticity; they'll need to find monks willing to live and pray in such an environment and a lay populace that actually wants to take the religious thing seriously. Then, of course, there are also the social and political institutions that simply cannot be recreated (I doubt that the German government is really going to turn the town over to a relatively independent monastery that gets to set tax and labor law, for example). -----Original Message----- From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Larsen Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 12:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [M-R] build your own monastery medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Is a Schnapsidee a crazy idea one comes up with while drinking? Andrew E. Larsen On Mar 26, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Karl Brunner <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and > culture > > In German you would call this a "Schnapsidee" ... We will see in some years. > If you want anything to know about the St. Gall-Plan, consult > http://www.stgallplan.org/index.html > Yours > Karl > > > Am 26.03.2012 um 17:51 schrieb Christopher Crockett: > >> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and >> culture >> >> "In the spring of 2013, construction will begin on an authentic >> medieval monastery town near Messkirch, in the southwestern German >> state of Baden-Württemberg. Here, a model of the project." >> >> >> http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,822375,00.html >> >> "It will take about 40 years until the final stone is laid in the >> monastery church. By then it is highly unlikely that Geurten will >> still be alive. But he doesn't mind. 'I just want a founding father's >> tomb in the crypt. Then they could come and light candles for me,' he says." >> >> c >> >> ********************************************************************* >> * To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR >> NAME >> to: [log in to unmask] >> To send a message to the list, address it to: >> [log in to unmask] >> To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion >> to: [log in to unmask] >> In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: >> [log in to unmask] >> For further information, visit our web site: >> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html