The most important encyclopedia of the 12th century was written by an Alsatian abbess at Hohenburg Abbey, Herrad of Landsberg, 1130-1195, as a teaching tool. The middle ages are full of incredible women but yet modern progs only use the same fakeish poster children like Earhart. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4c0fa9bf4928f70c52cc943f6a959f07f7eef212b54fd4d2906b2204c4a85b78.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e69b61fa1b231119e0c7943dba110b59b02c4fa26b881943ceac33d230b02e3a.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4f6cea424e118f8f17164ea67b28effe116ac5098780f886435d490c26579066.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f503e860b12b9fdb78a7511564936d995871255a21931ecc7a1a31493a4784c6.file

It would be easy for immensely wealthy places like California to build entire neighborhoods or cities impervious to wildfires. But of course they won't. However as an experiment it would be interesting if California could allow a single street to be built using traditional earthquake and fire-proof building methods: thick walls of earth, no gutters to collect flammable debris, windows and doors that can be easily sealed with wet clay and shuttered to not shatter from heat, and tiled roofs that won't catch fires from embers. Like the Japanese Kura storehouses. A system of neighborhood covering sprinklers would also be extremely efficient and not even require a new type of homes. Fire season is coming. As usual. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5534e60abfc9a167d3fc0fa4e58041d6a10183d8ef76af9b87bdcb9bee4f88d2.file

Today's long read. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5b0aef8cd2a85f788c0dfac95a9734c9c2ad97347115911a72d9dac685ca11ce.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f380ef42a12d62155aeb102c63f0fca41741e4d9b1182885af6b137c56e179c3.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9b0d578330f97aa3b59934cd5c4b56fa4a147f29665e064678bea3f8073f7d4c.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f4d0000c159f355c5576ba307455807aa8dab2d42b57b97415c79184c3006d0f.file

“A characteristic of Roman law, ownership, the right to ‘use and abuse’, did not exist in our medieval customs, which knew only usage; and usage, moreover, that was most of the time burdened with multiple easements.” — Regine Pernoud, Those Terrible Middle Ages, 1975 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a004132b80ef7f6a62ba707b615abd53e1c685833a36f63530123534e63997e6.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5646e873adcfe85e1652d53fc0a0ad4b3e2e8e3c78c0c7f760305652a40d0f6b.file

“Far more than a determined juridical category, serfdom was a state, tied to an essentially rural and land-based mode of life; it obeyed agricultural im­peratives and, above all, that necessary stability that a landbased culture implies.” — Regine Pernoud, Those Terrible Middle Ages, 1975 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4eb3e97146b4bd8583983e3627a736a8a9dc801c661a42b31299eba16c3aec5e.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/857208ef70def04efcf225c442ff8eceae512829944f6617134dd33832c3b705.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/31c6344eab9f47a8689d573ac523be0896a52f11b111e9f355e1047f24f58fa7.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b56b063b7f61330cd2891d710f5fdf70c2f71d91872e287901f84ab46167f27c.file

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Maybe the finest organic urbanism to come about in the US in the last few decades. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bfb011b28cb3ef997723c8c68c3d611a709c90257fe66c690134253f378b52ef.file

That is a beautiful home. Built in 1731 by John Vassall of Jamaica as a summer home. Timber frame on a fieldstone and mortar foundation. Doubled in size in 1800. Not a complicated construction. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3f83d65dcab8e59fc89f3815394991760784fcf5a7df52f9696bdc67a655d5d7.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2fa75c6ce882fd63988fed62b4a46dee0ecc2faacfe1d9585494f372335dd8df.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/aee99067c2193948e4f4ed3a7fe556a04b0e7282d190509fab0453bc21990d89.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bdbc79cd787e14c5deccbda87e0134b9fb5fdbc0fc6c9301a2ef5dc6b81f83c1.file

Where are the dolts with the airplane with measles gif when you need them? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/938fb1a68daafe4445173a54b96d479c0e8073af2a8480c4a0b6c7f34522506f.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2632472bcfa75f5ab77acfbf19b254357e8555d42d034d292c0a6a0001997036.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c81b634814fa84f25998915a033e15c63aa451817fd1803c31b3500f1a95cf2b.file