university

[thanate]

So bits of university were quite good, and others less so (and I forgot my skirt, so I went around half-dressed all day with my fencing shirt & doublet on over jeans, oops) but the high point was the fabulous class on medieval cartography, in which I learned that I need a map like this to go with my rug.

And there were worthy people, and much gossiping on the drive back (it can get highly entertaining once one gets belfebe started...) and now I have much white linen with which to make more fencing shirts with poofy sleeves. Yay sleeves!

Comments

[stanci.livejournal.com]

You only need a map like that if your persona's "early period" (from my point of view). The Portuguese were obviously far ahead of the rest of the world (or something like that... sarcasm is lost here) as you can see by the detail in their maps here (http://gallery.sjsu.edu/cartography/maps/index.html). :) Knowing where to point your ship when you're going across big bodies of water helps to not get lost!

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Lovely, lovely. But it is not a map for my persona (who might well not have known what one *was* let alone had any use for it-- Kade is temporally vague, but very lower class anyway) but for me, because it's pretty. :) and the colors go with my rug. And it has Gog and Magog on it (who were biblical figures possibly derived from early British mythology!) and all sorts of other exciting details that modern maps unaccountably lack...