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[juldea]

...every now and then, I realize that Scadians really have too much time on their hands. ;)

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[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Some people read history books instead of playing KoL. Whatever turns you on...

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Heh. I do neither. I knit, I suppose? And read LJ.

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

But what was the proper term for someone with too much time on their hands, in the fifteenth century?

[londo.livejournal.com]

Noble.

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

Not so much. Nobles weren't as idle then as they were in later times. Granted, the work they did was different than the work the peasants did, for the most part, but I think their periods of idleness weren't nearly as large as one might imagine.

When Henry VIII was trying to set aside Catherine of Aragorn for Anne Boleyn, Anne complained that Henry was still wearing shirts that had been made for him by Catherine, tacitly acknowledging that she was still his wife. This implies that even queens were expected to make clothing for the household.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I prefer to think of it as "damn, everybody in Carolingia types really fast!"

[londo.livejournal.com]

The fact that someone is in the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group which recreationally does things the old-fashioned, long-winded, technology-free way, sort of indicates a priori that they have too much free time, regardless of barony.

Kind of like people who post on LiveJournal. :)