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Re: medieval village book?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 20 Feb 2002 02:59:36 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman writes:
> I've spent the better part of my evening trying to find a book with good
> pictures of houses from the medieval period. I'd like primarily pre-Tudor
> style (cerca 1000, rather than cerca 1500), and also an emphasis on peasant
> and burgher houses rather than churches and castles (i think ive seen enough
> of those!). If anyone knows of anything off hand, that would be a great help.
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> I'm going to use them to get some more realistic ideas for new MOCs.
> Especially in figuring out how to use all my blue and yellow bricks. I keep
> feeling like all medieval villages are either black, brown, or grey.. with
> the occasional white and even less occasional other color.
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> thanks for the help!
> peace
> -lenny
Lenny, you might want to give David Macualay's (sp?) _Castle_ a try. It
focuses primarily on the construction of a castle, from meager beginnings to
the glorious final result, through sketches. VERY awesome book. It has a
lot of villiage information in it. Also, Eyewitness Books (the series) have
a lot of great medieval information.
HTH,
-Chris
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