Recent content by Eleanor Konik

Thank you for sharing this! I was not familiar with this kingdom, although I'm loosely familiar with many other West African kingdoms.

Do you mean crimes generally? Because the medieval criminal code is pretty easy to find out more about. Drawing and quartering in response for treason, for example. Or do you mean specifically modern crimes that can only exist in the modern day, like, I dunno, identity theft or automated bank...

I've heard "hawkmaster" before.

It would really, really mess with your weather currents. One of the reasons that the oceans flow the way they do is because saltwater is heavier and denser and "sinks" and salt doesn't freeze as well. I found a great article that does a much better job than I can of explaining it: Convection...

Several protagonists in L. E. Modesitt's Saga of Recluse were carpenters, including the main character in the first book, Lerris -- so there's definitely potential! The magic system in the Saga of Recluse was based around physics concepts of entropy and there were basically three types of mages...

Here's a pretty cursory overview of Courtship "in the west" that you might find useful: The 4000 Year History of Courtship by Thomas Umstattd Jr. Many indigenous American cultures did things differently, of course: Trial Marriage in the Andes on JSTOR (jstor is free during the pandemic, you...

I haven't, but it's part of KU and the premise looks a bit like Ilona Andrews' Innkeeper Chronicles, so I'll check it out. Thanks!

According to WHO, temperatures of 140°F to 150°F are enough to kill most viruses, According to this recipe, you would use 170 degree water to make blood sausage.

I'm using Chrome on Windows. I can take a video if it matters.

I mark time in Verraine using the concept of a <em>decan. </em>From wikipedia: <em>In astrology, a decan is the subdivision of an astrological sign (zodiac sign). In order to give fuller interpretation to the zodiac signs, ancient astrologers subdivided each sign into periods of approximately...

For some reason when I try to click on the link to the Getting Started with Portfolios content the link just... doesn't work, unless I right click and do the "open in new tab" thing. Am I doing something wrong? Is something broken?

The idea that ancient civilizations were isolated is one of my biggest pet peeves. I think it's an artifact of textbook structure, personally. For example, the fact that the Phoenicians are literally the same culture as the Canaanites and Carthage is something that people overlook, and it's a...

If you're particularly interested in border forts and border barons from a historical perspective, you're limiting yourself pretty much to societies that had, well, forts. Forts are expensive and difficult to maintain and not terribly useful to a lot of ancient socieites because they don't do...

If you enjoy the Mayans and astronomy and mathematics, and environmental science as it relates to ancient civiliatons... I bet you find the calendar stuff interesting too. I think you'll enjoy this article (which I didn't write, this isn't self-promotion) about Akkadian ploughing: Old European...

I don't know a ton about early <em>banking </em>outside of Europe, but readers of this article may be interested in the idea that early <em>currency </em>was probably invented by the Phoenicians sometime around 1350 BCE. Phoenicia is geographically the Levant and they were heavily involved in...