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Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 00:55 on 24th March 2009 I love history, especially medieval history. I read allot of medieval historical fiction, and one of my favorutie authors is Peter Tremayne who writes about Ireland in the 7th century. While looking through the Litchfield Cathedral tour I found this picture, and it just brings history to life. To think this book has survived so many centuries, to think of all the painstaking work put into it, I think it's fantastic.  Picture by Stephen |
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 04:18 on 24th March 2009 I know, doesn't it just boggle your mind, Sue? I had the good fortune to see one of the surviving originals of the Magna Carta in Salisbury Cathedral.
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Diana Sinclair Posts: 10119 Joined: 3rd Apr 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 12:26 on 24th March 2009 I agree with you Sue and Ruth. When ever I am at a museum and looking at furniture, pottery, or ancient jewelry, I am awed to think that 100, 600, or even two thousand years ago, some body sat on that chair, or drank from that dish, or wore that piece of jewelry. They are gone, but the items remain...something seems terribly wrong with that doesn't it? |
Bill Swan Posts: 28 Joined: 18th Mar 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 12:49 on 24th March 2009 What I would find worrying Diana is the fact that doomsday books and medieval bibles like the one above will be replaced by say an open laptop and the words may be in Gothic ('cos lap tops can do that) saying leave your comments here.......then our history will have gone .....but I try not to think of it. but its true don't you agree?   |
| Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 14:34 on 24th March 2009 I don't think there is anything wrong with that Diana. When I am able to touch (I do so like to touch things) I think of the people who've gone before me, what were there lives like, so on and so forth. I love to touch old churches, pews, alters, fonts. I think of the people who built them, who crafted them. |
Jason T Posts: 7421 Joined: 14th Apr 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:42 on 24th March 2009 Lichfield Cathedral is a fantastic building Sue, I know what you mean, its hard to imagine how old that book is and how it survived!! |
| Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 14:51 on 24th March 2009 I would love to touch it. |
Krissy Posts: 15430 Joined: 8th Jul 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 15:15 on 24th March 2009 This is what I love about England. The fact that buildings and such still stand as they did hundreds of years ago!!! And that I could stand where someone stood 700 years ago and imagine how they lived, what they looked like, wonder if the landscape was the same, who were they, what was their name... We don't have that so much here in America! This country is so young in relation to England! |
| Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 15:20 on 24th March 2009 Where I am, in the Nevada desert Krissy, when I drive to the big city through miles upon miles of desert, I think of the Indian tribes that roamed this area, and the peoples of ancient America and what there lives were like. They left no building, but they were still here, there bones are out there somewhere. |
| Krissy Posts: 15430 Joined: 8th Jul 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 15:26 on 24th March 2009 You are so right Sue!!! It's a real shame very few tribes were left as is. It's an amazing culture and I love it!! Another dark spot in American history. |
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