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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 9148502" data-attributes="member: 70">I was feeling a little burned out on something, so I've started both Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel, by Boris Akunin; and A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344, by Judith M. Bennett. I WANT to start running a D&amp;D campaign again, but I keep getting sidetracked (avoidance behavior) and I've been trying to combat a raging desire to do a nice chart of travel/road encounters. That aren't all monsters. Which made me wonder about medieval travel. And medieval lives. And this was lying around. It's a...reconstruction? Extrapolation? Exploration? of Cecelia's life via surviving manorial records (which are actually quite abundant apparently, despite the fact she didn't write) as a &quot;normal&quot; medieval peasant of her time and place. (There's a few paragraphs about how she's not &quot;typical&quot;, and peasants are different all over the place so typical is a bad word, but she was pretty much just ordinary for being an unmarried peasant woman who had some property.)I don't know where I got it; I tend to pick up books about medieval life and toss them on the shelf or pile and pull them out occasionally when I can't sleep. Someone did a bunch of underlining in it.Oh, I'm also selectively rereading past issues of NOD, from John Stater.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 9148502, member: 70"] I was feeling a little burned out on something, so I've started both [I]Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel[/I], by Boris Akunin; and [I]A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344[/I], by Judith M. Bennett. I WANT to start running a D&D campaign again, but I keep getting sidetracked (avoidance behavior) and I've been trying to combat a raging desire to do a nice chart of travel/road encounters. That aren't all monsters. Which made me wonder about medieval travel. And medieval lives. And this was lying around. It's a...reconstruction? Extrapolation? Exploration? of Cecelia's life via surviving manorial records (which are actually quite abundant apparently, despite the fact she didn't write) as a "normal" medieval peasant of her time and place. (There's a few paragraphs about how she's not "typical", and peasants are different all over the place so typical is a bad word, but she was pretty much just ordinary for being an unmarried peasant woman who had some property.) I don't know where I got it; I tend to pick up books about medieval life and toss them on the shelf or pile and pull them out occasionally when I can't sleep. Someone did a bunch of underlining in it. Oh, I'm also selectively rereading past issues of NOD, from John Stater. [/QUOTE]

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