[TheForge] Historical blacksmithing

[Jerry Frost]

I guess we guys are just thinking anachronistically? <smirk>

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:14 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Historical blacksmithing


> Guys, you really need to quit falling into the trap of thinking that
> everything in history is how you were taught in school.
>
> Like anything else, the position of Blacksmiths in various communities
> varied quite a bit, depending on your when and where. In the area I'm
> recreating, blacksmiths (of both genders!!!) were considered petty
> nobility. In other places, they were considered craftsmen (or women)
> or servants, or in a few cases, slaves.
>
> Please, don't generalize all of history based on what happened in
> Europe for a couple hundred years- there's much more out there to
> discover.
>
> -- 
> Saint Phlip
>
> So, you think your data is safe?
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2
>
> Heat it up
> Hit it hard
> Repent as necessary.
>
> Priorities:
>
> It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.
>
> .I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
> notices I have read with pleasure. -Clarence Darrow
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