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And far too valuable to discard frivilously - I heard a medieval historian bewailing the cinematic convention of cutting a prisoner's bonds when setting them fr
by thombat 5y ago
And far too valuable to discard frivilously - I heard a medieval historian bewailing the cinematic convention of cutting a prisoner's bonds when setting them free, basically "do they not know how many hours of work it took to make a good rope? Nobody poorer than Alexander the Great would go slashing knots!"
- jacquesm 5y agoIf a medieval artisan would see us discarding so much incredible stuff without a second's thought they would for sure believe us to be utterly mad. Quite possibly they'd be right.
- beaconstudios 5y agowas it Lindybeige? He has a bit on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfpQzV2GnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfpQzV2GnM
- hef19898 5y agoI thought of the same. Just wouldn't go as far telling Lindy a historian.
- inglor_cz 5y agoInteresting. I read a book by a Czech resistance guy who managed to escape the death penalty in a Nazi court by feigning enough stupidity and "only" got sentenced to 10 years in prison in Glatz (nowadays Klodzko in Poland). According to him, they spent their prison days working on manually recycling old ropes for the German war effort. In 1944-1945.