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A good and relaxing weekend, followed by a very good night's sleep last night. I was wide awake at 5 am, and pretty much ready to get going, but decided to take another two hours while I could. Of course, I wasn't quite as awake at 7, but it's since cleared up.
There was a lot of baking done over the weekend, and it was both relaxing and productive. And our local supermarket had artichokes, for the first time ever. Haven't had them in years, and I forgot how bizarre they are.
I'd also forgotten again how fascinating interesting research can be - not just the subject itself, but the side bits of information. For instance, in reading up on the East India Company, I discovered that throughout the Middle Ages, charging interest on a loan (or usury, as it was called) was considered immoral, and was even illegal for a few years in England in the 1500s, being called an "odyous vyce". There's also a lot of information in there about trade and craft guilds, and general economics of the late middle ages and early Renaissance.
Over the weekend, I read Monte Cook's Requiem for a God. I wish I'd had that - and 3rd Ed in general - when I started Spellbound. I can still find uses for goodly chunks of it, since dead gods have been a theme of my campaigns ever since I first came across the idea of the stone bodies in the Astral.
From Friday's game, some of the long-term mysteries in Age of Legends are now becoming important, and I'm enjoying seeing them come to light. And I got the pacing much better this time.
There was a lot of baking done over the weekend, and it was both relaxing and productive. And our local supermarket had artichokes, for the first time ever. Haven't had them in years, and I forgot how bizarre they are.
I'd also forgotten again how fascinating interesting research can be - not just the subject itself, but the side bits of information. For instance, in reading up on the East India Company, I discovered that throughout the Middle Ages, charging interest on a loan (or usury, as it was called) was considered immoral, and was even illegal for a few years in England in the 1500s, being called an "odyous vyce". There's also a lot of information in there about trade and craft guilds, and general economics of the late middle ages and early Renaissance.
Over the weekend, I read Monte Cook's Requiem for a God. I wish I'd had that - and 3rd Ed in general - when I started Spellbound. I can still find uses for goodly chunks of it, since dead gods have been a theme of my campaigns ever since I first came across the idea of the stone bodies in the Astral.
From Friday's game, some of the long-term mysteries in Age of Legends are now becoming important, and I'm enjoying seeing them come to light. And I got the pacing much better this time.
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Usury
Jewish people could go into the moneylending business, and lets be blunt here - peole borrow money when it suits them, regardless of belief. Even the crown. Then, maybe when everyone had run up a bit much debt or scapegoats were needed or something- well, whaddya know - let's burn the jews because they are evil usurers.
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Re: Usury