#pyrinee

[davidmontaner]

[jeanjauthor]

What can I do to show a country with an inspired time period of Western and southern European renaissance/Tudor times but without guns, gunpowder or corsets? I do have theatre coming and religion but nothing

A country with a time period inspired by Western & Southern European renaissance / Tudor... no buns, gunpowder, or corsets...

Architecture and furniture, for one. A lot of people know what the iconic Tudor style is like: beam-and-plaster. Big thick heavy timbers (some light, some dark) with plaster in between, the beams can be straight, curved, or angular. But they also have a lot of brick in some of those buildings, too, such as in Germany (not sure if that's far enough West for you, but it's pretty architecture).

You can look up furniture as well. Most of it will still be hard wooden (not quite sure when upholstry techniques were discovered), but it will definitely be decorated with cushions, a lot of carvings, and some curvature to the seats & backs have started to develop.

Walls will definitely be painted, and there might be tapestries. NOT just embroidered ones! Painted wall hangings became quite popular...and were considerably cheaper for modestly prosperous farmers & artisans to afford, plus they cut down on drafts in winter.

Glassware has started to join pottery as a thing more people can afford. Mirrors are becoming popular, too, especially silver-backed Venetian glass mirrors...though if this isn't set in our world, or at least in an alternate-history Earth, you'll want to come up with a name & a place for such luxury goods to come from.

Without gunpowder, etc, the bow & crossbow will still be the top tier ranged weaponry (not counting magic, etc) for personal combat, but they'll also probably have the arbalest & ballista. Catapults are not as good as Hollywood pretends they are; their max weight at launch isn't very much, maaaaaybe 40 pounds-ish? Trebuchets are where it's all at, those effers can hurl whole cows. (Not advocating the flinging of live livestock, but also flinging dead livestock is kind of a "biological weapon of terror" thing, so it's not all that nice, either.)

Roads are slowly getting better, but they'll still be rutted and awful when it rains. Mostly it'll be roads inside the towns that will be graded and cobbled, and even the villages will start getting some decent streets. Shoes will still be problematic, though: hobnails are for mud and grass and slippery terrain that the nails can dig into, but they will slip on the hard stones of settlement streets, so your townies will want non-nailed shoes that won't slip quite so much.

Oxen will still be in some of the fields, but horses will gradually be taking over the pulling of the plows. Same for pulling wagons. The advent of the iron horseshoe goes a long way toward helping them, but they'll have the same slipping issue on cobbled roads. Donkeys and mules are still very much a part of everyday work & transportation for small carts & itinerant worker's & trader's loads.

Harvest time will still have very significant cultural importance, because although farming will have had a few innovations to help things along (mostly in terms of crop rotation, compost & manuring the fields, etc), it's still going to be close to 90% of your population devoting their lives to growing & preserving the food that everyone needs to eat the rest of the year...and most foods will be seasonal, because there's only so much you can dehydrate, smoke, salt-pack, salt-brine, or fermentation-pickle.

But in colder climates (think the Alps & Pyrinees) where the mountains get freezing cold, you can have ice houses, packed with straw and carefully ventilated & drained, with plenty of sawdust.

Also, industry will start to use water-powered "engines" for doing things. Not just turning the mill wheel to grind grain into flour, but to pump the bellows for a blast furnace, to smelt iron. ...This does lead to other problems, however, and that is the deforestation of the area around a smelting foundry. So your people will either have to figure out how to do forestry management, or they will need to discover other burnables, such as coal deposits (which cause their own problems) or natural gas (which China had discovered & started using well over a thousand years ago, piped via bamboo sealed with clay from the gas fields to the furnaces for pottery, etc).

...With all that said, one of the things you can do to look up inspiration is the BBC's Life on a Tudor Monastic Farm series. They did an outstanding job of re-creating daily life in England (which counts as Western Europe even if it's not Southern Europe) in the Tudor time period. You even get to see them going to other locations, which means seeing what the buildings looked like, as well as showcasing daily life.

[communitymanagerandorra]

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[donuts4evry1]

flower photos from the pyrinees: heath spotted orchid, 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪, wolfsbane, aconite, pyrenean lily

OHHHH PRETTIES!!!

[urcelay]

summer in the Pyrinees

august 22

[thisisigloo]

Unas almendras de calidad merecían un packaging a su “altura” y si encima su origen es el prePirineo oscense, ¿qué mejor que un envase con forma de montaña para venderlas? Con este packaging logramos una rápida identificación del producto en el lineal del supermercado, en tiendas minoristas, en espacios gourmet, etc. así como conseguimos un envase cómodo para degustarlas en cualquier lugar: en el cine, en la calle...

[foodaddiction101]

[elpaisdellop]

Santuari de Núria

[sendersdelllop]

Vall de Núria

[shamandream]

[davidmontaner]

[fushoots]

Col du Pourtalet, Pyrinees, France 🇫🇷 . . #fushoots #letsguide #localguides #coldupourtalet #valledetena #pirineosaragoneses #pirineos #pirineo #pirineus #mountains #pyrinees #france (en Col du Pourtalet) https://www.instagram.com/p/CivjpJxjjfT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ramonetis]

[migueltriano]

Pyrinees ´18

[sinatraaloof]

Rodès, Eastern-Pyrenees, France.