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jjhunterThought experiment I'm hosting over at my journal, jjhunter: Come All Ye Castles, Ancient and Neglected
For those more historically than scientifically inclined, it would also be really helpful for me to have a better sense of what the year 0 / baseline conditions would be like right before the theoretical castle is abandoned. Assume that right up until the moment of abandonment, the castle is fully functional, and of a size to host / entertain visiting nobility. How might it be constructed? What species of plants and animals might be intentionally (or contrarily) present within the building and the immediate surrounding grounds? How many people might live or work there year-round? What's the climate like in the Centre region of France in the 16th - 17th centuries? Is it any difference from what the climate's like now?
Tangential, but related, research topic: what might people be eating in that region of France during the late 16th century? Where would I even start researching that?
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jjhunter: Come All Ye Castles, Ancient and NeglectedSo: castles. Let's do a version of this thought experiment with a castle, say a château (-fort or otherwise) like the Château d'Ussé in France. If you take humans out of the picture for a hundred years, what happens to that building and the land immediately surrounding it? If we were to take snapshots of particular elements at 10, 20, 50, 100 years, what would that progression look like?
For those more historically than scientifically inclined, it would also be really helpful for me to have a better sense of what the year 0 / baseline conditions would be like right before the theoretical castle is abandoned. Assume that right up until the moment of abandonment, the castle is fully functional, and of a size to host / entertain visiting nobility. How might it be constructed? What species of plants and animals might be intentionally (or contrarily) present within the building and the immediate surrounding grounds? How many people might live or work there year-round? What's the climate like in the Centre region of France in the 16th - 17th centuries? Is it any difference from what the climate's like now?
Tangential, but related, research topic: what might people be eating in that region of France during the late 16th century? Where would I even start researching that?
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A/N: admins, can haz appropriate tags?
