Dissolution of the Monastaries, but for Tech Companies
April 8, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Dissolution of the Monastaries, but for Tech Companies
I'm hearing a lot of farming, hobbying, art and a lot of hermetism.
I feel like we're about to invent monastaries.
I feel like we're about to invent monastaries.
January 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm hearing a lot of farming, hobbying, art and a lot of hermetism.
I feel like we're about to invent monastaries.
I feel like we're about to invent monastaries.
I dreamt of humans getting together and writing hand written human content in secret internet gapped monastaries and selling it to the ai giants for huge sums of money as novel training sets to fund their cave cities
June 11, 2026 at 6:15 AM
I dreamt of humans getting together and writing hand written human content in secret internet gapped monastaries and selling it to the ai giants for huge sums of money as novel training sets to fund their cave cities
Dissolve the megachurches like Tudor monastaries
March 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Dissolve the megachurches like Tudor monastaries
this reminds me of the incredible essay on etymolonline dot com about how one of the earliest motivations for the english to relearn how to read old english was having to decipher all the anglo-saxon-era land records after the dissolution of the monastaries
Incredible things happening with Indian cadastral records. Ah, you can't find out who owns what land b/c it's written in a now unused script. Beautiful.
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 AM
this reminds me of the incredible essay on etymolonline dot com about how one of the earliest motivations for the english to relearn how to read old english was having to decipher all the anglo-saxon-era land records after the dissolution of the monastaries
Lagomorphs were common doodles & illustrations in the margins of illuminated manuscripts made vibrant with gold silver & other bright pigments. These books were written by hand (and copies made by hand) in the Middle Ages almost exclusively in the libraries of medieval monastaries. #2026MMM
March 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Lagomorphs were common doodles & illustrations in the margins of illuminated manuscripts made vibrant with gold silver & other bright pigments. These books were written by hand (and copies made by hand) in the Middle Ages almost exclusively in the libraries of medieval monastaries. #2026MMM
Calling the Vikings professional is relying on some serious myth making. Easy to be great against unarmed monastaries and small coastal towns.
Thw Prussias is a weird and again more nuanced system. The role of education above all else. It also ignores the wider German states' role.
Thw Prussias is a weird and again more nuanced system. The role of education above all else. It also ignores the wider German states' role.
July 25, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Calling the Vikings professional is relying on some serious myth making. Easy to be great against unarmed monastaries and small coastal towns.
Thw Prussias is a weird and again more nuanced system. The role of education above all else. It also ignores the wider German states' role.
Thw Prussias is a weird and again more nuanced system. The role of education above all else. It also ignores the wider German states' role.
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Wonderful to be there as Charlotte Gauthier [@faraiunvers.bsky.social], Edmund Wareham Wanitzek & Lyndal Roper launched their site - pop over to get a sense of the huge scale of destruction of monastaries and convents during the Peasants' War
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July 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Wonderful to be there as Charlotte Gauthier [@faraiunvers.bsky.social], Edmund Wareham Wanitzek & Lyndal Roper launched their site - pop over to get a sense of the huge scale of destruction of monastaries and convents during the Peasants' War
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Wonderful to be there as Charlotte Gauthier [@faraiunvers.bsky.social], Edmund Wareham Wanitzek & Lyndal Roper launched their site - pop over to get a sense of the huge scale of destruction of monastaries and convents during the Peasants' War
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I mean, I was teaching on the dissolution of the monastaries yesterday and it may have come up
October 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I mean, I was teaching on the dissolution of the monastaries yesterday and it may have come up
That's what churches, monastaries, temples, mosques, and synagogues are for. Keep the religious stuff in those please.
September 17, 2026 at 1:09 AM
That's what churches, monastaries, temples, mosques, and synagogues are for. Keep the religious stuff in those please.
Meteroa Monastaries
Kalabaka, Greece
I figure we all have enough crazy shit going on, so just fun and lovely images today. Meteora means “suspended in the air” which aptly describes these rock top Greek Orthodox monasteries #meteroa #photography #greece #palatecleanser #breathe #ensuredsafety
Kalabaka, Greece
I figure we all have enough crazy shit going on, so just fun and lovely images today. Meteora means “suspended in the air” which aptly describes these rock top Greek Orthodox monasteries #meteroa #photography #greece #palatecleanser #breathe #ensuredsafety
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Meteroa Monastaries
Kalabaka, Greece
I figure we all have enough crazy shit going on, so just fun and lovely images today. Meteora means “suspended in the air” which aptly describes these rock top Greek Orthodox monasteries #meteroa #photography #greece #palatecleanser #breathe #ensuredsafety
Kalabaka, Greece
I figure we all have enough crazy shit going on, so just fun and lovely images today. Meteora means “suspended in the air” which aptly describes these rock top Greek Orthodox monasteries #meteroa #photography #greece #palatecleanser #breathe #ensuredsafety
For starters, being a scribe is a highly skilled profession, so there weren't a ton of them. Plus, they mostly worked out of monastaries and universities (and among the elite), all of which were controlled by the Crown/Church (they were basically the same entity so I'm just going to say the Crown).
July 21, 2026 at 7:42 PM
For starters, being a scribe is a highly skilled profession, so there weren't a ton of them. Plus, they mostly worked out of monastaries and universities (and among the elite), all of which were controlled by the Crown/Church (they were basically the same entity so I'm just going to say the Crown).
imagine writing your posts in deep woodcut letters, aligned carefully on the press, stamping your words into the vellum and sending it to all the monastaries to let em know about your sandwich
June 16, 2024 at 5:35 AM
imagine writing your posts in deep woodcut letters, aligned carefully on the press, stamping your words into the vellum and sending it to all the monastaries to let em know about your sandwich
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June 26, 2026 at 6:41 PM
'I do will and give all the Leade being in my howse whiche came frome the Nonnerye to the said Thomas Culpepper my sonne in lawe' ...
Will of Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne, Kent. Proved 1539, during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monastaries (and convents!).
Will of Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne, Kent. Proved 1539, during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monastaries (and convents!).
February 25, 2026 at 5:17 PM
'I do will and give all the Leade being in my howse whiche came frome the Nonnerye to the said Thomas Culpepper my sonne in lawe' ...
Will of Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne, Kent. Proved 1539, during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monastaries (and convents!).
Will of Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne, Kent. Proved 1539, during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monastaries (and convents!).
Setting that aside for a moment, the program itself is delightful. They use abandoned structures as opportunities to drop some history knowledge. With Lindesfarne, for instance, I didn't know that when Henry VIII cut ties with the Catholic Church he took monastaries & executed the monks.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Setting that aside for a moment, the program itself is delightful. They use abandoned structures as opportunities to drop some history knowledge. With Lindesfarne, for instance, I didn't know that when Henry VIII cut ties with the Catholic Church he took monastaries & executed the monks.
I know this absolutely not what I'm meant to take away from this but it did make me curious about how monasticism worked in America.
Where was it concentrated? What role did it play in the American Catholic church? How economically viable were they? (Medieval monastaries could be very rich)
Where was it concentrated? What role did it play in the American Catholic church? How economically viable were they? (Medieval monastaries could be very rich)
Palantir CEO Alex Karp just paid a staggering $120 million for a 3,700-Acre Colorado monastery.
It's the most expensive residential property purchase in the area to date.
Karp reportedly owns 20 properties around the world, many in top skiing locations.
It's the most expensive residential property purchase in the area to date.
Karp reportedly owns 20 properties around the world, many in top skiing locations.
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I know this absolutely not what I'm meant to take away from this but it did make me curious about how monasticism worked in America.
Where was it concentrated? What role did it play in the American Catholic church? How economically viable were they? (Medieval monastaries could be very rich)
Where was it concentrated? What role did it play in the American Catholic church? How economically viable were they? (Medieval monastaries could be very rich)
trump such a war hawk the anglican church declares they'll start rebuilding the monastaries
April 17, 2026 at 9:11 AM
trump such a war hawk the anglican church declares they'll start rebuilding the monastaries
When King Henry VIII shut down the Monastaries he also said it was financial.
July 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When King Henry VIII shut down the Monastaries he also said it was financial.
a fool and his monastaries are soon parted: church and castle ruins, Inishmore (Aran Islands) and Galway quarters, (part two,
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a fool and his monastaries are soon parted: church and castle ruins, Inishmore (Aran Islands) and Galway quarters, (part two,
[ see part one of these notes here ] Monday, July 7, 2025: We woke in Belfast, as one does, and made our way to the shared bus with Rose a...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
a fool and his monastaries are soon parted: church and castle ruins, Inishmore (Aran Islands) and Galway quarters, (part two,
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-fo...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-fo...
Me too, but I don't think it fits...he wasn't so much into rubbing elbows with the rich, famous, and degenerate as he was into living in Buddhist monastaries for years.
That's what I'm telling myself, anyway.
That's what I'm telling myself, anyway.
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Me too, but I don't think it fits...he wasn't so much into rubbing elbows with the rich, famous, and degenerate as he was into living in Buddhist monastaries for years.
That's what I'm telling myself, anyway.
That's what I'm telling myself, anyway.
Sadly I could only manage a flying visit to #RenSoc25 but I saw a great range of excellent papers, taking me from attacks on monastaries in the Peasant's war, to rebellious forest of Dean miners, to the origin stories of elite families in Grand Ducal Florence.
Lovely to see so many familiar faces!
Lovely to see so many familiar faces!
July 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Sadly I could only manage a flying visit to #RenSoc25 but I saw a great range of excellent papers, taking me from attacks on monastaries in the Peasant's war, to rebellious forest of Dean miners, to the origin stories of elite families in Grand Ducal Florence.
Lovely to see so many familiar faces!
Lovely to see so many familiar faces!
I'm wondering what the history of that looks like. Where in the past has that happened? Dissolution of the monastaries?
April 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I'm wondering what the history of that looks like. Where in the past has that happened? Dissolution of the monastaries?
Before mechanization, before seafaring, the entire English economy lived and died by textile production. Henry VIII became one of the wealthiest monarchs ever at that time by the dissolution of the monastaries - which were so wealthy because they WERE the English textile industry.
I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills
To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.
August 4, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Before mechanization, before seafaring, the entire English economy lived and died by textile production. Henry VIII became one of the wealthiest monarchs ever at that time by the dissolution of the monastaries - which were so wealthy because they WERE the English textile industry.