Trebuchets, which btw are far superior to catapults.
Magic of course.
Guillotines for kings
I would love it if taverns became a thing again, but only if they kept the time period theme up.
Taverns kind of are a thing, they’re just called hotels now.
Unfortunately they have a significantly lower focus on alcohol and food - a stark lack of mead and mutton in particular.
They’re just called pubs nowadays and many of them are still in business, with drink, food and music downstairs, and rooms for sleeping upstairs.
The one in my neighbourhood is newly reopened and serves fancy craft beer these days, but the basics are actually pretty much unchanged since a tavern first opened in that house sometime in the 1640s.
Receiving land for farting good.
Guillotines.
That wasn’t really a thing in medieval times. I’m afraid an axe will have to do.
Trebuchet?
Imagine using this for execution
Especially when you could hold a vote, letting the people decide the method. One option: yeet the person from the trebuchet. The second: yeet something at them from a trebuchet!
Bring outchyo
deadvote!!Yeet a person at this person from a trebuchet!
Of course! It’s the superior siege engine.
First used in ancient China around IV century BC.
We can get tripantium though, advanced evolution of it invented in XIII century France.
It’s okay, we’re getting rid of history lessons too!
It was an instrument used by the burghers in bringing about the end of European feudal lordship, replacing the feudal mode of production with the capitalist one.
Sic semper tyrranis
It goes Yah
This might fit in mediaeval times, with the earliest possible recorded use in the 13th century, but it’s certainly not well-known until the early modern period and most famous right on the border between early and late modern.
And the billionaires will be the first to try it out!
Free time
You seriously think they had more free time?
Guillotines obviously.
guillotines are renaissance era.
Does it matter if they are meant specifically for the ruling class?
Giant shirtless executioners then, I guess.
I’ll take the entrails of a priest.
Coinciding (by happenstance no doubt) with the fall of monarchies.
See, that kind of back talk puts you first in line for the period-inaccurate execution.
Hand to hand combat
Moats. I was kidding at first, but I’m now thinking lazy rivers are modern moats.
Moats were cool until I learned that toileting holes were often positioned such that the urine and feces wash down into the moat. I’m gonna have to take a pass on that lazy river…
Fucking guillotines already
Isn’t that more of a renaissance thing
The last time France used it was in 1977, so while it might have started a while back they only stopped using it less than 50 years ago.
Well another medieval thing we’re bringing back is not learning history
The US already has plenty of that
Doug Rushkoff had a talk where he called out local currency as a thing he’d like to bring back from the medieval.
Exclusive to the community, and only valid for a short period of time, so you can’t hoard it or siphon the wealth to another community.
Why would someone prefer that over money that can hold value over time? When I die I don’t want my wife to have to jump through hoops.
Added some links to my original comment.
It’s not instead of central currency, but in addition to it.
The advantage is that businesses can transact with less conventional liquidity so they don’t have to rely on bank loans. This allows them to charge less to customers who use the local currency.
In the long term, this makes money [in general – both kinds] move slightly faster within the local market, which makes the money [both kinds] more valuable [within the community]. And since the money [again, both kinds] is staying in the local market, the community’s wealth is less likely to be drained by external speculators.
Good luck having global trade with that.
I think Rushkoff’s notion was that new local currencies would be in addition to central currency. It just allows businesses to give a discount to transactions that will keep the wealth inside the community.
It’s a neat idea, I just don’t know how you would protect it from financial services turning it into yet another abstract tradable asset that undermines the original purpose.
Doesn’t that already exist in parts of the US? I know the UK and Germany have it.
Beheading kings.
I could be down for small beer being the main thing we drink.
