1632: Las Vegas Belle Designs

The stats for the “Las Vegas Belle” are as follows:Statistics Span: 33 ft. 6 in.Length: 28 ft. 7 in.Height: 8 ft. 8 in.Empty Weight: 1,250 lbs.Maximum Weight: 1,745 lbs.Fuel Capacity: 32 gals.Crew: 2 (side by side seating)Maximum Armament: 4 50 lb gravity...

1632: Literacy Rates, 17th Century

I’m going to give some information on methodology in this field for the late 16th century and early 17th century in Germany, both reliable and unreliable. The most reliable methods for ascertaining how widely village schools were distributed in Germany for, say,...

1632: Laundry

For those of you who are ACW re-enactor types, some of the best, most detailed, and most accessible descriptions of pre-modern laundry techniques are to be found in the Civil War Ladies books. Essentially, things had scarcely changed at all between the 1630’s...

1632: Laity and literacy

From: “Virginia DeMarce” <virginiademarce@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:26:33 -0600 Subject: Laity and literacy For pulling early modern Germans out of stereotypes, one of the more interesting things to read is Miriam Usher Chrisman, Lay...

1632: Imperial Free Cities

From: “Virginia DeMarce” <virginiademarce@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:33:05 PM US/Pacific Subject: Imperial Free Cities Germany’s political structure 1600-1630 (very approximate); 50 ecclesiastical princes 30 secular princes over 100...