[HN Gopher] The Expenses of Queen Eleanor of Castile
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       The Expenses of Queen Eleanor of Castile
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2022-11-14 19:01 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | robocat wrote:
       | I would be interested to see the complete list, and a comparison
       | to the costs of a modern equivalent. I would guess the costs for
       | most things has dropped dramatically, while the cost for
       | professionals has relatively risen. The professionals mentioned
       | were                 -- The queen even had an illuminator in her
       | retinue, Godfrey 'pictor', who was responsible for decorating her
       | books and is also mentioned in the accounts            -- Eleanor
       | granted power to William de Verges, yeoman, to do fealty in her
       | name to Guy, Count of Flanders, for the land that had fallen to
       | her by hereditary right.            -- The wardrobe account also
       | records payments made to the queen's own fowler (or bird hunter)
        
       | mellosouls wrote:
       | Slightly off-topic/meta.
       | 
       | I know these submissions from more literary/arty/cultural sources
       | don't always generate the volume (or anything like) of discussion
       | compared to the more usual tech/science/business/etc articles,
       | but I personally appreciate the freshness of the subject matter
       | (and the submitter's effort) especially when - like here - it is
       | outside of my cultural hinterland (mediaeval accounts!) but
       | merges with it via digitisation in a way that would seem alien
       | and magical to the original actors.
        
       | fundad wrote:
       | she made a lot of soap
        
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