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Most students of human rights trace the historical origins of the concept back to ancient Greece and Rome, where it was closely tied to the premodern natural...
Houses of Hermes descibes Tremere as a player of Chess. No other Founder or House has a canon game or sport as a social activty. Magi of The Order of Hermes...
Here are some ideas as they come to me... Mernita would have a thriving culture of word play, such as word association or puns. Just imagine the three decade...
... My first reaction to this is that the order treats pretty much all mundanes the same. However it seems to me that two classes of mundanes would recieve...
... Jeremiah, I'm not sure if this is entirely relevant to the Hermetic topic, but in our current age, the idea of natural law is _not_ the dominant strain of...
... A) In terms of the Rights of Magi. B) In terms of the Rights of Mortals. Theoretically, the Rights of Magi are limited only by their Oaths. They have...
Insurance in some form is as old as historical society. So-called bottomry contracts were known to merchants of Babylon as early as 4000-3000 BC. Bottomry was...
... <Puts on his pedantic history hat> While there might be burial & benevolent societies, none of them would be actuarially sound - let's not forget that such...
Supposedly, duty is the main driver in a mage's social life: magi have a duty to their covenant mates, their apprentices, and the Order as a whole, as spelled...
... How did they set rates, if they didn't track that, say, one in five ships didn't survive and the average cost of a ship is N pounds plus the value of...
... Possibly Harco and other mercantile covenants, and some so-inclined private magi, would sell insurance. I can see lab insurance, with specific exeptions....
I wouldn't say it was the main driver; it puts limits on a magus's social life, boundaries, but very few magi spend as much as half their seasons fulfilling ...
... Do you think so? My sagas have always averaged 10-14 seasons of duty to covenant, lineage, secret society, Hosue and the Order per 7 years (a Tribunal...
... Probably by what the market would bear. A very accessible mass-market book on this subject is _Against the Gods: the Remarkable Story of Risk_ by Peter L....
... If death and accident rates are relatively constant over time (which would generaly be the case in a traditional society), you don't need actuarial ...
As I see it, serving your covenant and training your apprentiece are themselves duties. (I'm assuming there's a charter obligation to improve the covenant.) ...
Simplify the question: How did they set rates AT ALL? Did they pull a price out of a hat? ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!?...
It might operate as hreppar did in Iceland. A member who lost more than one fourth of his herds to disease was entitled to recover half his loss. Half the...
... They wouldn't. The concept of insurance, for the most part, didn't exist. God raises up the poor and lays the high low. No use worrying about tomorrow....
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I'm be interested in improving this chronology. Corrections, with citations, are encouraged. Suggestions for mundane events of interest to magi, too. I intend...
And I'm be claiming that I is a professional writer. Sheesh. I've uploaded an RTF version of the timeline and the Peripheral Code doc, for folks sans Word. Tim...
The first requirement of any Roman will of historical times was the appointment of one or more heirs. An heir, in the Roman sense of the term, was a universal...
Dragon and the Bear describes the following scenario: Right from the beginning the Novgorod tribunal attracted Bjornaer magi. Their domus magnus was at...
By the late 12th century the Christian cosmology of Europe regarded human nature as innately weak, sinful and vulnerable to demonic temptation and deception...
... [snip] ... To the idea that mortals were innately weak, sinful, and vulnerable to demonic temptation? They'd probably agree in general, and may add that ...
... one ... stilt- ... been ... towns. ... [snip most of post] I've read this a couple times, and I was wondering what the question was supposed to be? TSBO...
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