Desmond Seward has an excellent book that is an overview of it. Very well written and readable.
http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-War ... 634&sr=8-1
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- Tue May 10, 2011 12:39 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 100 years War research
- Replies: 13
- Views: 633
- Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:49 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "The Sword in Two Hands by Brian Price" review wan
- Replies: 841
- Views: 116518
With all this criticism of the SCA knights not taking action sooner and not “controlling their own”. And as the knight who stood up 20 years ago in the belted circle that was considering Brian for Knighthood, and said, "If you consider me a knight, Brian, should be a Knight." I offer up my belt. Ju...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:58 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval Mythbusting - Silk shirts
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1375
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:43 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Medieval Fiction
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1913
- Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:02 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA in Nyc?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 813
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:56 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval England richer than Zaire
- Replies: 9
- Views: 499
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:35 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Santa's 'uniform' - possibly/probably NOT medieval....
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2294
The wiki picture might be the best help. Its important to note that the American depiction of Santa Claus is at best a combination of "Father Christmas" and St. Nick. In Europe they have traditionally been two very distinct people. When I was a kid in Germany St. Nick's day (I seem to remember dec 5...
- Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:23 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Combat archery, a converted perspective.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2193
- Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:31 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 10th century Moor shield decoration? UPDATE, FINISHED
- Replies: 17
- Views: 695
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:11 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Heavy Fighting in the Shire of Glaedenfeld?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 255
I'm from Rising Stone immediately to the south of Glaedenfeld. about a 20 to 30 min drive depending on where you live in nashville. And generally a much better place to live than nashville. (but im biased.) At Rising Stone we have several heavy fighters of great skill. We are most generally consider...
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:40 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Fiar's Habit
- Replies: 7
- Views: 412
They grey friars are indeed Franciscans. They were formed by St Francis of Assisi around the early 1200's (possibly as early as 1209) with his first formal order being formalised in 1223. After his death there were variations on the theme, but generally you are looking at a grey habit being specific...
- Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:46 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Fight in a Corn Maze
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1652
Res battle. Control points that are checked every X minutes for control. Two (or more - could even go four?) sides enter from opposite sides of the maze. Minotaur (one fighter) lives in the middle; this fighter is clearly marked by some sort of costume, horns, etc. He is free to wander the maze. He...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:52 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Border Raids! Help repel the Meridian Raiders!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 242
- Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:22 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Matters of Honor
- Replies: 203
- Views: 8489
in my opinion most of you completely miss the point of this. You apparently love a piece of human history to the point where you're willing to re enact it but only certain parts of it? Sure. I guess I like anti-biotics too, and I guess I was grateful for the cardiac surgeon instead of leeches or so...
- Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:22 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Matters of Honor
- Replies: 203
- Views: 8489
I might suggest that historical re-creation and victorian romantacism aside what we do on the field is at its core a sport. Therefore to me challenging another person to a duel by SCA rules to settle a point of honor is no differant than challenging someone to a basketball game to settle a point of ...
- Thu May 06, 2010 10:33 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: *VIDEO* - Meridian Spring Crown List 2010 - Final Round
- Replies: 57
- Views: 2805
Outstanding points all of these. (of the post immediately previous) I am not in the least surprised that Sir Ulrich was involved in the discussion. (Thats a good thing by the way, not sure if it came out right.) For myself one of my mantras is "Question Everything". That being said there's an approp...
- Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:07 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Do you know how hard you hit
- Replies: 65
- Views: 2624
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:09 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: meridies crown
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1542
<snip> Out of curiosity. What happens if Erick and Leyli get to the finals? I'll have to ask them tomorrow at fighter practice. Simple , the same thing that happens in any other tournament - they would both fight their best, one would win one would lose. One would become Prince the other Princess -...
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:02 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: meridies crown
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1542
- Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:05 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Rough Draft Crown Tournament Shield Law
- Replies: 143
- Views: 6012
I think I posted this before, but I don't know of a single competitive martial art or sport that doesn't regulate its equipment in some way. Spin it anyway you want, but there isn't much denying that big shields provide an advantage. I don't see any harm in defining a tournament standard and a mele...
- Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:47 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Platform/wooden floor for tents?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 958
- Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:48 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Shield art for a clovenshield viking
- Replies: 10
- Views: 628
Magnificent. Had never thought of working Moorcocks chaos symbol into knotwork like that but I feel stupid now that I hadn't its a bloody simple idea. I've got a friend working on a crow wheel variant for me, (using the celtic crow wheel base but replacing the crows with Raven, Bear, Wolf, and doing...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:57 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Returning from Gulf Wars
- Replies: 97
- Views: 4682
This was my second year at Gulf Wars and my first year to be able to fight, and I loved every bit. I was fighting with Legio LXIX from Meridies. At the castle battle I was the guy with the Rainbow shield for any who were near black widows breach. Not my normal shield but Heimdall was protecting me t...
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:05 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Byzantine "Jewish" Hats? - looking for more info
- Replies: 29
- Views: 788
Some (limited) research (used here to mean I poked around the net a bit) seems to confirm a general belief that the soldiers available to Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem proper were auxiliary legions. This seems to have led to a belief that some of the legions consisted of Jewish soldiers, hence the bel...
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:01 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Bling is the Thing
- Replies: 17
- Views: 999
- Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:45 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I wanna be Swiss in 1475
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2816
On the Hessian Mercenary bit, it might be helpful (for you or others) to note that the term "Hessian" in reference to the British Soldiers in the Revolutionary war was apparantly a misnomer. Large number of the mercenaries were from Hess, but there were many from a wide variety of German states, oft...
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:06 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How to fix a Rhino (SCA).
- Replies: 340
- Views: 15764
- Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:29 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Helms used at the Battle of Visby (Wisby)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3304
Is that the average today...or in 1361? Cause they probably aren't the same. That was a modern site. So 600 years ago would definitly be different. But one can logically assume not drastically so. By which I mean it wasn't the Gobi desert back then and suddenly turned into a reindeer playground. Bu...
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:00 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Corsets for men?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 634
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:10 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Helms used at the Battle of Visby (Wisby)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3304
I can't say that I know what the climate in Gotland is like. In my experience, any carcass, left in the sun, in mid-summer, bloats. I would think that this could also make armour retrieval somewhat problematic. http://en.allmetsat.com/climate/western-southern-scandinavia.php?code=02590 a site that ...
- Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:34 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: The Aurochs are coming back!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 380
- Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:22 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Helms used at the Battle of Visby (Wisby)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3304
Thinking about it from a project manager point of view, which may or may not be valid. We've found something like 2,000 bodies across five mass graves. (wikipedia cite.) This was in July on an island in a saltwater sea. Not sure how the salt air would affect things, I'm pretty sure it would change t...
- Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:51 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: SCA Heraldic question on painting a helm.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 288
SCA Heraldic question on painting a helm.
So I'm painting my helm, I realise not great, but given the condition it was in when it was gifted to me its the better option. Don't get me wrong its a great helm (the adjective not the noun). Just was in a condition where painting is a better idea than the industrial grade sandblasting that would ...
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:05 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: My bad luck continues.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1679
Re: My bad luck continues.
What kingdom is Mexico? and can we decalre war on them in support of Sir Vitas? It's not like the heat will be any worse than Pennsic, and at least you'll know why you got the runs :) -Takeda I have a friend from New Mexico and he once told me that someone out there had laid claim to it. Outlands m...
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:47 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Chainmail only battle at Pennsic- Opinions?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 4745
A thought which occured to me would be a way to make this needlessly complicated. If you had enough people you could always add the battle of Stamford bridge. With the victor then marching on the Norman position at Hastings. Firstly its a bridge battle, so bonus points there. Secondly, and primairly...