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by Baron Alcyoneus
Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:46 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: I just love love love this photo
Replies: 25
Views: 1021

Real building, fake LED candles. :roll:








:P :P :P :P :P :P
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:37 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Smoking in the Modern Middle Ages (14th to 15 century)
Replies: 69
Views: 1698

There are, um... "alternative" histories that posit that both Romans as well as Egyptians visited the Americas, but... ;)

Niacin is nicotinic acid, so it may be that was found(from another source) rather than tobacco.
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:04 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Smoking in the Modern Middle Ages (14th to 15 century)
Replies: 69
Views: 1698

It is a New World crop, so they didn't know it existed until after 1492.
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:51 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Knives, Daggers&Bayonets
Replies: 3
Views: 136

It is pretty decent, and gives a good overview with some detail, although a lot of it is modern (like 19thC ;) ).

He even says "chain mail" at one point. :twisted:
by Baron Alcyoneus
Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:09 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Knives, Daggers&Bayonets
Replies: 3
Views: 136

Knives, Daggers&Bayonets

I picked this book up at Borders for $6. I only briefly thumbed through it before buying it.

Is it any good? Some guy named Dr. Tobias Capwell wrote it... ;)
by Baron Alcyoneus
Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:22 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: SCA and Allegory
Replies: 20
Views: 568

If we have artwork of a tourney and that artwork depicts Mary with a hallo wearing a sideless surcoat judging the tourney, we can assume that the sidless surcoat is an allegorical uniform because it is 200 years out of date... but it still isn't what Mary would have worn circa 0 AD. If we re-create...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:08 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Earrings in period
Replies: 32
Views: 695

Brueghel's Christ Carrying the Cross: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rTCf7kvE8Oo/RyNPGXsldBI/AAAAAAAABAI/nbzw0snIkxM/s320/cross_Brueghel.jpg Earrings, facial piercings on men, sure...but these were the bad guys taking Christ to his death, so they represent immoral people, degenerates, wearers of plastic ...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:09 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Globose or Churburg 13?
Replies: 33
Views: 811

So is walking. :P
by Baron Alcyoneus
Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:06 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

I just looked for the earliest use in the OED. ;)
by Baron Alcyoneus
Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:48 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Sword & Board vs Two Hander for weak sauce shoulders.
Replies: 13
Views: 552

When I realized that I couldn't hold my shield up (rotator cuff), I kept fighting using 2 handed stuff.

Then, I had to heal for quite some time...but the 2H did no more additional damage.
by Baron Alcyoneus
Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:25 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

I don't know how much it matters, but from seeing Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates, I know that in Danish, the word for Christmas is "Jul," which is pronounced "Yule." I can only think of two instances where "Yule" is used in English: ⋅  One is in the carol ...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:08 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

... but the SCA as a whole will never come close to understanding, representing, or looking like the TRUE medieval era until it can get past its intitutionalized, codified repulsion of the medieval Christian religion. And that, of course, can not and will not ever happen. More's the pity. And I don...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:33 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: (SCA) Why is there no 'clearinghouse' site of practices?
Replies: 24
Views: 1005

Baron Eirik wrote:Two words describe the issue fully imo.

Volunteer

Bureaucracy


I volunteer Ingrid!

Is there a second? ;)
by Baron Alcyoneus
Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:19 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: ho ho ho...12 knives of Christmas
Replies: 32
Views: 1713

Dear Mr. Galileo,

Please, STFU.

Have a nice day. :P


:wink:
by Baron Alcyoneus
Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:13 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

Yeah, well. One of my friends is "destroying the SCA" by allowing mullets (pagan stars) in heraldry now. Thing is the mullet is period; Christians used it to represent the five wounds of Christ and there is another meaning with the five parts of Catholicism (The father, the son, the holy ...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:27 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Looking for period illustrations of Pilgrim staffs
Replies: 16
Views: 345

[img]http://www.lib-art.com/imgpainting/8/8/9688-st-christopher-albrecht-d-rer.jpg[/img]
by Baron Alcyoneus
Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:19 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: What book would YOU want for Christmas?
Replies: 56
Views: 860

It would be a book by Carlo. 8)

Churburg or Wallace, it doesn't matter! :lol:
by Baron Alcyoneus
Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:18 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

I submit that a religion which demonstratively did have temples, and a priesthood, which has devolved into a series of folk-beliefs, without a priesthood and said temples, is no longer the thing it once was. And perhaps a religion that started as a small group of people that were opposed to the ins...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:32 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: More info on this suit?
Replies: 11
Views: 641

They can hold the lining/glove inside the gauntlet.
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:39 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Casting for armour fit
Replies: 39
Views: 2169

I've thought about using fiberglass casting tape to make a mold with, although removal isn't near as easy as with this stuff...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:10 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: So who's going to be at Kris Kinder?
Replies: 20
Views: 335

Armor merchants that were in attendance(but not mentioned here):

Glendour
Andy Ward
Waldryk
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:53 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Casting for armour fit
Replies: 39
Views: 2169

About how much did it cost for everything you did?
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:20 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: XIV cen arms protection
Replies: 14
Views: 615

[img]http://gdfbglobal.com/images/products-big/GDFB-AS-002-A_b.jpg[/img]

No, those would be fine(or at least pretty close).

Edward, Black Prince of Wales (1330-1376):
[img]http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/canterbury-cathedral-photos/xt-4310.jpg[/img]
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:16 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Ottoman's 1453
Replies: 6
Views: 193

I do not think that word means what you think it means... :P
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:23 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Ottoman's 1453
Replies: 6
Views: 193

Good guys, or bad guys? ;)

There are a couple Osprey's covering the topic, and I think I have them.
by Baron Alcyoneus
Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:47 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Something Interesting or Controversial
Replies: 69
Views: 2113

How about "Can tell when Broadway is bored..."
by Baron Alcyoneus
Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:11 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Performance Armour is not what they claim
Replies: 106
Views: 7383

He's doomed. When Jess is on the case, it's game over IMO. She's the legal version of an armoured and armed (with twin Uzis) pitbull, but nice and kind to those who don't need to have a bite taken out of them. Yep, Jess is a nice, kind, beautiful armoured pitbull lawyer, with twin Uzis. Is there li...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:39 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: information on this image?
Replies: 15
Views: 502

Since the link is for a reenactment of a 1380 battle between Russians&Mongols, it probably is Russian...ish. ;)
by Baron Alcyoneus
Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:08 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Return of the Waistcoat "Suit" (DONE, with new pic
Replies: 74
Views: 9306

Dressing for Success in a Hostile Business Environment. :)
by Baron Alcyoneus
Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:01 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Earliest European Travel to Japan
Replies: 9
Views: 318

Who are you going to listen to, me, or the guy that knows what he is talking about? ;)
by Baron Alcyoneus
Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:37 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Earliest European Travel to Japan
Replies: 9
Views: 318

Marco. Dutch traders, Portuguese Jesuits, Black Ships, Southern Barbarians, all of these should help in your search. They were there by 1500 or so, but contact was limited. There was a Spanish governor in the Philipines by 1600, and for the life of me, considering how much further Eurpeans went, I c...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:39 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Kansas city FP, Where and when?
Replies: 7
Views: 154

It can be a bit hard to find the first time, but if you are on Roe Blvd. (I think), you can go through the Walmart parking lot and it is a couple blocks W of it. Mapquest it. I wish it was a bit closer, I'd go every week, or at least as often as I could. I've gone to the Lawrence practice, and at ab...
by Baron Alcyoneus
Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:00 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Terms and modern historical “re-un-accuratesâ€
Replies: 525
Views: 13019

Where did Christians get the eggs and bunnies from? ;)
by Baron Alcyoneus
Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:57 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: For Sale: Boccia's Armi e Armature Lombarde
Replies: 11
Views: 495

Couldn't you sell your daughter? You can make another one. ;) ;) ;)
by Baron Alcyoneus
Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:17 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Gothic Breast
Replies: 6
Views: 702

It has become fashionable to use grandpa's toys again. ;)

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