The Armour Archive

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Brent, if you were suggesting I had an idea for a site out here, unfortunately I really don't. Events like this are best on private land and those places are the best but hardest to find unless you know the owner already. Can't offer any ideas there, sadly. Not even so much a site but where decent ...

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I know you don't care much if it conflicts with an SCA date but about half of those listed are in the SCA and in that part of the country is Estrella War February 9th â€“ February 16th 2009. It certainly won't help to be on that week or probably the week before or week after. Jeff grew up in the are...

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You can also always ILL or see if a local library has a copy to look at.

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The complete five-volume paperback set: ISBN 0-8122-1737-3 1744 pages $135.00 Whew, there's some serious scholarship there, for sure. I'm not sure if the "Whew" was a reaction to the price but mine was that's a pretty good deal. Law codes like that and similar documents scholars can spend...

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That's one portable persona. I've got the staff, can draw up traveling papers for passage on parchment &. I'd be good to go ( & John would have to house and feed me as pilgrim... it would be his 14th century Christian duty to do so... hehehe [img]http://www.mediumaevum.com/brent/12thnight/1...

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If you want all those things and horses you will be looking for a site that you will need insurance for or you will need to rent something like a 1,000 gallon water trailer. Or half that if you can find ready access to refill it half way through. You will also want to aim for a reasonable distance f...

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http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13446.html

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70lb is almost certainly too heavy. When I did my first one I think I went with a 60lb then I went down some to like a 32lb, then I flipped through the pages of an actual Caxton and I went to a 24 or 20lb depending on what I could find.

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I am well aware that darn near every single 'joust' that one can find is very likely stage combat on horses. This is clearly an exception, and as I understand it from some posts on the archive, there are others in the US as well. So... is there any place someone can go to find 'real' jousting event...

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it would be interesting to know how many actual cases of heat stroke and dehydration are actually documented at pennsic. i bet the local hospital keeps some kind of records on those things and it would be easy to compare any increase in the first week of august to the weeks before and after. While ...

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Lets see how much hate mail I can get with this. I declare the game over...you can't get cooler than this. We talk about raising the bar, the only way you can top this is even richer array; Here is the thing about the "bar" or actually the two bars. The bar you are refering to is the top b...

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As I understand the policy, this would be disallowed. Any formal organization of waterbearing by the sponsors creates a liability. They cannot, for example, look at the checklist and simply assign 'John Waterboy" to make sure there are refreshments on the field (while reminding John his role i...

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As I understand the policy, this would be disallowed. Any formal organization of waterbearing by the sponsors creates a liability. They cannot, for example, look at the checklist and simply assign 'John Waterboy" to make sure there are refreshments on the field (while reminding John his role i...

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Amen Alfred let them pass out. let them feel like crap for a day or so. whats the big deal. regards logan Your Grace, I honestly shudder. It scares the $hit out of me that someone of your background and renown in the SCA would truly believe this. That is being a bit melodramatic. I wasn't the least...

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i live in sc now and we have had three weeks of 100's days with 70% humidity and i work out in the field for 10 hours every day. i consume on average 4 or 5 16oz bottles of water each day and at least one or two large diet cokes from a gas station fountain. we have lots of homeless people here in c...

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Just a note I work 5 hours starting at 3am in a warehouse that is probably 85 degrees in the summer time and I sweat to the point of having to wring out my shirt by 6am. [/i] Have you thought about wearing linen? Park you know me well enough to know that the answer is yes and actually I wear a line...

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it shocks me to hear concerns that people are going to start falling over dead or near death if people arent going around with water (and gatorade, which is about the most useless thing a person can consume while engaging in physical activity). either way its a self correcting problem when someone ...

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I am still not sure why more events don't just offer bottled water to everyone. Bottled water is inexpensive (especially when bought in bulk), and I am sure if someone did their budget well, it would not realistically alter the costs for an event, or add significntly to the gate fee. Atleast in som...

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I think there should be a big distinction made between making water and other fluids like gatoraid readily available especially someplace like the list or battle field and having people going around with communal drinking containers. The first is pragmatic, later can be problematic. While yes everyo...

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Maybe someone read your anti-SCA posts and handed you the mono infected bottle on purpose This was like 9 years ago I was reading about mono and most sources says it has a 4-6 week incubation period so I went and checked old e-mails to see if I could ensure that I got it at that Atenvelt FP and the...

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Theoretically I have two in Georgia being held hostage by Glen Kyle.

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BTW I was editing my post when you replied. I generally think most comparisons drawn between what yall are doing and what say a LH group does is like comparing apples and oranges. There are things you can compare, which is sweeter or has more Vitamin C or whatever but doing historical spectacle spor...

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You know I wish I could take things less seriously and be more fun but its just not me. People will ask me if I had fun and honestly I'm not sure I understand the question. I think its one of the reasons why I like Hugh Laurie is because he has said he doesn't have fun or pleasure and yet is hilario...

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I have a copy "Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria" that I'll sell if your interested. Which is mid to late 13th century.

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Knowing me as you do, you put 'cute' at the front of that query just to tweak me, didn't you? To answer your questions, the vet is attractive, middle aged and very married. On the other hand, we have a bevy of young, single, very attractive grooms. Unfortunately they're all sighing over Luke and Ar...

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I will say that it does make the horses pretty bomb proof about a lot of things! If I recall correctly being bomb proof was never one of Petrus's weak points, I seem to recall sitting on his back when a nice size ACW cannon went off. Didn't even startle. I think he was standing there going "I'...

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Maybe someone read your anti-SCA posts and handed you the mono infected bottle on purpose Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no one is out to get you. This was like 9 years ago, huh but what if someone has a time machine... For better or worse I've said some things in ways that I migh...

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I knew I should have sued the SCA when I got mono from water at an SCA FP. So you're not leaving, then? No, I am. Waiting for money to arrive to send out books. I've gotten one in the mail still waiting on the others. Then I can set the router to block. For some reason I can't avoid reading this pl...

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I knew I should have sued the SCA when I got mono from water at an SCA FP.

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Don't. As a general rule coffee table books are not known for having good texts so if it doesn't have good art work from the period it isn't worth the money. Flip through the book and see how much of the artwork is medieval and how much of it is modern, typically 19th century or produced specificall...

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kelly powell wrote:I thought this is what the jesuits were for.

Jesuits don't come around until the 16th century.

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The book being written in English follows the same reasons as Henry's book. Until Richard's time it was not considered how one wrote a book for that level of society. Once more has little to do with his ability to read or not read English as well as French but literary tradition and changes in it. ...

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Not read it, although I wish I would have gotten the copy I saw a while back. A lot of it is nuts and bolts kinda stuff.

You can look at the contents and preview on google books.

http://books.google.com/books?id=pR58Wn ... Vg#PPP1,M1

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While I understand what you are saying Russ I think that line of thinking starts with a false premise that how and what we do now is actually what diplomacy is vs how it was done in the past. Pierre Chaplais in his English Diplomatic Practice in the Middle Ages pretty much explains the English syste...

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How do we know they did not cuss each other out in English? His clarification isn't what language could they cuss in. The intent of his answer is which language do we think their mind would have slipped into if they were not thinking about what language they were thinking about language. Typically ...