The Armour Archive

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Jehan de Pelham wrote:New Mexico.

any chance you can regionalize what part of NM cause there is a big difference in driving between say the four corners region and the part Texas sold to pay its debts.

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for example try using a medieval style flame http://www.godecookery.com/clipart/birds/bir021.jpg http://www.godecookery.com/clipart/initials/init023.jpg http://www.godecookery.com/clipart/misc/misc006.jpg Or use the face of the helmet as the face of the sun. And for some reason I think there is one ...

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edited to add - Peder, the best part is.....he's doing just that. I'd love to see the evidence for flames coming out of mouth and eyes in a c1500 motif. cause perhaps copying those flames might make it look less like a welding or hockey or all the other stuff we paint with flames these days. I salu...

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You know your early questions seemed so promising. Blazons tend to be reserved for the person who owns them to wear himself. That is one of the reasons badges develope. I think Ulrich von Lichtenstein had his men at one tournament put his arms at the bottom of their surcuoats but thats 100 years too...

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Why not base the design off some motiff that would have been found in that period.

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My ex-wife got possession of academia in our divorce (You think I'm kidding?!?) so I make do with reading more than is healthy for a human being, and poking twigs into hornets nests. You get stung a lot, but you also can get some surprising answers. I'd love to hear how your wife got possession of ...

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It's a very complicated question, more complicated than you realize, and I don't have the hubris to believe I can give the subject a decent treatment in a message-board post when I have something like sixty pages of manuscript as an introduction to my Agrippa translation. Therefore, I will ask you ...

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I've heard that statement made before and in general I think its mostly false. Charles V really set the basic place role religion would play in European politics. Each state would decide on its own religion and while protestants tended to support protestants and Catholics supported Catholics many of...

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One question that always comes up with such things is when and where and to a certain extent what for. And in this one is it a pennance chosen by oneself, by ones confessor or ijmposed by a church court.

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Spirit is a much more accurate tranlsation both from the Latin and from the Greek. Soul tends to mean the metaphysical part of a person that is the compliment of the body which in Latin is Anima. Spirit is the breath of life. Just as in the Greek and Latin.

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Peder, can you give some more detail to your question? It's actually a bit open-ended. Can you provide an example? Short answer is No. I'm getting various types of good answers which is one of the reasons why I kept the question quite open ended only wanting to avoid a lot of argument about whether...

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why not just tin it the old fashion way?

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Ok I realize no SCA combat is historically accurate and all that stuff. But what is the first fighting manual that really puts forth what would be in the general realm of SCA rapier combat as opposed to something more along the lines of heavy combat. Yes I know its all mess and that there is likely ...

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Josh pretty much summed it up. Those are from a book that has quite a few Irish effigies in it.

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You might ask around the barony of some of the fighters who aren't actively fighting a lot or who are not going or not fighting at Gulf Wars if you can borrow their pair. That way you wouldn't have to rush and could shop there.

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Hjlmr inn Danski wrote:Greetings,

How about post 1066 Scandinavian anything?
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When I was in the SCA I did 13th century Danish. Hence the name.

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I am looking for non-material things that the SCA does and has for a long time that are generally considered non-authentic to the Middle Ages. But I am not at all interested in physical or material aspects but cultural ones. Nor do I want to see this turn into a argument thread. I'm just looking fo...

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A peasant cause they are actually quite interesting.

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. . .if I could find somewhere where it was used documentably, I'd inquire of all and sundry, "What it do, m'lord?" all day long. Unless there is another meaning of the m' contraction other then my then you should only use it when the person is your lord or husband. Although I'd love to h...

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Bertus Brokamp wrote:Sounds like a translation of the text from The Bouc vanden Ambachten / Livre des Mestiers, ca. 1371, Bruges.

The edition is old so I cannot verify that, I was incorrect and it is late-14th century so it would seem likely that it is that text especially as Caxton was in Bruges.

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I'd keep the ye's and try to keep as much of the shape and what not as possible. At some point I want to take some dialogs and put them so people can practice them. Much like learning a foreign language, modern spellings but keeping as much of the flavor as possible. Nice post Karen. MED is a nice r...

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There are more lords than knights.... That is actually a semantical issue at least from the late medieval English perspective. The late medieval English use of Lord as a title refers to barons who are peers. The SCA usage is more in line with the meaning of a lord of a manor. So while the SCA misus...

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While I could take the time to give you a 14th century one you get a late 15th century English version of a Flemish/French dialog that gives an answer Now knowe what behoueth That he have of all a partie. Whan ye goo by the streetes, And ye mete ony That ye knowe, Or that they be of your knowelech, ...

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I guess the Laurels and Pelicans would be an example of something that makes sense as part of the culture of the social club called the SCA, but is pretty ahistorical. (I imagine there have always been skilled courtiers and administrators to run royal and noble households, but not as a specific &qu...

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Dukes and Counts don't have any land associated with them... and no vassals. Do you mean a specific area of land or do you mean just land cause well most people in the SCA should have land. Murdock I read very litterally so even a hehe doesn't register much as a joke. Although definitely some good ...

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there is a website full of em go to Sca.org The purpose isn't to vet every single thing the SCA does especially as thing vary from place to place. I could likely spend the next decade going through the SCA website trying to figure out what was worth discussing and what was not. Frankly that would b...

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Sir Greggie wrote:How about the issue that in the SCA a Knight has a place in the order of Precadence, and a Baron does'nt.

They don't? I thought they did, or maybe that is just down here in Texas

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Some good ones I like the A&S competition one. Hadn't thought of that. Chef I think the people making their own stuff isn't really what I'm looking for because most of that is done away from events and would probably fit under material culture. Cetainly the idea of someone being a noble craftsma...

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Maeryk wrote:Holy bajeebus.. you don't have the space to catalog all that.

I'm looking for the major ones those most often put forward in discussions.

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I am looking for non-material things that the SCA does and has for a long time that are gernerally considered non-authentic to the Middle Ages. But I am not at all interested in physical or material aspects but culturual ones. Nor do I want to see this turn into a arguement thread. I'm just looking ...

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The 15th century English terms tend to be pallet or litter. I'm with the wool blanket crowd. have a couple of drinks before you go to bed and its wonderfully comfortable. It is unlikely that a medieval army would have been able to gathered enough straw for the whole army to sleep on each night excep...

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Find a couple that look as stylistically like it as you can and post them.

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Lets just all thank God that JT isn't God.

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Johnathon More wrote:I'm wondering if that's troll I'm smelling or just meatballs' stinky ass in the bay outside the radio room.

Very well. The feeling has been expressed by several so I shall leave.

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AndreasvonMeissen wrote:I'm one of the masses.
Does that mean I don't get to eat?

No, it means don't expect me to feed you anything.

Re: Crossroads in Time 2008

Re: Heraldry if you weren't a knight in the HYW

earliest Fencing/Rapier manual

Re: Non-Authentic SCA

Non-Authentic SCA