The Armour Archive

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Surname or given name is fine. So is something that sounds like Aaron. Just so I don't end up running around trying to answer to two names all the time. I tell everyone I know to do the same thing. I wish someone would have pushed me the same way. I'll see if I can't find more information but the A...

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And the plot thickens. The family known by the surname Aron in Shropshire may have actually been ap Aron further back in the past.

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Ok so let me get this right. He could use the name surname ap Res ap Aron because at some point in the past the family stopped using the ap as it originally was used? There's a difference between names in the early medieval Wales and late medieval England, though, and early medieval Welsh isn't wha...

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I guess my problem was that if it was an attempt to show the Fleece cycle, it wasn't done in the way the Burgundians envisioned it? When you look to Franco-Flemish art of the region and time, you don't see Ancient Greeks and Romans parading about in Imperial Gallic helmets or Corinthians, with fore...

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Can't use "O'Kieran" (a documentable late 16th century spelling of the family name "O'Ciaran") as evidence of the use of the name "Kieran" or "Ciaran" for SCA purposes, either. Ok thats what I thought. This is why I have taken up using the surname Brent. It i...

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Toby looks Tres Chique, but I must admit I never really bought that rig as being a real thing, but more of a nod to antiquity in the depiction of a Military Saint in a donor portrait. What is up with the guy in the tournament with the Roman helm? Everything looks fantastic, and I would expect nothi...

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... E 210/952 Grant by Philip Wogan, alias Philip ap David ap Gruffith Gwyn, son and heir of the same David, to Lewis ap Res ap Aron, clerk, of all his lands, tenements and burgages &c. in Doleverwith and 'le Goruyt,' or elsewhere within the lordship of Tallagharn, and in Whitland : Carmar. 21 ...

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Ok I officially feel like a complete and total moron for not cashing in half of my stocks to go to that event.

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Now I just hope the Laurel doesn't decide that an Archbishop of Canterbury is important enough to protect. *sigh* I figure he's not so important that even his surname had to be protected. If you wanted to be Simon , then it might be. Since you're happy in your Edward -ness, there's no reason for 'e...

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Thanks Peder. But don't dig too deep and waste your time. If it's so esoteric that might be bad. The key to this sort of thing is finding the right spellings. Unfortunately your stuck in the same boat I am. If yoiu want to use Aaron you'll have to use it as a surname C 1/16/578 William Aron, of Hae...

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Aaron wrote:So, in 1461 AD England, were there nobles who had the first name of Aaron.

Define nobles. Cause if you mean nobles as they understood them to be in 1461 England then I can pretty surely tell you No. Gentry is another matter.

I'll dig and see what I can find.

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What is it made from and just putting it outside in the sunlight and heat and fresh breeze may help. 4 Layers of Linen. I wear it about once a week, and try to wash it on hot, but there's always a lingering little bit of smell... and then after fighting, the lingering smell because a malodorous one...

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What is it made from and just putting it outside in the sunlight and heat and fresh breeze may help.

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--failure to elminate the "medieval psedonym" in an increasingly connected world. .... Our continuance of using silly medieval names only furthers the SCA from people who might otherwise find aspects of society life a reason to join. .... Referring to people as your highness or your majes...

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I've never understood the 1600 cut off date except to include Elizabeth, Shakespeare and Spenser. And given the Arthurian/Medieval Romance concept early in the SCA Spencer's Faerie Queen makes a reasonable end point as being the last major English work in that genre, although distinctly unmedieval. ...

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But you can always be a renaissance italian re-enacting ancient Greece or Rome.

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adamstjohn wrote:Has anyone seen medieval illustrations of anyone fighting in a cape?

Posing by a tree in prayer, yes; but fighting?

On horseback yes, not seen any of people fighting on foot.

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Relax. Just let it go without thinking about it for a week. Its Pennsic week anyways so people are paying less attention here and your not likely to figure it all out this week. Find something else to do or read or think about other then this.

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If you need to be nickel and dimeing on coins go with dimes or I suppose you could try and find some foreign coin with extremely little value. Unless someone finds an effective way to cast a medieval coin or makes a machine to mass produce them reproduction coins will simply cost too much to be effe...

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Anyone seen any that is a half pipe as in actually looks like a C instead of squared that looks like [

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chef de chambre wrote:I almost forgot, Diebold Schilling, the Berne Chronicle.

Don't forget Master WA.

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I'm sure Bob will reply much more fully but for an Osprey book its actually quite decent but he needs to get a copy of Vaugn's Charles the Bold.

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I've not been particularly been critical of the SCA. I certainly was critical of Jesters post cause bad logic is bad logic. It can certainly be said I was critical of Ansteorra. I could nit pick and be critical of the SCA all day long, honestly its boring, like target shooting at the side of a barn ...

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You can't walk into Master Domingo's camp and tell me the SCA isn't about history. This is false logic. What one person or one small group does is not necessarily equal to the whole. All that your statement says is that we can't say Master Domingo isn't about history. Something that does not fit th...

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Peder I believe you are right and it saddens me to say so, I guess I believed the hype, propaganda, whatever you want to call it when I joined in the late 80's at Ft. Hood. Imagine being 21 and told that the SCA is about history and trying to figure out why its doing what it is with no one to say l...

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Kelley my problem comes for a combination of things, not just the shield. I don't enjoy making new shields either....but combined in makes a false rule set and I believe hinders and restricts the study and art of melee combat. Do I believe others or better. no. I would like to see our rules evolve ...

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Yes, there has been a concerted effort by many in Ponte Alto to really make the newcomers welcome, and to really provide support to bootstrap them, especially in the last year. The names are legion, its not just open houses, its bringing the help to wherever they might show. The fighting practice (...

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Wash linens after every outing and knit hose every so often once they get a bit stretched.

The image I most remember from the first time of being shown the book medieval soldier is the image of the guy with the "snot" stain on his arm. I guess that explains me quite a bit.

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The fundamental problem your having is that someone along the way someone told you a lie that the SCA is about history. Because of that your trying to make it or want it to fit in a box called history. Stop trying it won't fit, it was never intended to. Most of the oh we do medieval behord is ex pos...

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The numbers problem is not a rules problem, or a gas prices problem, or a WoW problem, or any of those things. {Sarcasm on}{Some Extra Sarcasm for good measure} Do you honestly mean to tell me the last 4 pages have been nothing but excuses. Maybe you didn't get the memo over there in Europe but we ...

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Who are you... and what did you do with Peder? Thanks man, that means alot coming from a guy who is very invested in looking correct. I will try rolling the boot down next time I fight. I need to get some greaves and sabatons with turnshoes. One of the things is that people take what I have to say ...

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I've been watching illusion for years because no one out there even today can match their ballance of quality vs price. I've had many long conversations with a few of my friends about them over the years and honestly they hit the balance price point amazingly. They have always been known for poor co...

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Here is the thing. Putting it in the middle of nowhere is not going to much please anyone. People in different regions have different driving patterns which have been accentuated by the price of gas is just going to accentuate that. Holding it west of I-35 and not on the coast states just generally ...

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Well, here it is. I finally have a pic of my kit, thats actually out on the field doing something. Go easy on me. I am still technically a newb, only in the SCA for 2 years now. Time in is irrelevant. Someone can be in 20 years and still be in utter crap. You've done a good job so far. Might want t...

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Before aiming for a whole DVD I'd take aim at a "movie" preview like piece. Like 2 min and get it up on youtube and see if you can't get some viral action going. Actually I'd make two of them one to release now and one like a month before the event that is even better then the first one. H...

Re: 1461 AD, England -- Was anyone named "Aaron"?