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Let Us Be Joyful!
I would like to offer a hearty hello to my fellow Æthelmearc Gazette readers from Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon. As you may recall (if you’ve been around many years), I once wrote a weekly column for...
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Medieval Seals and the Sealing of Documents
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Medieval Seals 12/10/2014 Hello, everyone. Today I received a notice via FaceBook that Robert The Bruce’s desk seal was up for sale,...
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The Miracle of Light Through Glass
The Miracle of Light Through Glass 12/25/2014 Good morning to my readers from Dame Aoife Finn. Happy Christmas, Kwanza, Eid, Solstice,...
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Keeping Time: Calendars and Clocks Through the Middle Ages
Detail of the Zygtlogge Tower in Berne, Switzerland. Photo source: http://io9.com/astronomical-clocks-were-a-wonder-of-the-medieval-world-1484069867 Hallo everyone, and happy New Year. Will your new...
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Breaking News: A Brief History of Fart Jokes
NOT SAFE FOR WORK! Some manuscript examples in the links below contain medieval drawings of nudity, which may or may not contain intimate body parts your boss will hate to see on your work...
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Crypto-What-Now? Decoding Medieval Manuscripts: A Research Guide
Good Evening, my happy family of medievalists! I recently went to look at a manuscript as a primary source. I know, it’s a never ending exercise in frustration. When you pull out a manuscript (or more...
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Is Crown Tourney Your Cinderella Story?
Cinderella, in a Victorian illustration. Image courtesy Andre Cefalo. One of the most outstanding and attractive features of SCA life is the knowledge that the Cinderella Story (or the Pauper to Prince...
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Much Ado About Pennsic
Merchant’s Row near the Mid-East pavilion. Photo credit, Aoife. Hello, readers! Here in Æthelmearc, we have been attending Pennsic so long that for Pennsic veterans, attending it is a matter of...
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That delightful cart pony
Photo and story by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon (Lisbeth Herr-Gelatt) Meet Triskel, the Trimarian cart pony, and his faithful canine companion, Toby. Triskel was hard at work this past Pennsic every day...
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What’s in a Word?
Medieval Speech Bubbles illustrated in this picture from Medievalbooks.nl One of the least-used aspects of history for re-enactors is probably language. In the SCA in particular, it would be...
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Bobbin Along: Lace-Making the Late Medieval and Renaissance Way
Jo Edkins’ Bobbin Lace School: A Bobbin Lace Hedgehog (an sca-like whimsy, not necessarily historical). Lace-Making was such a lucrative past-time in our period of study that young ladies with that...
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs: The Legitimate Study Of The Medieval Paranormal
As re-enactors, we try to represent the reality of day to day life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. There are a few things we choose not to re-enact, however. It wouldn’t be any fun to reconstruct...
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Pennsic Needs Princes! Disney Princes, that is…
The current gamut of Disney Princes. Could YOU reliably play a prince for a few hours? This post is shared from the East Kingdom Facebook list: Pennsic needs Princes! No, no, it’s not that Adam Brennan...
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Update: Beasts and Monsters at Pennsic!
As previously reported, avid Pokemon hunters (and those who just enjoy a good challenge) can enjoy a medieval, analog fix at Pennsic next week. Pensimon Go: The Menagerie Quest will run from 9 a.m....
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