New Page Created
Hey all. This is a brief note, sort of a public service announcement. I just posted a new page showcasing my apprentice THL Astrid Esbjornsdottir‘s creative creations. Enjoy!
More From the “What Was I Thinking?” Files
Perplexing Pictures In Manuscripts
“Banquet With Courtesans In A Hostel” ca. 1455 – BNF, Paris Does this fun picture remind you of an SCA post revel? Music, food, and merry-making, but in Medieval clothing. Look again. What’s really going on? You see the musician, but one guy’s up-chucking and another’s getting handsy with a woman. The title divulges they’re cavorting with…
Creating Award Scrolls: Illuminating Light and Shadow
Hey there, fellow SCA scribes and all who follow this blog! Recently I discovered, to my delight, that the issue I had with my hands — peripheral neuropathy — has subsided enough I can return to painting award scrolls again. After 5 years without using a paint brush I’m rusty. So I’ll be learning some…
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Jacques de Longuyon’s poem“Vows of the Peacock.”1350s Tooting butt trumpets, really? It’s amazing what you can find exploring Medieval illuminated manuscripts on the Internet. And this isn’t the only one. Medieval scribes worked long hours in cold rooms bent over their work. To entertain themselves bored and cranky Medieval scribes used the page’s margins to kvetch,…
On becoming a Peer
Another perspective on being a Peer in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
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Cambrai Channsonier, MS. 126B fol. 132v, Bruges 1542 Bibliothèque Municipale, When you look through this 16th-century songbook made for a Bruges aristocrat you see it’s filled with artistic, decorative daily life images. But it also includes many that are bluntly bizarre or crazy. It’s the Cambrai Chansonnier, MS 0128 dated 1543. Its fun pictures are delicately drawn in…