[Namron] Re: [Ansteorra] Newcomers

[Radei Drchevich]

Where could I get a copy of this book  please??



>From: Romana Thiana <romanathiana at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Barony of Namron <namron at ansteorra.org>
>To: Barony of Namron <namron at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Namron] Re: [Ansteorra] Newcomers
>Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:08:10 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Greetings M'lady Rose,
>
>The copy of the handbook I have is from 1985, it's the
>20th year edition.  Yes, it's old; yes, I'm old too.
>And mine has purty pictures in case you can't read.
>
>The Table of Contents is listed as such...
>
>1. The Knowne World Around You
>    The SCA Today
>Growth of the Knowne World
>Who's Who-and What's What
>Anno Societatis-The Years fo the Society
>The Last Rounament
>A Brief Look into the Past
>
>     Basic Culture
>Coutesty and Etiquette in the Current Middle Ages
>When You're Called in Court
>respect
>How to get what you want out of the SCA
>
>2.  LIVING IN THE CURRENT MIDDLE AGES
>     Translating Mundane Necessities into Medieval
>Graces
>Basic Costuming
>Costuming from Mundane Patterns
>Making a Ribbon Trim Lay Flat on a Round Neckline
>Geometry of the Circle Cloak
>Costumes from Contructed Patterns
>A Survey of Fabric and Color
>The 5 Hour Viking
>Shortcut to the Groaning Board
>A Beginner's Feast Manual
>The Pleasures of Cloven Fruit
>Eating Medievally in the Mundane World
>Cooking from Primary Sources
>The Touney Dog-and other creatures
>SCA CAmping for the indoor -oriented modern
>Waggonloading for the compleat idiot
>Medieva Verisimilitude
>A viking pavilion
>Tourney table
>The arming pavilion
>How to have current middle ages children
>Helping your kids grouw up in the SCA
>How to survive a tourney
>choosing a persona
>Documenting your name
>Heraldy in the SCA
>
>3. THE ARTS OF PEACE
>     The Arts & Sciences
>
>Starting a Library
>An Anachronist's basice reading list
>If you really need the picture
>The problem of Ruiranian purple feathers
>Dancing for the Middle Ages
>Medieval & Renaissance Music and Instruments
>Period Vocal Music for the Multitudes
>Listening to history
>Ganing Medievally
>Jeu de Boules
>On the miking mead
>practical herbalism
>designing for canvas and crossstich
>Crosstitch charts for Laurel & Pelican badges
>catalog of medieval embroidery stitches
>calligraphy and Illumination: a primer
>interlacing without erasing
>the ABC's of scrollmaking
>scribing from scratch
>Autocratting can be fun
>God rest ye, frantic autocrat
>writing a newsletter
>the art of writing forsoothly
>speaking forsoothly
>how to run lists
>4. THE ARTS OF WAR
>     Fighting in the SCA
>
>the rules of the lists
>policy and interpretation
>period fencing rules
>armor and weapons standards
>missile combat rules
>building rattan swords
>sheilds-design and construction
>a few references for further reading
>13th c. barrel helm
>open faced spangenhelm
>14 c coat of plates
>faster mailmaking
>winding the rings
>articulation articulated
>gambesons, cloth armours, and padding
>naming the parts-an SCA harness
>an introduction to arms
>etiquette on the field of honour
>safety and courtesy on the archery range
>squiredom
>combat archery
>the art of sword and sheild
>
>and a whole list of special features.
>
>
>I found this book to be a great overview of the SCA.
>It tries to give a brief dabble into some of the more
>popular things we do in the SCA.  That you found this
>book to have nothing helpful in it for you is amazing.
>  You must have known more about the SCA than your
>average new person does.  I wonder what research you
>did before playing this game.  Did the epiphany change
>you in anyway?  (Methinks you do not have the same
>book in mind as the one to which I refer).
>
>I am also surprised that you do not know who/what the
>Stockclerk is...
>
>It is the office from which you can receive past &
>present SCA publications.
>
>Regards,
>
>Romana
>
>
>
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