[Namron] Re: [Ansteorra] Newcomers

[Karen Sullivan]

you can get a copy through the SCA web site ( the market place)

Radei Drchevich wrote:

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