SC - New book available April 2001

[Gerekr at aol.com]

>Coming soon to a book vendor near you...
>
>Daniel Diehl and Mark Donnelly.
>Medieval Celebrations : How to Plan for Holidays, Weddings, and 
>Reenactments With Recipes, Customs, Costumes, Decorations, Songs, 
>Dances and Games.
>Stackpole Books. April 2001.
>ISBN: 0811728668.
>...
>The author also wrote these SCA perennials:
>1. Constructing Medieval Furniture : Plans and Instructions With 
>Historical Notes, 1997.
>2. Medieval Furniture: Plans and Instructions for Historical 
>Reproductions, 1999.
>3. Siege : Castles at War, 1999.
>===========================
IMNSHO... amazing!  HOW have these fellas gotten 3, now 4, of their 
"productions" commercially published?

We bought the first furniture book with high expectations, and were 
seriously let down by the contents.  Very briefly (it's so annoying, we 
try not to think about it, the flubbed opportunity!), "the woodworkers 
all scream about the woodworking, the metalworkers all scream about the 
metalworking".  A very flexible definition of "period".  Failure to note 
well-known out-of-period repairs and adaptations to his models (just 
presents the whole thing as period and original).  Etc.  I've seen 
_Siege_ at work (public library) -- it has really pretty pictures, but 
what's in them is pretty iffy.

So, at the least, be prepared with MANY grains of salt!

Chimene the party-poop