Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history -- comments, resources and discussion.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Mesterinde Karen Larsdatter's site
The Society for Creative Anachronism gets a lot of flak from scholars, some of it quite justified (ask an SCA member!), but in its ranks are a fair number of people who have spent 10, 20 or 30 years researching their particular interest from a re-enactor's or recreator's point of view, and these people sometimes know things no one else does.
Nowadays it's easier for such people to do research and make available the results. One of those people is Mesterinde Karen, who has put together structurally simple but very valuable pages showing representations of medieval objects. Will McLean spotted the ones showing tournament galleries and the barriers or fences that marked off listfields, and alerted me through his blog. But larsdatter.com seems to have much more. And it's searchable.
Image: Lancelot and Gawain as imagined in the early 15th century.
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Wow ... I'm very flattered ... thanks for your kind words! :)
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