SCAdian resume
[EDITED to stay current.]
In sorting myself out for this upcoming Northern Lights, I realised I was getting set up to enter categories I'm no longer eligible to enter. I guess I've been in the Society long enough that some things are starting to blend together. I can't remember *all* the classes I've taught, though I know it's more than three. I'm trying to put together a "SCAdian resume" to keep track of these things, since I've got a memory like an elephant what's lost its memory. :)
If you can think of something I've left out (especially classes I've offered in the past!) please let me know. Now I've got to dig through and find pictures of my old projects - at least the ones I still possess or have access to.
Persona-wise, I'm currently tweaking and updating "myself" to reflect more precision in both time period and place, and trying to reconcile that with SCAdian geography, but those issues are fodder enough for other posts! The basics are this: I study the 16th century, rarely ranging before the 1530s and occasionally wandering as far out as 1610. I am English, though I have knowledge of Germany and the Low Countries due to a (persona and real-life) ex who set his persona in that area. The Strangewayes family is historically based out of Manchester as early as the 1300s, though I am not certain if that's the town I want to set myself in. I am considering setting up an alternate male persona to reflect my maritime studies, as I strongly dislike the SCAbomination of women "pyrates" who neither make any attempt to disguise their gender nor admit that any seafaring non-passenger women never did so openly as women, at least in the European traditions (with the exceptions of outliers such as Grace O'Malley / Gráinne Ní Mháille, and even then I have yet to find a reputable source proving she personally commanded any ship.)
Joined the SCA in 2001. Assisted Lady Marielle de Chalon in founding the UNH Medieval and Renaissance Club (later to become the Incipient College of St Cuthbert), where I served alternately as Vice President or Minister of Arts & Sciences for the next six years.
Got my AoA in 2005 at Northern Lights 14 for my work with the College, as well as my research in period maritime navigational equipment. That was my first A&S competition as well. I submitted a research paper on piracy and privateering, a blackworked herbal pillow, Excellent Small Cakes (from Digby), and a reproduction quadrant (navigational instrument). I didn't win anything that year, though.
Was made a companion of the Maunche, GNEW 2007.
I won three categories at Northern Lights 15: Herbalism and Period Science, with a " Powder for the Cough," and Metalwork for a floating brass plate Period Compass. I also submitted a Medicine for an Ague.
I won the Research Paper category at Northern Lights 16 with my article "Desirous to See the Strange Things of the World": The Curious Voyage of M. Hore. This paper explored the 1536 voyage of Richard Hore to Newfoundland, which is a fascinating story both for the myth - cannibalism, shipwreck, piracy - and the actuality: Admiralty court intrigue, nationalistic propaganda, and 16th century concepts of "civilized" behavior. Other entries that year included the first draft of my period drinking chocolate and a rendition of Ravenscroft's 1611 song "I Have House and Land in Kent," done in the appropriate accent.
Ongoing Major Research:
- Chocolate consumption in period
- Late period maritime life, technology, and material culture. Currently I am focusing on fishermen and fishing technology.
- English colonial and entrepreneurial efforts in the New World (yes, this is solidly period by even the most rigid definition of the SCA's end date, and it was quite profitable. There were English fishing vessels returning from Newfoundland as early as 1502, when the Gabriel of Bristol sold its thirty-six tons of fish for £180 in a time period when an English household servant could expect to make £2-5 in a year.)
- The absorption of New World foodstuffs into Old World foodways
- 16th century English and German costuming, especially funky hats and ruffs.
I autocratted the College's Old Hampshire Faire event for three years, and co-autocratted it once. I served as the A&S coordinator for Harper's this past fall (2007) and will be a judge for the research paper category at this coming Northern Lights. My household and I have made a point of offering our services as security and gophers at Birka for at least the last three years.
Classes I have taught:
Late Period English Rounds
Period Sea Chanteys & How to Tell Them Apart
So You Wanna Be a Pirate, or Late Period Maritime Technology
The Making and Drinking of Chocolate (in two parts)
Projects of which I'm proud:
The compass
A quadrant
A sounding lead (Some of my information is here, but I haven't posted any pictures of my reproduction yet.)
My early 16th century German Dress
An embroidered schaube
My big Elizabethan ruffs and Tudor hats, especially the Gable hoods.
Mundanely, I spent a summer as an intern at Plimoth Plantation, where I did research in their collection of 16th & early 17th century maritime prints. There were about thirty of them, and they were largely Dutch in origin. It was my job to translate and identify this collection. I'm really pleased that I was able to identify the subject matter of all of them, and in many cases I could even track down the original book titles and page numbers from which the woodcuts were torn out.
Does anybody remember anything I'm leaving out?
In sorting myself out for this upcoming Northern Lights, I realised I was getting set up to enter categories I'm no longer eligible to enter. I guess I've been in the Society long enough that some things are starting to blend together. I can't remember *all* the classes I've taught, though I know it's more than three. I'm trying to put together a "SCAdian resume" to keep track of these things, since I've got a memory like an elephant what's lost its memory. :)
If you can think of something I've left out (especially classes I've offered in the past!) please let me know. Now I've got to dig through and find pictures of my old projects - at least the ones I still possess or have access to.
Persona-wise, I'm currently tweaking and updating "myself" to reflect more precision in both time period and place, and trying to reconcile that with SCAdian geography, but those issues are fodder enough for other posts! The basics are this: I study the 16th century, rarely ranging before the 1530s and occasionally wandering as far out as 1610. I am English, though I have knowledge of Germany and the Low Countries due to a (persona and real-life) ex who set his persona in that area. The Strangewayes family is historically based out of Manchester as early as the 1300s, though I am not certain if that's the town I want to set myself in. I am considering setting up an alternate male persona to reflect my maritime studies, as I strongly dislike the SCAbomination of women "pyrates" who neither make any attempt to disguise their gender nor admit that any seafaring non-passenger women never did so openly as women, at least in the European traditions (with the exceptions of outliers such as Grace O'Malley / Gráinne Ní Mháille, and even then I have yet to find a reputable source proving she personally commanded any ship.)
Joined the SCA in 2001. Assisted Lady Marielle de Chalon in founding the UNH Medieval and Renaissance Club (later to become the Incipient College of St Cuthbert), where I served alternately as Vice President or Minister of Arts & Sciences for the next six years.
Got my AoA in 2005 at Northern Lights 14 for my work with the College, as well as my research in period maritime navigational equipment. That was my first A&S competition as well. I submitted a research paper on piracy and privateering, a blackworked herbal pillow, Excellent Small Cakes (from Digby), and a reproduction quadrant (navigational instrument). I didn't win anything that year, though.
Was made a companion of the Maunche, GNEW 2007.
I won three categories at Northern Lights 15: Herbalism and Period Science, with a " Powder for the Cough," and Metalwork for a floating brass plate Period Compass. I also submitted a Medicine for an Ague.
I won the Research Paper category at Northern Lights 16 with my article "Desirous to See the Strange Things of the World": The Curious Voyage of M. Hore. This paper explored the 1536 voyage of Richard Hore to Newfoundland, which is a fascinating story both for the myth - cannibalism, shipwreck, piracy - and the actuality: Admiralty court intrigue, nationalistic propaganda, and 16th century concepts of "civilized" behavior. Other entries that year included the first draft of my period drinking chocolate and a rendition of Ravenscroft's 1611 song "I Have House and Land in Kent," done in the appropriate accent.
Ongoing Major Research:
- Chocolate consumption in period
- Late period maritime life, technology, and material culture. Currently I am focusing on fishermen and fishing technology.
- English colonial and entrepreneurial efforts in the New World (yes, this is solidly period by even the most rigid definition of the SCA's end date, and it was quite profitable. There were English fishing vessels returning from Newfoundland as early as 1502, when the Gabriel of Bristol sold its thirty-six tons of fish for £180 in a time period when an English household servant could expect to make £2-5 in a year.)
- The absorption of New World foodstuffs into Old World foodways
- 16th century English and German costuming, especially funky hats and ruffs.
I autocratted the College's Old Hampshire Faire event for three years, and co-autocratted it once. I served as the A&S coordinator for Harper's this past fall (2007) and will be a judge for the research paper category at this coming Northern Lights. My household and I have made a point of offering our services as security and gophers at Birka for at least the last three years.
Classes I have taught:
Late Period English Rounds
Period Sea Chanteys & How to Tell Them Apart
So You Wanna Be a Pirate, or Late Period Maritime Technology
The Making and Drinking of Chocolate (in two parts)
Projects of which I'm proud:
The compass
A quadrant
A sounding lead (Some of my information is here, but I haven't posted any pictures of my reproduction yet.)
My early 16th century German Dress
An embroidered schaube
My big Elizabethan ruffs and Tudor hats, especially the Gable hoods.
Mundanely, I spent a summer as an intern at Plimoth Plantation, where I did research in their collection of 16th & early 17th century maritime prints. There were about thirty of them, and they were largely Dutch in origin. It was my job to translate and identify this collection. I'm really pleased that I was able to identify the subject matter of all of them, and in many cases I could even track down the original book titles and page numbers from which the woodcuts were torn out.
Does anybody remember anything I'm leaving out?