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I *heart* you. I have a class I haven't yet had a chance to teach: "Swash, Swash, Buckle, Buckle: The Well Dress'd Elizabethan Sailor." It focuses on clothing as presented in paintings and sketches of an assortment of men from Martin Frobisher to Sir Walter Raleigh to the common seaman.
Wish we were closer together-- this could make a hell of an event theme.
I would totally go to any class called "swash swash buckle buckle" though if I did I think I would be expecting swordings....though that may be due to a stage combat skit I did now that I think about it...
purely out of curiosity what is your opinion of Patrick O'Brien and the Master and Commander stuff.. I think that is later, but it does include a fair amount of pirates.. and how do the new world pirates/privateers like our good friend John Paul Jones fit into this picture?
Well, I'm talking about the period 1500-1625ish, so JPJ is way out of the picture and Master & Commander even further out. However, I love O'Brian's work - it's the most accurate depiction of period life at sea I've ever seen in maritime fiction.
Re: I really love the Aubrey-Maturin books..hakerhNovember 8 2006, 21:42:46 UTC
The "Golden Age" is usually considered circa 1690-1730, though these dates are really soft. Piracy's always been going on, but "piracy" as we think of it really got started in the English vs Spanish raids of the 1500s, when English raiders did their best to harass the treasure fleets coming home from Spanish colonies. Colonial governors in the Caribbean often used hired privateers to supplement their navies as the 17th century ended. Piracy really started to get cracked down on as the British imperial powers solidified their act in traditionally lawless waters in the Americas. It's still around today, though, mostly in waters that have become lawless again such as the African coast, China Sea and Indian Ocean, and parts of the Caribbean.
I'd totally be all over that class. Heck, i'd do research and help you teach it! i have an "obnoxious" pirate persona that's currently totally out of whack with what's period, but that's mostly because of garb price limitations.
"Price limitations" - do you purchase your kit or sew your own?
And while I may rant about the fake pirates, I place a *huge* difference between the folks who actually know their stuff but don't show it and the folks who haven't a clue and couldn't care less, 'cause hey man, they're PIRATES! You've been to sea. I'll automatically cut you slack. :)
Most of what i've accumulated are Salvation Army and Goodwill finds. I've sewn a few things for myself, the newest (and my favorite at the moment) is a Viking tunic dress. ^_^ But my sewing machine is spaztic and i usually end up swearing at it more than getting anything done, and nice fabric is spendy when you have to drive an hour to the nearest Joann's and are a well endowed woman with Huge Tracts of Land. i was seriously drooling over that wool sale you posted a while back...
i'm a privateer (we have a letter of Marque from the English crown) partly because sailing is something i know and partly because i can wear clothes from anywhere we've sailed to. *eg*
I'd be glad to see you. Seriously, you seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. Are you feeling any better? I heard you've got the Death-Plague, too, or at least another variant of it.
Considering I seem to be someone you are sick of... Er... my "interests", I'll try not to take that personally... Er... I mean, sure I'd go! ;-) I applaud your efforts in actually DOING something to "fix" things that bother you. Be honest though, I'm betting your average "Fake pseudo pirate" knows at LEAST as much seamanship as your average "Fake pseudo Viking". (Viking was the term for those who went raiding, Norse was the culture. Vikings were sailors too, some would say the penultimate pirates actually.) Perhaps you could open it up to the Viking personas as well? I should point out however that not everyone on board a ship was required to know seamanship, some of us were say... musicians, or doctors... Though you might be suprised what skills we might have picked up. (Ruadh... what are you doing with that rope...) Maybe go over the Holy Pirates of Malta (Confiscate a Cargo for Crist!) and their opponents the Barbary Corsairs (Ram a ship for Allah!)? I mean there's a really good period example of piracy. Is the
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I don't even know where to begin on this one, so let me just start by saying I love you in the most platonic way possible. :)
This class is designed towards Late Period English maritime personas, since it's both what I know best and it's the current pop-culture flavor of pirate.
Haha, and while I acknowledge your irrational hatred of Screech (even if your description of it *did* make me laugh so hard I dropped my coffee), I'll admit even I still like my rum. Hey, I said I was just going to offer *alternatives* to non-period practice, not that I was going to enforce them. ;)
Re: knots... I'm not touching that. What you do in your own tent is your own business. Though I bet I know a few knots that would make even *you* blink... ;)
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Wish we were closer together-- this could make a hell of an event theme.
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what is the general time scale for piracy? in terms of a general begining, heyday, decline... ?
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And while I may rant about the fake pirates, I place a *huge* difference between the folks who actually know their stuff but don't show it and the folks who haven't a clue and couldn't care less, 'cause hey man, they're PIRATES! You've been to sea. I'll automatically cut you slack. :)
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i'm a privateer (we have a letter of Marque from the English crown) partly because sailing is something i know and partly because i can wear clothes from anywhere we've sailed to. *eg*
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This class is designed towards Late Period English maritime personas, since it's both what I know best and it's the current pop-culture flavor of pirate.
Haha, and while I acknowledge your irrational hatred of Screech (even if your description of it *did* make me laugh so hard I dropped my coffee), I'll admit even I still like my rum. Hey, I said I was just going to offer *alternatives* to non-period practice, not that I was going to enforce them. ;)
Re: knots... I'm not touching that. What you do in your own tent is your own business. Though I bet I know a few knots that would make even *you* blink... ;)
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