Compendium of Common Knowledge book
Hello all,
On behalf of a friend with her permission, I am posting something I think would be of interest to people who do renaissance faires. Please feel free to forward this to other groups or people who would be interested.
For years, The Compendium of Common Knowledge (http://elizabethan.org/compendium/index.html) has been a go-to web site for learning almost all things Elizabethan. Now, Maggie Secara has made this available in a printed edition, perfect for taking it with you when you are at a workshop, a renaissance faire, or those other times you are away from the Internet.
More info can be found here: A Compendium of Common Knowedge 1558-1603
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback.html
The web site will remain available for free for everyone, but I believe there is a value in the printed book as well. Give it a look today, and buy a copy for yourself, for a friend, guild mate, or even a guild copy.
{edit: I forgot to add the pdf press release}
A Renaissance For Everyone
July 26, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA) - Did you know that the first shopping mall was opened in London in 1571? That in 16th century England, gifts were given on New Year’s Day but not on Christmas? That beer could be flavored with anything from pepper to lupins? All this and more can be found in Maggie Secara’s A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 (210 pps, tpb, $19.95)
The Compendium website at Elizabethan.Org has long been the go-to website for authors, students, actors, re-enactors, and Elizabethan enthusiasts of all kinds. Now in paperback from Popinjay Press, anyone can have the Compendium on hand wherever they go!
The Compendium of Common Knowledge, as web fans already know, is a series of snapshots of daily life in the court and countryside of Shakespeare and Good Queen Bess, written for the everyday reader. Painstakingly researched and illustrated from period sources, each page dishes up details about food, work, games, and gossip, as well as the windows, weddings, and beliefs of more than 400 years ago. There’s a detailed index to make it especially easy to use, plus notes on the sources so you can find out more. This new paperback version even features a bonus chapter on persona building that’s perfect for guildmasters and authors both.
What can you do with the Compendium in paperback that you can't do online?
Author Maggie Secara is a technical writer by trade, with a Master's degree from CSU Northridge. She is the editor of other Web publications including the Trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton. She has at various times been a Highland gentlewoman, a Landsknecht campfrau, and the Countess of Southampton, and is currently editing a 1595 household book.
ISBN: 978-0-9818401-0-9
To place an order, contact Popinjay Press http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback.html
PayPal only (account not required)
{and yes, I bought my copy last night}
On behalf of a friend with her permission, I am posting something I think would be of interest to people who do renaissance faires. Please feel free to forward this to other groups or people who would be interested.
For years, The Compendium of Common Knowledge (http://elizabethan.org/compendium/index.html) has been a go-to web site for learning almost all things Elizabethan. Now, Maggie Secara has made this available in a printed edition, perfect for taking it with you when you are at a workshop, a renaissance faire, or those other times you are away from the Internet.
More info can be found here: A Compendium of Common Knowedge 1558-1603
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback.html
The web site will remain available for free for everyone, but I believe there is a value in the printed book as well. Give it a look today, and buy a copy for yourself, for a friend, guild mate, or even a guild copy.
{edit: I forgot to add the pdf press release}
A Renaissance For Everyone
July 26, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA) - Did you know that the first shopping mall was opened in London in 1571? That in 16th century England, gifts were given on New Year’s Day but not on Christmas? That beer could be flavored with anything from pepper to lupins? All this and more can be found in Maggie Secara’s A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 (210 pps, tpb, $19.95)
The Compendium website at Elizabethan.Org has long been the go-to website for authors, students, actors, re-enactors, and Elizabethan enthusiasts of all kinds. Now in paperback from Popinjay Press, anyone can have the Compendium on hand wherever they go!
The Compendium of Common Knowledge, as web fans already know, is a series of snapshots of daily life in the court and countryside of Shakespeare and Good Queen Bess, written for the everyday reader. Painstakingly researched and illustrated from period sources, each page dishes up details about food, work, games, and gossip, as well as the windows, weddings, and beliefs of more than 400 years ago. There’s a detailed index to make it especially easy to use, plus notes on the sources so you can find out more. This new paperback version even features a bonus chapter on persona building that’s perfect for guildmasters and authors both.
What can you do with the Compendium in paperback that you can't do online?
- Make notes in the margins
- Read it in bed
- Take it to workshops
- Stash it in the tourney box
- Write a book report
- Give extra copies as gifts
- And best of all-you can use it even when the computer is down!
Author Maggie Secara is a technical writer by trade, with a Master's degree from CSU Northridge. She is the editor of other Web publications including the Trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton. She has at various times been a Highland gentlewoman, a Landsknecht campfrau, and the Countess of Southampton, and is currently editing a 1595 household book.
ISBN: 978-0-9818401-0-9
To place an order, contact Popinjay Press http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback.html
PayPal only (account not required)
{and yes, I bought my copy last night}