From hedewigis at gmail.com Tue Feb 1 13:08:22 2011 From: hedewigis at gmail.com (L Brizendine) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 13:08:22 -0500 Subject: [Populace] 2011 Officer Elections Ballot Message-ID: Greetings! The 2011 Shire of Caer Officer Elections Ballot follows. It will be available in the coming days on the Caer Adamant Yahoo! Groups list, as well as on the website. Please note that you do not have to print this out if you will be attending the business meeting on 16 February 2011 at the Dover Public Library. Paper copies will be on hand for the elections. Printing your own is only required if you will not be attending the meeting. Please join me in thanking all of our officers, past, present, and future, for their time and efforts on behalf of our Shire. We are fortunate. In service, ~ Hedewigis. ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ * * *Shire of Caer Adamant* *Officer Elections ? February 2011* * * Please select one for each office. *Chronicler* ____ Alexi Gensel (Adam J. Gensel) ____ None of the above *Exchequer* ____ Lord Mikael "Kael" McCue (Michael Macchione) ____ None of the above *Herald* ____ Shoshana Gryffyth (Ellen Weiner) ____ None of the above *Knight Marshal* ____ Lord Kieran (called Krey) MacLeod (William Wright III) ____ Lord Mark von der Oesten (Mark Schrader) ____ None of the above * * *Minister of Arts and Sciences* ____ Mistress Margaret Hepburn of Ardrossan (Julie M. Stackable) ____ None of the above *For absentee ballots only*: Legibly print legal name: ____________________________________________ Legal signature: ___________________________________________________ Attach proof of residence (waived for minors residing with parent) and proof of current membership in the SCA, Inc. Arrange for ballot to be hand-delivered to the meeting, or mail to: Linda O. Brizendine 1604 Old Wilmington Road, Hockessin, DE 19707-9231 Mailed ballot MUST arrive by Tuesday 15 February 2011. I am unable to collect mail after Tuesday evening. ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ -- Linda O. Brizendine Hedewigis Ockenf??in Quod Latine dicitur altius videtur. Respect, kindness, consideration, honesty. ~ Emily Post. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hedewigis at gmail.com Sat Feb 12 05:04:16 2011 From: hedewigis at gmail.com (L Brizendine) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:04:16 -0500 Subject: [Populace] A&S Rescheduled and some other stuff Message-ID: Good morning! Due to several regular attendees wishing to spend St. Valentine's Day with loved ones (other than us), A&S Night is being pushed a week to Monday 21 February. Topic will either be Duct-Tape Dummies (body doubles) or Fake Hair. Two reminders about elections: 1) Candidates who wish to make a statement need to have it to me by Sunday evening, and 2) absentee ballots must be received by me by Tuesday evening. The ballot is available in the "Files" section of the Yahoo group, and the text was also sent to the Populace list. In service, ~ Hedewigis. -- Linda O. Brizendine Hedewigis Ockenf??in Quod Latine dicitur altius videtur. Respect, kindness, consideration, honesty. ~ Emily Post. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hedewigis at gmail.com Mon Feb 14 19:56:44 2011 From: hedewigis at gmail.com (L Brizendine) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:56:44 -0500 Subject: [Populace] Officer Candidate Statements Message-ID: *Unto the Populace of the Shire of Caer Adamant, greetings!* * * As has become our tradition, what follows are unedited statements of intent and/or qualifications from some of the candidates for officer positions in the upcoming Shire of Caer Adamant elections. * * *~ + ~ + ~ + ~ * *Chronicler* *From Alexi Von Gensel* Members of the Shire, I will admit that for a long time I judged the SCA as if a book by its cover. Poor experiences and involvement with the wrong crowds lead to an opinion that was less than savory. That all changed in attending my first A&S night now two and a half years ago. It was a preparation meeting for what to expect and review what information had been released about the upcoming Pennsic 38. This fortuitous meeting and the week at Pennsic that soon followed served to change my opinion of the SCA. I now find myself wanting to delve deeper into the organization. I hope that running for the position of Chronicler will be a small step into a wider world This will be the first time that I have run for office within the Shire or within the Society as a whole. The position of Chronicler will give me a unique perspective that I have not done in the past. A role as a scribe to help temper my tendency towards the martial aspects of the Society. I feel my past involvement with other organizations and my background in political science will have prepared me to be equal to the task. Sincerely, Alexi Von Gensel aka Adam J. Gensel ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ *Exchequer* *From Lord Kael McCue* Hello everyone, Having been an active shire member for 18 years, having been its exchequer for about 5 or 6 of those, having held several other offices as well; and having been and currently am a regional exchequer; I believe I understand how this group works and what it takes to be its exchequer. I look forward to serving the group for another term and hope that you will all allow me to do so. Mikael "Kael" McCue *Herald* *From Shoshana Gryffyth * I had been involved in many different subcultures before finding the SCA. First was the gateway drug, D&D, and then came LARPing and Anime. This all led to a few brief visits to the local Arts and Science night in my late teens. They were much different back then, and I drifted away for some time. After a few years I looked to become more active again in the local Society groups. Dressing up for the Renfaire in Maryland and PA just was not giving me all the in-depth history exposure that I really wanted to find. It?s not hard to see why lovers of history would also fall in love with the Society. The community and friendship found around every ?bend and pale? (forgive me) give us all a place to feel comfortable and explore a multitude of fascinating topics. Heraldry has often captured my attention, and the urge to ?sing a rainbow? in Tincture, or point out the Ermine on the Slytherin plush pillow has most recently gotten me a few laughs and strange looks from my friends. So at this point I would like to learn and grow as a Herald for the Shire. I am currently a member of Toastmasters, and enjoy the opportunity to speak before others. I am interested in the artistic aspects of drawing up a blazoned device, and look forward to researching names and places for all our members. I have grand plans to help anyone interested in painting their shields or silk banners in the next few years, and to help display them at events and demos. Most of all I am looking forward to the fun wordplay and wit of my fellow Heraldic enthusiasts. In closing, I hope you will consider me for the position of Herald, I am eager for the challenge! In Service, Shoshana Gryffyth * * *~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~* *Knight Marshal* *From Lord Krey MacLeod* *Greetings, * *I am Lord Krey MacLeod. and I am running for the position of knight marshal for the shire of Caer Adamant. I have been in the shire since about 1995. I have previously held the positions of castellan, deputy knight marshal and then knight marshal on two separate occasions. I bring nearly 16 years of experience into the position. I have been fighting for about 16 years and training fighters for about 15 years. My primary concern will be to have a safe environment for our fighters to practice regularly, to raise our numbers, to assist the new and incoming fighters with getting their gear together and to fulfill a idea that I had started to build last fall of a shire fighting unit to take the field at Pennsic. If elected, I will serve the shire as I always have: with honor, integrity and to the best of my ability. As always, I remain...* *Yours in Service and Friendship,* *Lord Kieran MacLeod called Krey* *Knight marshal candidate* *Shire of Caer Adamant* *East** Kingdom* * * *Knight Marshal* *From Lord Mark von der Oesten* Greetings to the Populous of the Shire of Caer Adamant, My name is Mark von der Oesten. I am currently the acting Knight Marshal of the Shire. I would like to be considered as a candidate for the position in the upcoming election. My only desire is for the fighters of Caer Adamant to grow in numbers and as individuals. Win or lose, I will do my best to accomplish just that. Thank you for your time. Lord Mark von der Oesten. aka Mark Vier * * *~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~* *Minister of Arts and Sciences* *From Mistress Margaret Hepburn of Ardrossan* Unto the Shire of Caer Adament do I sent warmest greetings... Please allow me to present a little information about myself and my qualifications to serve the Shire as Minister of Arts and Sciences. I have been a member of the Society since 1988. As my husband is in the military, we are now currently residing in our 5th Kingdom. We started in Ansteorra and since 1995 have resided in Caid, Drachenwald, the Outlands, Caid again and now the East. In that time, I have held nearly every local office, as well as holding Baronial and Kingdom office. I have held every office at one time or another in the past 22 years except for Seneschal and Marshal! I was Kingdom Minister of Arts and Sciences for the Kingdom of the Outlands from April of 2002 until April of 2004 and during my tenure of office I helped streamline and update the way Kingdom A&S Competitions were held as well as encouraging more of the populace to participate in Arts and Sciences displays. Because of my experience in academic as well as historical research, I would love to help those Shire members who are interested raise the level on their projects, be they Art and Science or even martially related. I really look forward to helping those Shire members who would like to enter SCA A&S competitions lose any 'fear' and gain skill at documenting projects. The internet is a vast resource for re-creation and re-enactment. Tons of out of print books have been digitized and are available in many online libraries as well as thousands of pictures of extant artefacts as more and more museums are putting their collections on line. I have had great success using such online primary and secondary resources for documentation and research on a vast array of projects. However, there is just as much, in not more, BAD information out there as good, and I'd like to help those who are interested learn how to tell the difference and benefit from the good online resources that are out there. I also truly enjoy the pageantry that heraldry bring to the SCA and I would like to encourage those who have registered heraldry to display their heraldry, in any of the many many ways it can be displayed and I am happy to help anyone who is interested. As to my SCA interests - Margaret Hepburn of Ardrossan is a Lowland Scot residing in the Southwest of Scotland in the 1570's and as such, my lord husband and I have attempted to tailor our research and re-enactment to this era and culture. I was elevated to the Order of the Laurel in the Kingdom of the Outlands in 2005. My stated specialties are costuming, research and household arts. * * * * -- Linda O. Brizendine Hedewigis Ockenf??in Quod Latine dicitur altius videtur. Respect, kindness, consideration, honesty. ~ Emily Post. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From malvoisine at yahoo.com Wed Feb 16 17:29:09 2011 From: malvoisine at yahoo.com (Julie Stackable) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:29:09 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Populace] A&S Display and People's Choice Competition at McLeod's Tavern Message-ID: <111118.50151.qm@web32404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Greetings everyone! I will be sponsoring both an A&S Display and a People's Choice A&S Competition at the upcoming McLeod's Tavern even on March 12th in Newark, DE (see http://www.eastkingdom.org/EventDetails.html?eid3D2048 for event information) All artisans are encouraged to bring out their works, either for display or to enter the competition. Documentation is not required, but is highly encouraged. Even unfinished works are welcome in the display, so you can show off what you are working on and share your knowledge and hard work with others. The event theme is both Scottish AND Cookery, so of course everyone is encouraged to enter something in the competition along those lines, but all entries are welcomed. Again, I would really like to encourage everyone to include some documentation with their projects. If documenting your projects is something you've shied away from in the past, now would be an excellent time to get more comfortable with it in a very laid back atmosphere. I have included some links below to several websites with tips on documenting A&S projects and have highlighted one or two that I especially recommend. If anyone has any questions or would like some help writing documentation for a display or entry, please don't hesitate to contact me (my contact information is at the bottom). Note cards will be provided for both the display and competition - even if you don't have formal documentation, please come prepared to at least provide some basic information such as what the object is, what materials and methods were used and what time period/culture it represents. List of links for research: http://www.modaruniversity.org/Research.htm This page has about twenty articles. Two I especially recommend: http://web.archive.org/web/20041019042457/home.pcisys.net/~lyssa/document.html http://www.larsdatter.com/documentation.htm Another excellent website to help you document a plethora of things is Mistress Karen Larsdatter's website Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture. This is a huge collection of both artwork and examples of extant artifacts. It is an excellent starting point for documenting just about anything you can think of, neatly divided into many sub-categories. http://www.larsdatter.com/ Again, if anyone has any questions or would like some assistance, please don't hesitate to ask. I can be reached at this email address or please feel free to contact me at 702.493.5675, no calls after 10pm please. Margaret Hepburn, Minister of Arts & Sciences From hedewigis at gmail.com Fri Feb 18 06:18:51 2011 From: hedewigis at gmail.com (L Brizendine) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:18:51 -0500 Subject: [Populace] Election Results Message-ID: Unto the Shire of Caer Adamant, greetings! Elections were held at the February business meeting. Pending approval/warranting by the respective Kingdom Officers, we offer congratulations to: *Chronicler*: Alexi Gensel (Adam J. Gensel); *Exchequer*: Lord Mikael "Kael" McCue (Michael Macchione); *Herald*: Shoshana Gryffyth (Ellen Weiner); *Knights' Marshal*: Lord Mark von der Oesten (Mark Schrader); *Minister of Arts and Scinces*: Mistress Margaret Hepburn of Ardrossan (Julie M. Stackable) As is our custom, the turnover of officers was bloodless. Please join me in thanking our outgoing officers -- Lord Alexander, Lady Amari and Mistress Sarra -- for their service on behalf of our Shire. Thank yous are also in order to Lord Kael for his continued service as our Exchequer. Volunteers are so critical to our on-going success. Please know that you are appreciated! In service, ~ Hedewigis. -- Linda O. Brizendine Hedewigis Ockenf??in Quod Latine dicitur altius videtur. Respect, kindness, consideration, honesty. ~ Emily Post. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From malvoisine at yahoo.com Mon Feb 21 16:28:24 2011 From: malvoisine at yahoo.com (Julie Stackable) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:28:24 -0000 Subject: [Populace] Online resource Article In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <304469.1529.qm@web32404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> The following is an article from the Serpent's Tongue, the newsletter for the Barony of Calafia in the Kingdom of Caid, I thought it might be of interest... ____________________________________________________________ ? Digital Repositories: New Doors to the Realm of Research If you're like most SCA researchers and artisans, you probably have first-hand knowledge of how difficult it can be to access research materials. Bookstores and public libraries may have overview works on medieval topics, but they often don't carry specialized works containing the in-depth information you need. While university libraries may have the type of material you're looking for, they usually require you to come onto campus to use that material; if you don't work or study there, you probably cannot check out books or access their online resources from home. Searches for information may lead you to tantalizingly pertinent material that you cannot access (an article appearing in a specialty journal to which your nearest university library does not subscribe) or cannot afford (an incredibly expensive book available from an online bookseller but not available in any nearby library). Fortunately, this frustrating scenario is beginning to change. Increasingly, universities are creating "digital repositories" - online archives that make scholarly information available to the public electronically and at no charge. These digital repositories offer you a way to access a broad (and broadening) array of journals articles, theses, etc. - for free and from home. So how do you locate, access and search through the information contained in these repositories? One good place to start is OpenDOAR (www.opendoar.org). OpenDOAR, which is operated by the United Kingdom's University of Nottingham, is not itself a repository. Instead, it is a searchable "directory of digital repositories" that allows you to quickly and easily search the contents of almost 2,000 different digital repositories on six continents - including those of those of Oxford, Cambridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Trinity College, Dublin, to name but a few. According to its home page, "OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories." A quick OpenDOAR search on the phrase "Saxon shields," for instance, turns up several interesting articles, including "Symbols of Protection: The Significance of Animal-ornamented Shields in Early Anglo-Saxon England" and "Anglo-Saxon Laminated Shields at Petersfinger - A Myth." Other quick searches on simple word-combinations and phrases yield the following, all in full-text form: * "The Medieval Pagent Wagons at York: Their Orientation and Height" (Early Theatre, 2000) * "Dietetics in Medieval Islamic Culture" (Medical History, 1999) * "The Medieval English Begging Poem" (Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008) * "The Syntaxis Armatorum Quadrata: A Tenth-Century Tactical Blueprint" (Revue des Etudes Byzantines, 1992) * "The Big Problem of the Petty Coins, And How it Could be Solved in the Late Middle Ages" (working paper from the London School of Economics, 2008) Of course, this is not to say that OpenDOAR should be your only avenue for research into the Middle Ages. Like any other research tool, it has its limitations as well as its benefits. Below is a short listing of OpenDOAR's pros and cons. Advantages: * You don't need to know which repository contains an item of interest to you, nor do you need to search each repository separately. * You can access articles in specialized journals that may not be available at nearby libraries (even academic libraries). * You can access masters' theses and Ph.D. dissertations, working papers and other documents that may not have been published in journals - items that are sometimes difficult to obtain through other means. * You can target your searches to some extent by using adding quotes and using phrase searches (for instance, "Saxon shields" or "pageant wagons"). Disadvantages: * It's not possible to search by subject using OpenDOAR. Instead, the search engine looks for keywords - a much less targeted type of search. In practice, this means that you may get many articles that aren't pertinent, just because they happen to contain words you've specified in your search string. For instance, "Viking" will retrieve articles about medieval Scandinavia, but also articles on scientific findings from Mars missions. * Some of the results you retrieve will not include the full text of the article or other document. * The search algorithm does not always connect British and American spellings. For instance, if you're looking for articles on armor, you may need to run two separate searches - one using "armor" and one using "armour." * The link to a PDF version of the articles is not always obvious. (However, if there is a "See Other Formats" button, this will usually lead you to a PDF link.) * The source of a given article is not always clear; this can pose significant problems for citing your sources in documentation or in footnotes. * There is currently no way to limit your search by language, so you may turn up articles in French, German, etc. * Similarly, there is no easy way to limit your search to works published in a specific journal. (For instance, if you want to find works on medieval poetry published in the journal Comitatus, you can add "comitatus" to "medieval poetry," but you will get some results that simply have the word "comitatus" in the text.) One additional option, of course, is to search the individual repositories directly. This approach has at least one significant advantage; most repositories are set up to allow subject searching (as opposed to OpenDOAR, which allows only keyword searching). However, there are disadvantages as well. Because the digital-repository movement is still in its infancy, repositories are not standardized in terms of their content or their format. The way you search for items may vary from repository to repository. Some universities and other institutions have repositories; some do not. Some institutions include only certain types of content - technical reports or policy papers, for instance. Still, it may be worth your while to check individual repositories. Here again, OpenDOAR proves helpful. For one thing, it provides links to all of the repositories it lists. More importantly, it allows you to search for repositories by country, by language, and by subject area. (For instance, of the nearly 2,000 repositories listed in OpenDOAR, only 15 focus specifically on architecture). The digital-repository movement may not (or at least not yet) provide a comprehensive solution to all your research conundrums. However, it has much to offer the SCA researcher, and I encourage you to explore this exciting new path to the pursuit of knowledge. Fionnabhair Kyriath Inghean ui Neill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: