A Commonplace Book

Over in the comments at Megan McArdle , Braveheart was suggested as suitable viewing for Libertarian Movie Night. It is to laugh. Da, Gibson...

A friend asks how I find things like 17th century archery rules. Good question. In this case I started with a local Boy Scout troop that wan...

These include Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage , with itemized expenses for the Asteley/Boyle combat of 1442, a French acco...

Hannis, Richard Aime for the Archers of St. George's Fields , London 1664. Excerpted in Urban, Sylvanus, The Gentleman’s Magazine and H...

By Statute of 12 Rich. II., 1388, the practice of archery is again commanded, but it is there combined with a prohibition against the bearin...

The SCA has put out proposed mission and business statements: Mission statement: The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA) is an inte...

In 1480 Richard, Duke of Gloucester received at least one bombard as a gift from Louis XI of France. The bombard was probably an obsolescent...

From Agnolo Gaddi’s Dream of the Emperor Heraclius at Santa Croce (1385-87) Illustrations in the Romance of Alexander (Bodley 264), c. 13...

The Johnes translations of Froissart and Monstrelet are available in digital form at Google books. Johnes did the only complete translatio...

Here is a useful account of the battle of Humbleton or Homildon Hill in 1402, with substantial material from Thomas Walsingham (d. c. 1422)...