Sunday, October 31, 2010

A 15th Century Targe at the Met

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Wood, leather, gesso, silver foil, polychrome. Probably Austrian, early 15th century. The knot of a cord to support the shield is visible o...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Awesome DIY Halloween Costumes

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From the DIY Halloween costume thread at Boing Boing: Jawa AT-ST walker , perfect for chasing your younger siblings in their Ewok s...
Monday, October 25, 2010

On St. Crispin's Day

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My favorite post on the battle of Agincourt from 2007, with added links to my other posts on the subject.
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Bread: The Practical Applications. Part 1: Buying from a Baker

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Suppose you wish to find the legal price of bread at a particular date in medieval England. Below I have converted the Assize of Bread regu...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Afterlife. Well Spent.

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Sears reaches out to the underserved unliving demographic.

Mmmm. Tentacles.

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The beautiful and strange Cirrate Octopus This lovely orange Cirrate octopus appears to be the long-lost love child of a sock puppet a...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Separate Hose, Full Length in Back

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This illumination by Fouquet shows some useful details on the figure on the far left, including the location of the seam. Only one of the t...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Harrison on Bread

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Of bread made of wheat we have sundry sorts daily brought to the table, whereof the first and most excellent is the manchet, which we common...
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Value Added in Making Medieval Bread

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A.d. 1497 (12 Henry VII) As the Book of Assize declareth, when the best wheat was sold at 7s., the second at 6s. 6d., and the third at 6s. t...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Making Bread: an Error in The Great Household

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The Assize of Bread, a complicated system of regulated English bread prices, begun by Henry III in the 13th c., lasted into the 19th, by whi...