A Commonplace Book

Elizabeth Ives writes : I’ve been holding my class at the Design Center of Philadelphia University this semester. This is the fashion and t...

I've opened another CafePress shop, Commonplace Advenures. . This one features art related to fantasy role playing games. Most is from t...

Daily Life in Chaucer’s England 2nd edition 2009 Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-Century Natural History Exchange 2008 Deeds of Arms;...

Photos of reenactors, often excellent. Daily .

Locating eyelets at the right height on full length hose can be a tricky problem. Until the hose is suspended from the doublet it's diff...

Through the generosity of Doug Strong, Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship , In Service of the Duke , and De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi...

Having recently made my eyes bleed reading a particularly bad modern example of faux-medieval typography, I turned for relief to an actual e...

Absolute Write Solely Fictional , including a poem on the Matter of Brian. Be forewarned that it rhymes "stolen" with "golem...

...in Sweden and Germany Google Translate has probably missed some nuance in the report on the German site of an "incredible robber pi...

A man who looks a lot like Philip IV signs autographs beside his Valesquez portrait. Joy.