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- From: asgds@acad2.alaska.edu
- Subject: Help! I need a list of books...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.115637.1@acad2.alaska.edu>
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- Organization: University of Alaska
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:56:37 GMT
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- I am trying to find information on the years between 900 and
- 1100 AD. I have two main areas of interest.
- 1. books (etc.) that deal with the artifacts of the times.
- What did every day belongings and objects (clothes, accessories, knives, boxes,
- shoes, carts,sailing ships, houses, etc...) look like and how were they made?
- 2. What was going on at the time; politics, customs, trade,
- etc.
- The reason I am interested in any info you could provide is that I am a
- member of a group called the Society for Creative Anachronism. The SCA as it
- is known is a non-profit educational corporation whose members try to recreate
- the fun and interesting things (the actual generic quote says "Better aspects")
- of the Middle Ages and Renaiscence. In the SCA you make up an SCA name. This
- can just be a name you use, or you can make up what is known as a Persona.
- A persona, is basically a character that you play at being at SCA
- events. I have chosen a "French" man of the 11th century named Charles. For a
- while just knowing his name and the general place he was from was enough, but I
- have reached a point where I would really like to learn as much as I can.
- I hope that explaining my reasons for needing will help those of you
- who are reading in telling me what books (or other research materials) I should
- read and/or buy.
- Yours in history,
- Geoff Stewart
- Known in the SCA as Charles Toutaurien
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