Activities through 9-26-21

Your scribe felt seriously not well all the tail end of the week. That’s why this is late and content-light. Not an excuse, just why. I’ll do better next week!

Project Day is now open for in-person meet-ups as well as in the Virtual Realm! Potluck this month will be Virtual and Real-World! Herbs Workshop and Sewing Workshop are in person. Masks required All other meetings are on hold for the moment.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 7pm-9pmSewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Virtual Potluck – 10/17, 11/21, 12/19, 1/16
Winter Feast LVI, Norse Theme. Page here – https://housecapuchin.com/winter-feast/winter-feast-norse-feast-as-lvi-february-2022/ More pages coming!

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here: https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and new one here: https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Misc – Kingdom of An Tir – SCA

Greetings An Tir,‎

Today the Society released the policy regarding requiring proof of vaccination or testing ‎within a 72 hour period for attendance to any activity sponsored by the SCA. ‎We WILL be applying this policy in An Tir. This implementation will occur in phases, and ‎you can expect updates regarding this requirement.‎ As some of you know, the Principality of Tir Righ already has a requirement for proof of ‎vaccination for attendance to any indoor event, and that has been implemented for Fall Crown. ‎King County, Washington has also followed suit and it will be in place for 12th night. ‎‎ ‎Please read and become familiar with this policy. This will be in place for every SCA ‎activity including, but not limited to, Fighter Practices, Indoor Events, Arts and Sciences night, ‎and Business meetings. ‎As always, please email me directly at seneschal@antir.org if you have any further ‎comments or questions.‎ Attia Prima, OPKingdom Seneschal, An Tir

Edited to Add the Copy of the Policy: Proof of fully vaccinated status or negative COVID test.

In addition to the existing policy allowing Kingdoms to establish a mask policy, Kingdom Seneschals in ‎consultation with the Crown shall have the discretion to implement the following policy requiring proof ‎of COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of an event start time from all ‎event attendees:‎‎

1.‎ Events are any activities defined in Corpora II.A, Society Events Defined.

‎‎2.‎ Proof of being fully vaccinated must be in form of a government issued card (original or ‎photograph) or an electronic record.‎‎

3.‎ Proof of negative covid test must be issued from a licensed medical provider and presented in ‎such paper form or electronic form that the event staff can verify its authenticity. Letterhead from ‎a medical provider or an email address clearly identifying the medical provider as the sender of an ‎electronic record shall constitute authentic proof. ‎‎

4.‎ All persons over the age of 18 must present government issued photo identification along with the ‎proof of being fully vaccinated or a negative COVID test. Parents and guardians of minors must ‎present their own identification along with proof of being fully vaccinated or a negative COVID ‎test for all minors attending an event in their care.

‎‎5.‎ Proof of vaccine or a negative test shall not be required for children under 12. Children that are ‎aged 3 through 11 shall wear a mask.‎‎

6.‎ In addition to the normal sanctions process, anyone challenging event staff regarding the ‎enforcement of this COVID policy shall be denied entry to or be immediately removed from the ‎event.‎‎

7.‎ The Kingdom must have one person at a time checking the proof of being fully vaccinated or a ‎negative COVID test at an event. The event organizer, or their designee, shall maintain a list of ‎names and times of the person(s) conducting the check at the entrance. Once the entrance is ‎closed at the event, said person(s) will sign a statement at the bottom of the list of names and ‎times, which reads: ‎‎“I have monitored the event entrance at the times noted above, and I have verified that ‎each person entering the event during that time to have shown me proper identification, ‎along with either proof of being fully vaccinated or a negative COVID test taken within ‎‎72 hours of the start of the event.” ‎The event organizer, or their designee, shall forward the signed statement to the Kingdom ‎Seneschal, or their designee, who shall maintain such records in accordance with the standards for ‎retention of waivers.‎‎

8.‎ Kingdom Seneschals shall notify the Society Seneschal where local, state, provincial, or national ‎law supersedes this policy.

‎‎9.‎ This policy shall not apply to Lochac and Drachenwald.‎

COVIDSafe Proof of Fully Vaccinated Status or Negative COVID Test Policy Resolution - SCA.org

Board Resolution – COVIDSafe Proof of Fully Vaccinated Status or Negative COVID Test Policy

Online Education

Other Educational Events

A Master List for finding classes, webinars and other things – https://moas.eastkingdom.org/list-of-online-webinars/?fbclid=IwAR20OE8b6vvYKvmwrqwpule27szarZ7EPV-8R72F1eV2CxcdmOXQhZf9ayk

10/1-10/3 2021 – Daigaku-Ryo: Pan-Asia University = Constantinople to Heiankyō 2021 – October 1, 2021 — October 3, 2021 – http://daigaku-ryou.org/

Other Good Stuff

KWAS – The Known World Arts and Sciences Display is now live! Go to https://sites.google.com/view/kwasdisplay/home and click on “Display Hall” in the upper right corner to see the contributions.

Knowne Worlde Entertainment Guide – KWEG – Entertainment List – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xEZAwCca4IQham3TpxfWnonQscG668mmYgIMA18YZ-E/edit

SCA Iberia put out a whole bunch of videos from their most recent event! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2RmLGx_KiNzoFiM6GAu5Hg/videos

Cookery – Most of this week’s stuff is below in project day and recipes.

There is a page of online period cookbooks! – https://www.angelfire.com/md3/openhearthcooking/aaCookbooks.html?fbclid=IwAR0WbgZVc59MyJJd5xRHDC3OsBB3UsNZhX5-tJhAj598mXM6mUKZ8PandaY

Folger’s Shakespeare Library – Before Farm to Table – This is a series of articles, recipes and papers – https://beforefarmtotable.folger.edu/investigations/

A Tasting History about one of the recipes from An Early Meal! – Viking Blood Bread – Tasting History with Max Miller

Viking Blod Mead available at Curiada: https://www.curiada.com/collections/max-miller?utm_source=Partnership&utm_medium=Max&utm_campaign=Max-Episode-Viking-Blood-Bread
LINKS TO SOURCES**
An Early Meal by Daniel Serra and Hanna Tunberg: https://amzn.to/3DJI19d
Beowulf: https://amzn.to/3jH4P1a
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson: https://amzn.to/2YsbyEc
Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson: https://amzn.to/3BAwtmG

A Mini Royal Feast – Monk’s Modern Medieval Cuisine – What’s on the menu at the wedding of Henry IV and Joanna of Navarre in 1403? – In this video Dr Monk cooks Vyaund Ryal (Dish Royale) which ties all the dishes together.

Christmas Cuskynoles – Monk’s Modern Medieval Cuisine – These delicious medieval Christmas pastries date back to the thirteenth century. Fruity and spicy, they’re not unlike modern mince pies. Follow along with Dr Christopher Monk, medieval cultural historian, as he shows you how he makes them.

Sewing – Moar sampler

Herb Bunch – Thursday evening’s class was short, but on incense resins, where they come from and what kind of plants, also how the various resins are related in scent, texture, etc.

Project Day – Was pretty quiet. Anja went to Moot for the first hour.

Juliana – “Sending you some photos of a new “wig bubble” project. I got to looking at photos of The Canning Jewel (google it). It is an Elizabethan period pendant made of gold, pearls and jewels. I got to wondering if there was a cheap, easy way to copy such fancy stuff. So here are my pendants. (At least the ones that turned out) Maybe you can share at your work party today.” These are awesome!

Ailantha – Had to be out most of the day today. Sorry I missed this today. Not doing much project work this week as we sort, organize, and purge our craft/sewing stockpile.

Isabeau – Today I’m working on additional pattern weights of different sizes. I did 10 squares. So i thought id try less squares to see what i get. Why not, right? I’m trying 5 square. It’ll be a pyramid.

Helen Louise – Hi all, today I’m making a baby quilt from Paula Arndt beautiful fabrics on spoon flower LillyOak, for a professor at the U of O who just had a baby girl. Hubby is out if town, so now I can get really down to finish this off…

She also dropped a set of pix for a 17th century gown for us to comment on.

Arlys – PROJECT DAY PROJECT: the pattern for an Assisi medallion.

Anja worked on her sampler during moot and make pickling broth later, to go over the pickled onions. Some of these will probably show up at the feast since we’re within the 6 month block, already.

Miscellaneous pix

Maren Franks – The gown of Mary of Hapsburg, also referred to as Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Regent of the Netherlands, made between 1520-1530.”Queen Mary’s dress is made of green silk damask. The fabric’s width is 58 cm. The bodice is close-fitting. The shoulder seams are slightly behind the shoulder, and the waistline slants toward the back. The neckline in back is deeply scooped, running straight down to the waist in front. The neckline is trimmed with a 7 cm wide gold brocade band. The waist measurement is 73 cm. The long, tight sleeves are slightly shaped at the shoulder. They’re 52 cm long, 35 cm wide at the top, and 30 cm wide at the bottom. The 19 cm long funnel-shaped cuffs are from the same gold brocade as the neckline trim. The sleeves with the cuffs are nearly fingertip length. The cuffs and neckline trim are lined with rough canvas, the bodice with green wool. The skirt is a full circle, sewn from four full widths of fabric plus two circle segments to complete the width. The resulting circle has a circumference of 780 cm. The circular hole for the waist was placed off-center, such that the skirt’s front length is 107 cm, and the back is 124 cm. The skirt is sewn to the bodice with slight gathers at sides and back. The skirt is lined from the waist to about knee-height with thick white woven wool. The rest of the skirt is lined with thick homespun linen. The hem is finished with a 1.5 cm wide dark green wool strip.” (This strip shows at least partly on the outside.)”The blouse’s front and back are each made of three trapezoidal pieces. The pieces are 40 cm wide at the top, 60 cm at the bottom. They’re attached to each other with 1 cm wide lines of silver embroidery in a blanket stitch. The two sides are widened further by two triangular gores, each 60 cm wide. The three front panels are gathered to a width of 21 cm, forming the front of the neckline. The gathered section is about 6 cm wide [Ed: I think they mean “deep” ie, width of smocking embroidery], secured by geometric satin-stitch embroidery in silver thread. The back sections are also gathered to 21 cm, with embroidery 1 cm narrower than on the front. The long, full sleeves are also assembled from three pieces attached to each other with silver blanket stitch. The sleeves are straight rectangles, 65 cm long, 122 cm wide, with the top sections gathered to 28 cm, and forming the sides of the neckline. The embroidery securing the gathers is only 3 cm wide. The neckline is enclosed in a 3 cm wide band. The wide sleeves are gathered to 24 cm at the wrist, sewn to a 1.5 cm wide cuff. The gathers are decorated with narrow silver embroidery in an interlocking half-circle pattern. The underarm gussets are 25 cm squares. The shirt’s material is a closely woven fine evenweave linen.” Source: Hungarian National Museum

Historic Royal Palaces – Happy birthday, Anne of Cleves! 🎂Famous for being the fourth wife of Henry VIII, Anne was born over five centuries ago on 22 September 1515 in Düsseldorf. Before the pair had even met, Anne became another of Henry’s political pawns, with the king hoping to use a marriage alliance with the Protestant House of Cleves to secure more power for himself in Europe.However, the marriage wasn’t entirely a political decision, as Henry hand-picked Anne from a portrait created by court artist Hans Holbein the Younger in late 1538. After much anticipation, Anne arrived in England the following December, but it certainly wasn’t love at first sight for the soon-to-be-wed couple. Henry quickly rejected the real Anne as she didn’t live up to the promised beauty of her portrait. Henry believed he had been duped by Holbein and his paintbrush! 🎨Despite desperate attempts by Henry and his chief minister Thomas Cromwell to halt the wedding, the unhappy couple were married in January 1540. Struggling with differences of language and culture (not to mention Henry’s intermittent impotence), the pair were unsuited and the marriage was annulled only six months later.Even after the marriage had ended, rumours of her supposed unattractiveness lived on and Anne later became known as the ‘Flanders Mare’ – a fashionable insult of the 17th century.She did, however, receive £4000 a year and property in Kent for her troubles and remained a close friend of the king. Anne was even invited to the family Christmas at Hampton Court Palace where she danced with the new queen, Catherine Howard. Not too bad a result then!Find out more about Anne of Cleves here 👉 bit.ly/hcp-anneofcleves

Music – ℜ𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔡 ℭ𝔬𝔢𝔲𝔯 𝔡𝔢 𝔏𝔦𝔬𝔫 – 𝔐𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔞 𝔐𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔩𝔢 – Ensemble: Alla Francesca
Album: Richard Cœur De Lion
Video: (read the info) http://www.facebook.com/musicamedievale

The ensemble “Alla Francesca” in this work performs music from the time of Richard the Lionheart, including the famous “Ja Nuns Hons Pris”, written by Riccardo himself during his imprisonment in Dürnstein Castle. In this video I have selected some photos of three very important castles in the life of Richard I of England: the first (which appears from 0:00 to 35:54) is the famous Château-Gaillard, the historic and majestic fortress built by Riccardo between 1196-1198, during the war against the king of France Philippe Auguste; the second castle (from minute 35:54 to 45:00) is that of Dürnstein, where Richard was imprisoned on his return from the third crusade. Finally, from minute 45:00 to 51:14, there is Châlus Chabrol, a fortress that Richard besieged in 1199 and where he died for an arrow shot from the walls while the king supervised the siege. Richard’s bowels are now buried right in the chapel of Châlus Chabrol, his heart is in Rouen while his body rests in the abbey of Fontevrault together with those of his parents, Henri II and Aliénor d’Aquitaine inside a splendid effigy from which his face can be clearly distinguished and that in this video I left in transparency under all the photographs as if he were a king who finally rests after a life of battles, songs, intrigues …
The ensemble “Alla Francesca” has chosen the stupendous abbey of Fontevrault to record this splendid musical work dedicated to Riccardo; I am thrilled to know that the echoes of these melodies, certainly familiar to the king, have resounded among the vaults of Fontevrault once again, 797 years after Riccardo’s death, right next to him.
PS: the miniature that appears at the end I found it instead from a manuscript (circa 13th century) and there is represented King Richard during his imprisonment in Dürnstein and next to him the moment of his death, pierced by an arrow, in Châlus Chabrol.

1 Lai Du Chèvrefeuille – Marie de France/Anonymous
2 L’Autrier M’En Aloi – Anonymous
3 Ja Nuns Hons Pris – Richard Cœur-De-Lion
4 Chanterai Por Mon Coraige – Guiot De Dijon
5 Li Nouviautz Tanz – Chastelain De Couci
6 Vocis Tripudio – Anonymous
7 A Vous, Amours – Chastelain De Couci
8 Canticum Exercuit / Canticum Letitie – Anonymous
9 Bien Me Deüsse Targier – Conon De Béthune
10 Quant Voi La Flour Boutener – Gace Brulé
11 Redit Etas Aurea – Anonymous
12 Christus Patris Gratie / Vineam Meam Plantavi / Offerat Ecclesia – Anonymous
13 Can Vei La Lauzeta – Bernart de Ventadorn
14 Fortz Chausa Est – Gaucelm Faidit
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Alla Francesca: Brigitte Lesne, Emmanuel Bonnardot, Pierre Hamon, Raphaël Boulay