Articles to provide instruction in various fields of Medieval arts or for Medieval re-creationists, by people with a passion for their subject.
This is part of The Scholar's Garret

Opusculi (little books)

Documentation for A&S Competition: One person's opinion
Notes and examples for artists who intend to enter items in the "Northern Lights Arts and Sciences Pentathelon", written by a long-time judge.
Green Eggs and Hosen
People are sometimes look on as suspect because of bizarre or non-standard clothes. Does this sound like anyone we know? (Note: this is not yet the final version. Thans to Gilbert for allowing me to publish this draft.)
A Selection of Dental Hygiene and Mouthwash Products
This article presents a number of period dental hygiene methods and products, with the some general comments on their production, safety and effectiveness.
Of perspective and parallax: Extracting information from photographs
Photographs contain a lot of hidden information, if you only know how to extract it. This article is about how to get implied measurements from photos of objects that have reasonably identical, parallel faces.
Research for the utter novice: Advice from a fellow incompetent
If you think you have no idea how to research, welcome to the club!
Three Hundred Viking Names from the Sagas
This is not a comprehensive list of all period Norse names, but it is, instead, a tiny sampling of the names found in the Norse and Icelandic Sagas.

While the primary audience for the material on this page is for historical re-enactors and re-creationists of the Middle Ages (such as members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, the Kingdom of Acre, et. al.), it is not sponsored by nor affialiated with any of them and does not speak for them.

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