~Welcome To My Office~

This is my own office where I share many things just for those are Newcomers to Medieval and Renaissance re-creation,recreation, and re-enactment. I call this my office for I have viewed floor plans for a couple of period manors and on one such floor plan there was a room labeled "chatelaine's office."

I love newcomers - they are a great source of knowledge, enthusiasm, and ideas.  I have often learned from them.

It is my wish to dedicate a good portion of this site to help newcomers become established in this hobby. Although written while still a member of the SCA, I believe that it still has some validity or value for other historical re-creation or re-enactment group and can be applied in part at least. If that, indeed, is not exactly the case I then will stand corrected.

Herein find links for advice articles that I wrote on different topics such as clothing, personas, and general stuff. A lot of the advice herein is stuff that I have learned from my many years in the SCA, useful stuff which I've gleaned from many people over the years, from my own questions asked, questions asked on other sites,from my own experience, and also from many answers asked over e-mail lists.  You will also find here some good links that are useful for a variety subjects that would be most helpful to my favorite people, newcomers.

I will try and change articles out every now and then so you might want to check back and see what's new.  The links were all good and working as of June, 2006 which was when I last checked them.  Another note - many links are SCA specific.  There are links that I acquired while I was still a member of that organization.  I believe many of the sites hold valid and good information that could be adapted or modified to the particular group or groups in which you participate.

 
ADVICE ~ my favorite bits that I usually give to newcomers.
  	First Step - warning: only a general basic guideline
	Second Step
	More Advice

ARTICLES - Newcomer's Corner column articles 
	Greetings
  	Getting Involved & Helping Out
  	How To Think On This Hobby . . . or 'Perspective'
  	Two "Short Treatises" ~ 
		Consideration, Thoughtfulness, & Courtesy
  		The Magic of the Society

PERSONAS

  

  MISCELLANEOUS USEFUL LINKS ~   

PERIOD WOMEN'S STUDIES  -- Links worked as of 06/17/06.

An Image Gallery of Women In Costumes - Good for islamic or middle eastern persona women's studies. - searching  .  .  .
Dominion & Domination of the Gentle Sex: The Lives of Medieval Women
Women in Medieval Guilds - A series of essays by R. G. Ferrell 
Women and History  - A long list of historical links.
Medieval Women Writers
Google Listing of Medieval Women Websites
Medieval Guilds and Craft Productions
Women in Medieval Times
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
Women in Ancient and Medieval Times
Medieval Women Interactice Exploration Mainpage - a really cool, fun and awesome site.

CULTURAL & PERSONA LINKS  - Links good as of 06/23/06.
Angelcynn - Anglo Saxon Living History 400-900 A.D.
A Short Treatise on Anglo-Norman Personal Names
Cartographic Images Home Page - Early medieval maps 
Cemetery Culture: City of the Silent
Eachna's 5th Century Irish-Celtic Re-Enactments Page 
Early Medieval Cover Page - Cartography
Elizabeth R
Focal an Lae - The Word of the Day in Irish
Flavii Magistri Pagina Domestica Classica Lemoyensis
Florio's 1611 Italian/English Dictionary
Fotevikens Museum med Vikingareservatet
Great Britian
Islamic Medical Manuscripts
Kiervan Rus
La Maisnie Web Page 	This site is devoted to Late 15th Century Living in mainstream Europe. 
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge
Life in Elizabethan England: Language - Idiomatic Indiosynchracies
Linguist List - Web Resource Listings
Life in Tudor England
Medieval Lithunia
Medieval Names Archive - Good place to start looking for a name for your persona.
Medieval Names Galleria
Medieval Poland: an Introduction
Miscellaneous Medieval Name Articles
Modar's Mongol Page
Mongolian Resource Page
Myths and Legends - frames 
Nancy's Celtic Award Page - a page with primarily Irish and Scottish links.
NetSERF: Medieval Culture
Pedro's Dictionaeries - mostly language dictionaries with some specialized ones and a thesaurus or two.
Ren Faire: Elizabethan Accents
Research Questions for Developing a Persona - a list of questions to use guide you in your research or to score your persona.
Resources for Medieval & Renaissance Spain
Robert Gunn's Scottish, Celtic & Medieval History Online - hand coded site with clunky feel, some links, and a few short articles.
Roman Persona - Armamentarivm: Beginner's Guide
SIG Bibliography - book listing of sources for Russian, Polish, Rumanian & Other histories
Scottish Gaelic Learners' Materials Online 
Scottish Medieval Bibliography - Languages - Scottish, Gaelic, Irish, Old Englsh, etc. Lan
Scottish Names Resources - some useful information here; SCA origin
Speaking Forsoothly - #1 written in the scope of the SCA but still nice, methinks.
Speaking Forsoothly - #2 another article of SCA scope,  Brief.
Speaking Forsoothly - #3 longer SCA article using 4 'easy' steps directed at Newcomers.
Stefan's Florilegium - an article on an easy way to come up with an SCA persona.  Perhaps adaptable to other groups?
Teacher Oz's Gaelic and Celtic Sites List
The Medieval Centre, Denmark - Danish site devoted to the Middle Ages.  Some cool stuff in the name of re-enactment here.
The Patrin Web Journal - Roma (Gypsies) - covers topics related to the Romany up to the present day.
VIKINGS: The North Atlantic Saga
Viking Gallery
Wales in the 14th Century
Welcome to Viking Heritage
ZNAN'STOVO - Medieval Hungary Page - down at present

Florio's 1611 Italian/English Dictionary

GENERAL USEFUL LINKS -- Links good as of 07/08/06 

Atlantian Chatelaine's Page
Buðgarðr
Byzantine and Medieval Studies Links
Cariadoc's Miscellany
Changes to FAQ Section 3.3 (Web Resources)
Chatelaine's Corner
Global Access to Educational Sources - The Middle School Cybrary and Homework Helper
Ken's WebSampler: Middle Ages & Renaissance
Labyrinth Home Page
Medieval and Renaissance Fact and Fiction
MEDIEVAL PAVILION RESOURCES
Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction
Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction
Medieval Studies Theme
Medieval World: Merchant Links
Medieval, Renaissance,Reformation: Western Civilization, Act II
Medievalist: Medieval and Renaissance Living History
MiddleAges
Middle Ages Resources at Questia - The Online Library of Books and Journals
Mina Rees Library - Medieval Studies
Modar
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
Newcomer's Guild - Caid's Kingdom Chatelaine's site.  Clean and user friendly site, a good place to begin for newcomers.
On Pavilion Etiquette
Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends
ORB -Medieval English urban history
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
PACSCL -- The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Ravensgard SCA Homepage - nice links on this page
SCA Newcomers
Sir Clisto's Tome of Adventure and Knowledge - links to his Table of Contents page.  Veritable giant warehouse of links.  One of my favorites.
Smithsonian Institution
Stefan's Florilegium Archive
The Compleat Anachronist Index of Issues
The Labyrinth
The Mabry Medieval Interests Page
The Middle AgesTrust Web Site Locator
The Tome
TheHistoryNet at About.com: Where History Lives on the Web
TheHistoryNet.com
Welcome to the Current Middle Ages
WWW-VL Medieval Europe
WWWVL The World Wide Virtual Library: History Index
WELCOME TRAVELER or THE MAP ROOM

This page and all other pages found herein on this site were designed by Alys de Trois Rivieres herself. 
As such they are maintained and updated by her as time allows.  Her hand last touched this page on July 08, 2006.