East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Pennsic 43 will take place July 25, 2014 – August 10, 2014 Reservations: Online prepaid registration will be available until Monday, June 16th 2014 11:59pm EDT. Online unpaid registration will be available until Friday, July 11th 2014 11:59pm EDT. The refund policy has changed. The cut-off date for requesting a refund is Monday, June 23rd …
Attending the Medieval Makers Faire? Here is information about the classes and the food to help plan your day.
If you haven’t preregistered yet and would like to know about availability of the feast, contact Madelaine de Mortaign The autocrats expect seats for the feast may still be available at the door. Dayboard will be available at the door for $3 but can be included in your preregistration. The feast is being cooked by Mistress Anastasia and the courses are listed below. Dayboard is being cooked by Lady Zsuzsy.
Both Dayboard and the Feast are also being run as classes for people who want to learn more about how an event kitchen works. Other classes include ironworking, fiber arts, glass bead making, performance arts and a wide variety of other options. A complete schedule is up on the website and so are the class descriptions. Royal Court will follow the classes. More information about the event is available at its website or the listing on the East Kingdom website.
Order of Service for A Faire Feast in Midwinter at Maker’s Faire
(Please note: While we will do our very best to adhere to this menu, we reserve the right to change the menu at any time subject to the availablity of ingredients.)
Questions: Contact Baroness Anastasia (more…)
A new Sanction Guide was passed by the SCA’s Board of Directors at their meeting on January 18th and is now available online. The guide covers several kinds of sanctions on both a kingdom and society level. The fifty-nine page document includes an investigator’s guide, flowcharts, checklists and template letters. An updated version of Corpora …
At Curia it was announced that the long awaited Order of Precedence website overhaul was nearing completion, and was now online. The Gazette contacted Master Justin du Coeur, who oversaw the program, and he provided the following:
The new Eastrealm Order of Precedence is now available online! You can access it here
From Lady Raffaella Mascolo, EK Webminister / Web Polling Minister Please be advised that the Laurel and Maunche pollings will be closing at 11:59 PM on February 24. All other pollings will be closing at 11:59 PM on February 10, 2014.
When we were asked to help publicize an event held in Montreal, the Gazette thought we would give our primarily English speaking readers a different experience. Below you will find the event announcement for Courtyard Carousing at our Baronial Investiture Anniversary in the Barony of L’ile du Dragon Dormant printed with the French paragraphs followed by English translations. Brush off your high school French and experience the other side of the linguistic challenges of a bilingual kingdom.
Ce sera un évènement festif tout au long de la journée, avec une ambiance de festival, pleine de sons, d’odeurs et d’imageries, digne d’une véritable cour médiévale. Un délicieux festin sera servi par une équipe de quatre cuisiniers, alors que nous célébrons ensemble une autre année dans la Baronnie de l’Ile du Dragon Dormant.
This event is an all day festival, full of the sounds and smells and sights of a true medieval courtyard. A delicious feast will be served by a staff of 4 head cooks, whilst during the day we all make merry together and celebrate another year in the Barony of Ile du Dragon Dormant.
Greetings from the Brigantia Principal Herald of the Kingdom of the East. At Curia on Jan 26th in Stonemarche it was proposed by Baron Rowen H.E. to their Majesties and I to eliminate the requirement for Shires to have a Herald. The reasoning was, when the requirement was added in January 2002, that having …
The deadline is fast approaching for the artisans and scientists of the East to register for the King’s and Queen’s Arts and Sciences Competition. All good gentles must pre-register by February 7 if they intend to compete. Already artisans from all corners of the Kingdom have indicated that they will be coming with their best …
An update from the autocrat, Mistress Alyane: The sixteenth annual Dancing Fox will include a Tudor Banquet by Lady Ailionora inghaean Ronain. You may have read her two recent articles on the Tudor Banquet in Ars Scientia Orientalis. Now you can eat her words! Additionally the event will feature music from the Bhakaili Branslers and dance instruction from …
The following article was written by Master Ulric von der Insel and is published here as part of the Gazette’s ongoing “How to…” series.
There’s a handy tool that the current military uses regularly to scope out the lay of the land called Google Earth. It’s an easy download that gives a layered look at the globe. Those of us using it have enjoyed the pictures that people upload of the places across the Earth as they appear in uploaded photos. So how can we use this to help us out with our medieval selves? The two biggest ways are by seeing the shape of the land and by seeing the sights in the places.
I should make a big caveat right now, that with the change of sea levels and the silting of rivers and all, that the lay of the land isn’t exactly what it used to be. That’s okay – we’re not using Google Earth as documentation, just as a starting point for further persona story research (rather like Wikipedia, eh? Use cautiously!)
Maybe an example would be appropriate at this moment. We fly to the Tyrolean Alps south of Munich and there we are. Type the place name “Innsbruck, Austria” into the search box in the upper left. Modern-day, it’s a cosmopolitan center with autobahns zipping by. But look at the lay of the land: mountains around a sheltered valley and the Inn River. Follow the road south, and you get to see the Brenner Pass to Milan and Venice. Follow the road northeast and you get to Munich. This was a major European artery of traffic since the Neolithic Age! Zoom right into the mountains to appreciate what it would take to travel this route with a wagon or a caravan of wagons laden with goodies for the market. This gives you a feel for scale that you can’t get from text alone.