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Compleat Anachronist   {SCA Publication)

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This series is not complete and we will gladly accept any donations to complete it.
Some of the Compleat Anachronist have been posted online, if I can find it I will post the link here.

 

Compleat Anachronist #60; March 1992;  "Alcoholic Drinks of the Middle Ages"
By Marc Shapiro     http://mysite.verizon.net/mshapiro_42/calcohol.html    
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Includes history, production, and recipes for making wine, mead, beer, distilled spirits, liqueurs,
cordials, and vinegars.

 

Compleat Anachronist #61; May 1992; "An Encheiridion: The Education Of A Scribe"   
by Melinda Sherbring
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Calligraphy, Illumination, Heraldry.

 

Compleat Anachronist #64;  Nov. 1992;    "Scandinavian Textiles"
 by Cathy Chato, Terry A. Broberg-Swangin& Dorian L. Patkus                                         
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Scandinavian Costume, Textiles, Viking Costume, Tablet Weaving,                   

 

Compleat Anachronist #65; January 1993;  "A Japanese Miscellany"
By Anthony J. Bryant   http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/index.html
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Brief History of Japan, Names, Titles and Address, Heraldry, Campsite, the "Ninja" Thing, Holding Court, Swords, Horse Furniture, Cards and Games, Poetry, Books, Tents, Flags,  

 

Compleat Anachronist #67; May 1993; "Ars Poetica Societatis"
by Elizabeth Morris and Terry Sheehan, Editors                                                          
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A basic guide to poetics providing both Period and Society examples               

 

Compleat Anachronist #68; July 1993; "Domestic Lighting: Candles, Lamps, and Torches in History" by Dennis R. Sherman ca-68.jpg (43347 bytes)
An exploration of the various sources of light and how fashion and styles have changed

  

Compleat Anachronist #69; September 1993; "The Development of the Coat of Plates"
by Michael S. Lacy
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An introduction into the development of the coat of plates and the brigandine in the
13th, 14th, and 15th centuries

    

Compleat Anachronist #71; January 1994;    "Period Pastimes: Being a Timeline of Games With Instructions and Commentary on Selected Games Played in Medieval Europe"
by Patrick J. Smith
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Chess, Card Games, Table Games, Miscellaneous Games

   

Compleat Anachronist #72; March 1994;    "A'ineh: Oriental Mirror Armour"
by David Anthony Counts
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Pectoral Plate in Classical Times; Central Asian A'ineh c 700-c 1300; Nepalese Char-Aina;
Indo-Chinese Chilta Hazar Masha; Turko-Russian Korazin or Krug; Indo-Persian Char-Aina; SCA Applications

 

Compleat Anachronist #74; July 1994;    "Dance: The Playbeau Interview ca-74.jpg (95116 bytes)
A Dialogue Concerning the History of Various European Social Dances"
by Paul Rochefort

   

Compleat Anachronist #75; September 1994; "Vestarios: Clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire" by Donna Bowers ca-75.jpg (53373 bytes)
Men's Clothing, Women's Clothing, and Constructing Byzantine Clothing

 

Compleat Anachronist #76; November 1994;   "A Dreamer's Travels"
by Ioseph of Locksley. O.L., O.P.   http://members.tripod.com/~whitebard/chapter0.htm
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Being the Adventures of a Pilgrim In the Current Middle Ages Related as an Allegorical Tale In the Style of the Time Wherein He Meets Many Curious Folk And Learns Wherein Lies The Dream Thru Divers Curious Adventures and Entertaining Travels In an Enchanted Country

     

Compleat Anachronist #77;  January 1995; "Medieval Baskets"
by The Honorable Lady Elfwyn de Barfeur
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Compleat Anachronist #78; March 1995; "Selected Games of a Non-European Origin: That Contemporary with the Medieval Period of European Civilization"
by Lord Brusten de Bearsul
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Together with a supplement to the Timeline of Games

  

Compleat Anachronist #79; May 1995;   "From the Kitchens of Castle Gillywick
Willihilda, the Kitchen Wench" by Lady Therica Pembroke of Stonegate O.L.
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Medieval recipes with a story attached to each one

 

Compleat Anachronist #80; July 1995; "Things to Wear, Clothing of the Heian Period Japan"
By Fujiwara no Aoi
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Japanese clothing for men and women

 

Compleat Anachronist #81; July 1995; "Period Metrology: A Study of Measurement, Part I"
by Master Grant  Graeme de Menteith O.L.
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Compleat Anachronist #82; November 1995; "Period Metrology: A Study of Measurement, Part II" by Master Grant  Graeme de Menteith O.L. ca-82.jpg (109494 bytes)
 

  

Compleat Anachronist #91; May 1997; "Early Child Ballads"
by Dani Zweig    http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/early_child/
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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads; Child Ballads for SCA Performance

 

Compleat Anachronist #93; September 1997;   " Period Chronology"
by Master Grant Graeme de Menteith  O.L.
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Science of Measuring Time

 

Compleat Anachronist #99;  September 1998;   "Life in Thirteenth Century Novgorod"  by Gregory William Frux    http://www.geocities.com/ilyana7/novgorod/toc.html                     ca-99.jpg (93950 bytes)
Russian; History of Rus', Lord Novgorod the Great, # Domestic Architecture, Food, Clothing,
Agriculture and Hunting, Government and Law, Women and Class Structure, Warfare, Trade, Art, Music, Royalty and Leaders

  

Compleat Anachronist #100; November 1998;   "A Veiled Reference"  
by Lisa Ford, Theresa Sherman, and Melinda Sherbring
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Medieval and Renaissance Veils

    

Compleat Anachronist #102; March 1999;   "French Food in the Renaissance: A Survey of Recipes from the 14th to the 17th Centuries"
by Maitresse Anne-Marie d'Ailleurs
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Compleat Anachronist #103; May 1999   "The Gaelic Truibas: A brief history of and construction techniques for Medieval Irish Pants"
by Mistress Lughbec ni Eoin
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Compleat Anachronist #107; January 2000; "The Art of Anglo-Norman Warfare, 1066-1181"   
by Pan Volodymyr Blahuciak
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Compleat Anachronist #108; July 2000;    "Fingerloop Braids"
by Mistress Rhiannon y Bwa and Lady Azza al-Shirazi
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Basic Braiding Instruction; Braid Design and Finishing; Instructions for Producing Aglets, Points
and Eyelets; and Braid Patterns.

  

Compleat Anachronist #109; October 2000; "The Colorful Cook"                                                 
by Mistress Sincgiefu Waerfaest and Dame Alys Katherine
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Animal-, plant-, and mineral-based coloring agents; the candying process; and comfits

    

Compleat Anachronist #112; July 2001; "Yours Whilst Life Swayeth in Mine Inward Parts"          
by Lady Ellianora Mathews
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Letters in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance

  

Compleat Anachronist #115; April 2002; "Wrought with Flowers of Black Silk
by Prudence Catesby
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An in-depth exploration of a popular style of blackwork embroidery fashionable in the late 16th century, with outlines and patterns based on period examples

    

Compleat Anachronist #116; July 2002; "I See By Your Outfit: Order Robes, Historical and Modern"
by Baroness Eowyn Amberdrake
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Compleat Anachronist #121; Autumn 2003; "European Woodworking Tools"
by Baron Ranulf of Waterford
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Historical Development; Tool Making; The Tools; Tool Prices in Medieval England; Making a Chest; Woodworker's Tool Kits

  

Compleat Anachronist #122; January 2004; "Falconry"
by Duncan  Blackwater
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Falconry in Medieval Life; Hawks Used; Hawk Furniture; Daily and Care and Management; Game Hawking; etc

   

Compleat Anachronist #128; Summer 2005; "A Polish Miscellany"
By Pan Zygmunt Nadratowski, Maria Piekneplotno, and Paul Wickenden of Thanet
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Portraying a Polish Hussar in Current Middle Ages; Reconstructing a Zupan; Textiles in the Middle Ages; A Comparison of Western European Feudalism and Polish Governing Structure